Jesse, Thank you for quick answer and interesting information. Personally I like the idea of multiple projects as ecosystem around OpenStack core.
-- Best regards, Oleg Gelbukh Mirantis Inc. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Jesse Andrews <anotherje...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Oleg, > > NOTE: this is my opinion - I do not speak for all of OpenStack! > > While our focus is on a successful Essex, the RCB team has started > thinking about Folsom. Our current thoughts is focusing on enabling > an eco-system **around** core. OpenStack shouldn't try to be IaaS, > PaaS and SaaS - instead a solid base to build these other systems on. > [1] > > OpenStack is about "Essential Infrastructure Services" (currently > compute, storage, network) and supporting tools/apis/docs. > Determining if LB is considered Infrastructure (vs. platform) and if > it is Essential (a fuzzy word - what is essential to one isn't > essential to another) > > That said - regardless of whether Atlas land in core [2], my team wants to > add: > > * documentation/tutorials/examples about how to add a new (iaas or > paas) services to a cloud > * simple integration of LB service (for instance an optional devstack > component). > * an opensource backend for the LB service (haproxy, pound, ...) > > The thought is that an entire eco-system of components that plug into > a cloud is more powerful than having OpenStack "choose winners" that > become "core". [3] > > I look forward to conversations about LBaaS and the definition of > OpenStack. > > Jesse Andrews > Rackspace Cloud Builders > > [1] the analogy I use is that the Apache Web Server doesn't try to be > Django or Rails, but instead be a great web server to run rails on top > of. > [2] in addition to the question about if lbaas belongs in core, the > incubation process would need to be gone through > http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/Incubation > [3] rather than blessing project X to be an official platform > component, enable many projects to run on top and let open source / > market dynamics determine winners. > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Oleg Gelbukh <ogelb...@mirantis.com> > wrote: > > Hello, everyone > > > > What is the status of this LBaaS project for the OpenStack? As far as I > > know, the open-source version is compatible with OpenStack. But is it > > possible to merge the Java code in the OpenStack ecosystem? Is someone > > working on re-implementing Atlas-LB in Python and eventually adding to > the > > projects incubator, or there are some other lbaas projects out there? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > -- > > Oleg Gelbukh > > Mirantis Inc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > >
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