On 12/06/2013 03:45 PM, Dmitry Mescheryakov wrote: > Hello all, > > We would like to push further the discussion on unified guest agent. You > may find the details of our proposal at [1]. > > Also let me clarify why we started this conversation. Savanna currently > utilizes SSH to install/configure Hadoop on VMs. We were happy with that > approach until recently we realized that in many OpenStack deployments > VMs are not accessible from controller. That brought us to idea to use > guest agent for VM configuration instead. That approach is already used > by Trove, Murano and Heat and we can do the same. > > Uniting the efforts on a single guest agent brings a couple advantages: > 1. Code reuse across several projects. > 2. Simplified deployment of OpenStack. Guest agent requires additional > facilities for transport like message queue or something similar. > Sharing agent means projects can share transport/config and hence ease > life of deployers. > > We see it is a library and we think that Oslo is a good place for it. > > Naturally, since this is going to be a _unified_ agent we seek input > from all interested parties.
It might be worth while to consider building from the Rackspace guest agents for linux [2] and windows [3]. Perhaps get them moved over to stackforge and scrubbed? These are geared towards Xen, but that would be a good first step in making the HV-Guest pipe configurable. [2] https://github.com/rackerlabs/openstack-guest-agents-unix [3] https://github.com/rackerlabs/openstack-guest-agents-windows-xenserver -S > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/UnifiedGuestAgent > > Thanks, > > Dmitry > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
