Below. On 2/11/11 2:30 PM, "Scott Moser" <smo...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > >> Agreed. By default lets put things into nova because it makes >> development and visibility much easier. As eric mentioned, we can >> always break it out later. > >The stability of the API for communication between the hypervisor platform >and an instance is very important. The ability to quickly change it >should not be the primary reason that you decide where to land the code. > >Once you're past the immediate bringup, you're going to need to maintain >backward compatibility. You'll have images running on openstack >installations that have old versions of the agent, and no real option to >modify them. You need to get this right, and minimal is better. One of the features of the agent is to return features is knows about and return a 'not implemented' if it gets a request it can't complete. Another feature of the agent is to be passed an option to update itself, given a url and a md5 hash. > >The separation would make you think about things more. Ie, with the >project internal, you'll have basically an internal api, that can be >changed at will. With it external, you'll be relying on your published >API to be somewhat stable. > >I suspect that I will lose this argument, and I can't pretend that I have >much grounds for complaint as I've not spoken about anything else. This >is something I belive Amazon did very well. Other than the fact that >their metadata service really relies on dhcp, its is entirely sufficient, >and *very* minimal. > >Scott > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
