Hi all,
I would like to raise attention to 2 features which are pending 4.11, which received great appreciation from some of you and which from Nuage perspective we see great interest to from large operators also. They are : - Physical networking migration, or : Migrate networks to a new physical network Jira : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-10024 Design doc : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Physical+Networking+Migration PR : https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2259 - Config Drive support : Jira : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9813 Design doc : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9813 PR : https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2097 I would like to emphasis first that both features are generic solutions, not tight to any SDN solution whatsoever. Regarding network migration support : to anyone interested in this capability, please review the design doc and/or the PR. The more buy-in we get to this large amount of work we spent to this, the more appraisal you give to the guys who spent the work. We hope to get this PR merged in before end of the year. Regarding config drive support : as already discussed in the Miami Collaboration conference in May, this PR gives you fully standard cloud-init support using the OpenStack configdrive datasource provider and it works like a charm. We received very positive feedback to this. There has been discussion about the storage strategy though and people voted for storing the iso's at primary storage rather than at secondary storage. There has been further work spent on this by Frank Maximus and there has been some review of that but i am not sure we still want to include that change still in 4.11. Frankly my proposal would be we take an incremental approach and start larger validation cycles for the outstanding PR and approach further evolution of it in the next release cycle. Open to your feedback. In any case I would find it a missed opportunity if config drive would eventually not find its way into 4.11 at all. Again, we see great interest in this. Potentially we could declare it as experimental support, to be enabled via an advanced setting - just an idea. In that way more people get can a sense of how it works and provide feedback. Another item to notice is that as Nuage team does not have XenServer deployments, we have no facility to verify the PR with XenServer. Helping out on that would be appreciated also. Thanks, Kris
