On 04/27/2013 11:31 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: > For those of us heavily involved in the industry (I work for HP Cloud > Services, Thomas works for a company closely involved with OpenStack), > we only are ever talking about IaaS. So "cloud" is shorthand, and like > any shorthand, taken out of context it is horribly confusing. I think > it is worth making sure that any entry level documentation of all > kinds are free from shorthand. Likewise, packages which include IaaS > implementations such as Eucalyptus and OpenStack should clearly state > that (which, on cursory examination, they all do). This is a call for review of our package descriptions! And indeed, after a short re-read, it could be made better. I will try to address this problem, together with the debian-i18n-english@ guys.
Currently, for Nova, we have: Description: OpenStack Compute OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable. . OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller designed to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. In addition to its "native" OpenStack API, it also supports the Amazon EC2 API, and it supports many different database backends (including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL), hypervisors (KVM, Xen), and user directory systems (LDAP, SQL). And for Eucalyptus (euca2ools), we have: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. Eucalyptus Systems is the pioneer in open source cloud computing technology that delivers hybrid cloud deployments for enterprise data centers. Leveraging Linux and web service technologies that commonly exist in today's IT infrastructure, Eucalyptus enables customers to quickly and easily create elastic clouds in minutes. This "no lock-in" approach provides users with ultimate flexibility when delivering their SLAs. . Eucalyptus is more than just virtualization. Along with building virtual machines, the technology supports the network and storage infrastructure within the cloud environment. Eucalyptus works with multiple flavors of Linux including Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Debian, and CentOS. Eucalyptus currently supports Xen and KVM hypervisors. These tools are meant to be CLI compatible with the ec2-api-tools. Thoughts? To me, it looks clear enough. What about you Richard? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
