Hi, just a note on the ARAI acronym if used as such. That acronym usually refers to: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA aka https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ .
Cheers Daniel On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Arthur Berezin <art...@gigaspaces.com> wrote: > Hi All > > > I would like to propose ARIA TOSCA to be an Apache Incubator Project. > > ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development > Kit(SDK) and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and > Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions which > will help in driving adoption of TOSCA, and help in market consolidation > around TOSCA based Orchestration. > > One of the key attributes of the TOSCA specification by OASIS is that it is > a vendor neutral and technology agnostic specification, allowing to > describe applications and then to orchestrate them using various > technologies of choice, such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, OpenStack, VMware, > Puppet, Ansible Chef, etc’. The reality is such that TOSCA is a complex > specification,making software vendors trying to implement the specification > make implementation decisions, ending up with different and incompatible > implementations, creating even more market segmentation instead of > consolidating around a single standard for orchestration. > > ARIA a vendor neutral and technology agnostic(via plugins mechanism) > reference implementation of the TOSCA specification. It is an open source > python library that helps orchestrators and management tools in developing > TOSCA enabled solutions. ARIA aims to become the main reference > implementation of the OASIS TOSCA(Topology and Orchestration Specification > for Cloud Applications) specification for orchestrating cloud applications. > > ARIA TOSCA targets NFV Orchestration and Hybrid/Multi Cloud orchestration > as main use-cases it solves. > > ARIA can be executed via CLI to orchestrate application templates, > additionally it allows embedding its python library for creating TOSCA > compatible services, and includes rich set of plugins for Iaas > orchestration, such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, OpenStack and VMWare; It > Includes plugins for Container orchestration, with Docker and Kubernetes > plugins, configuration management tools(Puppet,Chef, Ansible) and a rich > API that allows to create plugins for any new technology. > > ARIA also serves as a codebase that allows to test the TOSCA specification, > and experiment with new approaches of modeling and orchestration of > applications, providing feedback and real world use cases OASIS to further > refine and advance the standard specification. > > Please find the full project proposal here: > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AriaProposal > > *Champion:* > Suneel Marthi > > *Nominated Mentors* > Jakob Homan > John D. Ament > Suneel Marthi > > > > > Thank You, > Arthur Berezin >
