Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > On Dec 6, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Georgy Okrokvertskhov > <gokrokvertsk...@mirantis.com <mailto:gokrokvertsk...@mirantis.com>> wrote: > >> I am really inspired by this thread. Frankly saying, Glance for Murano >> was a kind of sacred entity, as it is a service with a long history in >> OpenStack. We even did not think in the direction of changing Glance. >> Spending a night with these ideas, I am kind of having a dream about >> unified catalog where the full range of different entities are >> presented. Just imagine that we have everything as first class >> citizens of catalog treated equally: single VM (image), Heat template >> (fixed number of VMs\ autoscaling groups), Murano Application >> (generated Heat templates), Solum assemblies >> >> Projects like Solum will highly benefit from this catalog as it can >> use all varieties of VM configurations talking with one service. >> This catalog will be able not just list all possible deployable >> entities but can be also a registry for already deployed >> configurations. This is perfectly aligned with the goal for catalog to >> be a kind of market place which provides billing information too. >> >> OpenStack users also will benefit from this as they will have the >> unified approach for manage deployments and deployable entities. >> >> I doubt that it could be done by a single team. But if all teams join >> this effort we can do this. From my perspective, this could be a part >> of Glance program and it is not necessary to add a new program for >> that. As it was mentioned earlier in this thread an idea of market >> place for images in Glance was here for some time. I think we can >> extend it to the idea of creating a marketplace for a deployable >> entity regardless of the way of deployment. As Glance is a core >> project which means it always exist in OpenStack deployment it makes >> sense to as a central catalog for everything. > > +1
+1 too. I don't think that Glance is collapsing under its current complexity yet, so extending Glance to a general catalog service that can serve more than just reference VM images makes sense IMHO. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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