On 10/24/2012 12:13 PM, Matt Wagner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:13:28AM -0400, Matt Wagner wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:47:30AM -0400, Mo Morsi wrote: >>> At today's Fedora Cloud SIG meeting, we discussed something akin to this >>> [1] but for cloud instances. Deltacloud [2] could be used to manage >>> connections to different clouds and we can provide a simple gui dialog >>> to configure providers. This would simplify the Fedora desktop / cloud >>> integration experience and make deploying to the cloud from Fedora >>> completely seamless. >> This is interesting. (Though honestly it just looks to be a prettier >> version of virt-manager?) >> >> It would be pretty nifty to add Deltacloud support, as you say. Or maybe >> Aeolus support. Right now Aeolus feels like it's more targeted at >> enterprise users, but I'm not sure it has to be. It could be a really >> awesome way to manage a couple of cloud deployments, whether it's >> hosting your website or running something compute-intensive. > Huh, you know, after I sent that, I got thinking some more about how I > would want to use it. I'm sending this to aeolus-devel only, because I > think this is really more about Conductor (and/or Winged Monkey). > > For about a year and a half, I've been paying for a VM at a local > hosting provider, to host my websites and a few other things. (They > don't actually provide any management access, but just for the sake of > making the example work, let's pretend they use OpenStack.) I also like > to spin up cloud instances for tinkering with stuff. > > So here are some stories to consider. Note that I'm thinking of these as > something I'd use Conductor for, either via Winged Monkey or via "Boxes" > connecting to Conductor.
I still would just like to target this at Deltacloud right now. We can add gnome-shell-plugins for the other Aeolus components outside of this. But deltacloud can be done now and shown quickly. > > - I have a running instance hosting my website. I want to click on it, > select "Backup," and have a snapshot made of it, either locally or on > the remote cloud provider's storage. Deltacloud + Gnome-shell (runs on Fedora / Ubuntu / Windows) + Snap (https://github.com/movitto/snap) Equals being able to take a snapshot of any operating system and any environment and move it to and from the cloud. I'm not saying we integrate snap in anytime soon (its proven to work but I still need to add it to the aeolus-incubator) but If that isn't huge I don't know what is. > <snip> > > I'd love to see this stuff make it into Conductor. But I wonder if the > nebulous (pun intended!) "Winged Monkey" concept is a place to play > around with some of these ideas, too. > > Sorry for the fact that this is quite orthogonal to the original topic. > :-[ It's fine, think this is all good though on a related note I think we should be working closer w/ our customers and current users to find out exactly what they like / dislike about the software and ecosystem, in addition to trying to find new users / grow the community. -Mo
