On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Between recent IRC meetings and the mid-cycle operators meetup, we've > heard things ranging from "is the SDK project still around" to "I > can't wait for this." I'm Brian Curtin from Rackspace and I'd like to > tell you what the python-openstacksdk [0][1] project has been up to > lately. > > After initial discussions, meetings [2], and a coordination session in > Atlanta, a group of us decided to kick off a project to offer a > complete Software Development Kit for those creating and building on > top of OpenStack. This project aims to offer a one-stop-shop to > interact with all of the parts of an OpenStack cloud, either writing > code against a consistent set of APIs, or by using command line tools > implemented on those APIs [3], with concise documentation and examples > that end-users can leverage. > > From a vendor perspective, it doesn't make sense for all of us to have > our own SDKs written against the same APIs. Additionally, every > service having their own client/CLI presents a fragmented view to > consumers and introduces difficulties once users move beyond > involvement with one or two services. Beyond the varying dependencies > and the sheer number of moving parts involved, user experience is not > as welcoming and great as it should be. > > We first built transport and session layers based on python-requests > and Jamie Lennox's Keystone client authentication plugins (minus > compatibility cruft). The service resources are represented in a base > resource class, and we've implemented resources for interacting with > Identity, Object-Store, Compute, Image, Database, Network, and > Orchestration APIs. Expanding or adding support for new services is > straightforward, but we're thinking about the rest of the picture > before building out too far. > > This resource layer may be slightly raw if you're looking at it as a > consumer, and not likely what you'd want in a full scale application. > Now that we have these resources exposed to work with, we're looking > upward to think about how an end-user would want to interact with a > service. We're also moving downward and looking at what we want to > provide to command line interfaces, such as easier access to the > JSON/dicts (as prodded by Dean :). > > Overall, we're moving along nicely. While we're thinking about these > high-level/end-user views, I'd love to know if anyone has any thoughts > there. For example, what would the ideal interface to your favorite > service look like? As things are hacked out, we'll share them and > gather as much input as we can from this community as well as the > users. > > If you're interested in getting involved or have any questions or > comments, we meet on Tuesdays at 1900 UTC in #openstack-meeting-3, and > all of us hang out in #openstack-sdks on Freenode. > > As for who's involved, we're on stackalytics [4], but recently it has > been Terry Howe (HP), Jamie Lennox (Red Hat), Dean Troyer (Nebula), > Steve Lewis (Rackspace), and myself. > > Thanks for your time > > > [0] https://github.com/stackforge/python-openstacksdk > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDK-Development/PythonOpenStackSDK > [2] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/python_openstacksdk/2014/ > [3] OpenStackClient is planning to switch to using the Python SDK > after the interfaces have stabilized. > [4] > http://stackalytics.com/?project_type=stackforge&module=python-openstacksdk&release=all
I’m glad to hear the project is still moving along — I didn’t mean to give the impression that it might not be, just that I hadn’t been able to follow as closely as I’d liked so I wasn’t sure where things stood. I hope to be more involved for Kilo. Doug > > _______________________________________________ > 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
