While I was reading your mail, Matt, I was thinking the same as Main -
it overlaps a lot with Winged Monkey project, which does almost what you
described.
http://www.wingedmonkey.org/
You can have a look on that project and if you have suggestions how to
improve it, all ideas are welcome.
-- Jarda
On 05/04/13 23:09, Tzu-Mainn Chen wrote:
From: "Matt Wagner" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, April 5, 2013 4:30:13 PM
Subject: A branching-out suggestion: virt-manager for cloud
[snip]
1.) It's easy to start small and scale up. Grab a list of instances from
Deltacloud, and let the user pick one to launch, on a given hardware
profile, and show a list of running instances. Over time, you can work
in reporting on statistics; disk/network/etc. management, etc.; a VNC
client where supported.
2.) You could support multiple providers the same way that virt-manager
supports multiple hypervisors -- just add multiple, and show them
separately. You can have a collapsible EC2 section and a collapsible
OpenStack section in the same app.
3.) It could be a fun project while we work on figuring out what we're
doing long-term.
4.) Most of our plans for an eventual cloud broker involve exposing a
Deltacloud API in Aeolus, that would transparently map to the ideal
cloud provider. Thus, this app could work with whatever we end up building.
5.) Having a lightweight client for whatever we're building would be
pretty useful, so we wouldn't be constrained to the API-only. And having
it be a generic client for clouds would emphasize our value-add, versus
being a heavy monolithic app.
6.) It might attract a different crowd than "enterprise hybrid cloud"
attracts. I think that's a good thing, especially upstream. Enterprise
hybrid cloud management is sort of a niche market. I think there are
many more people that would be interested in a lightweight little
desktop GUI for managing cloud instances, but that some of the problems
we'd be solving overlap a lot. IOW, I think it has potential to grow the
community, and that this would still translate into building a better,
more robust enterprise-y management app.
What do you think? Have I gone insane? Would this be a worthwhile endeavor?
-- Matt
[1] https://github.com/niteshnarayanlal/Aeolus-gui
[2] http://virt-manager.org/
Heya - this does seem like an interesting idea. I feel like there might be a
lot of overlap with Winged Monkey (http://www.wingedmonkey.org/), although WM
is web-based. We are considering Deltacloud integration as well. Do you think
this would work as an extension of Winged Monkey?
Mainn
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