On 20/11/12 23:50, Matt Wagner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:54:51PM +0100, Tomas Sedovic wrote: >> Good news everyone! >> >> During our discussions about the Aeolus API at the first Technical >> Cabal meeting, Michal Fojtik suggested we look at the CIMI spec >> (which Deltacloud partially implements). >> >> Apparently, it tackles a lot of things we are or will be discussing >> here, too. Things such as state changes, multi-instance deployments, >> networking, etc. > > This looks interesting. I'd had only brief exposure to the concept > prior to now, but some of the concepts it exposes do seem to line up > well with what we do. > > Is Deltacloud still the only project implementing this in the wild? It
yes - we are aware (through our participation in dmtf cmwg) that there are others 'working on implementations' but we don't have anything more concrete than that. There is a plugfest being organised at the f2f meeting this December so we may learn more about other implementations there (David Lutterkort will be representing). > seems interesting, but I'd hate for us to implement an API that few > people end up using. (On the other hand, I suppose everyone else is > probably saying this exact same thing right now...) right... and there *are no guarantees* - however, if you look at the membership of the CMWG there is a serious industrial backing - Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, VMWare, Fujitsu, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and many others. I'd be surprised/disappointed if we don't see at least a few adopters amongst the people that made significant investments of time and effort to develop the spec. > >> You can download it from the DMTF website: >> >> http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0263_1.0.1.pdf >> >> It's a *massive* document (178 pages, ffs) but I think it may be >> worth checking it out. > fwiw - I've been sitting on the DMTF weekly calls for 2+ years where we developed this spec. I don't know it by heart (!) but can definitely help and/or point you in the right direction if there are any questions, thanks, marios > Wait, you open with "Good news everyone!" and close with a link to a > 178-page API specification? I'd hate to see your idea of *bad* news. ;) > > Seriously, though, this is interesting and seems like it's worth > exploring further. (I can't say I've read the document in full yet.) > > -- Matt >
