On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:37:25PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > 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.
I'll point out as well that a number of those large companies are Aeolus users. So there's at least some chance they'd appreciate our adoption of CIMI b/c they're already familiar with it... --H > > > >> 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 > > > -- == Hugh Brock, [email protected] == == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU == == Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds. == == http://aeolusproject.org == "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." --Robert McCloskey
