Hi Matt, It is not about identity federation (which is handled in Keystone), this is about resource federation across clouds, Nova resources are one of them.
I don't know much about Nova cells right now, I will try to understand it soon. Thanks, Arvind -----Original Message----- From: Matt Riedemann [mailto:mrie...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 2:30 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Inter cloud resource federation [Alliance] On 7/9/2014 12:33 PM, Tiwari, Arvind wrote: > Hi All, > > I am investigating on inter cloud resource federation across OS based > cloud deployments, this is needed to support multi regions, cloud > bursting, VPC and more use cases. I came up with a design (link below) > which advocate a new service (a.k.a. Alliance), this service sits > close to Keystone and help abstracting all the inter cloud concerns > from Keystone. This service will be abstracted from end users and > there won't be any direct interactions between user and Alliance > service. Keystone will be delegating all inter cloud concerns to Alliance. > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Inter_Cloud_Resource_Federation > > Apart from basic resource federation use cases, Alliance service will > add following features > > 1.UUID token support across cloud > > 2.PKI Token support > > 3.Inter Cloud Token Validation > > 4.Inter Cloud Communication to allow > > *Region/endpoint Discovery > > *Service Discovery > > *Remote Resource Provisioning > > 5.Resource Access Across Clouds > > 6.SSO Across Cloud > > 7.SSOut Across Cloud (or Inter Cloud Token Revocation) > > 8.Notification to propagate meter info, resource de-provisioning .... > > I would appreciate if you guys take a look and share your perspective. > I am open to any questions, suggestions, discussions on the same. > > Thanks for your time, > > Arvind > > *Please excuse any typographical error.*** > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > Is this only identity (keystone) are other things like booting instances in nova from public/private clouds which are abstracted from the client, and if so have you heard of nova-cells? -- Thanks, Matt Riedemann _______________________________________________ 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
