On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 11:15 -0800, Sang-Min Park wrote: > Yes, I agree with the idea of having users set API_PROVIDER to point to > Eucalyptus services. > > Another direction is to use EC2_URL/S3_URL as an endpoint. > Most Eucalyptus users already have those env variables set up and the > 'aws' gem can parse the hostname, service path, and port from the URL. > If EC2 driver doesn't set up endpoint explicitly assuming EC2_URL/S3_URL > variables to point to it, then we may have one EC2 driver to support both > Eucalyptus and EC2.
Note that env variables have to be set on the server to have an effect on driver selection; dynamic driver selection is aimed at making it easy for users to talk to a variety of clouds without needing lots of deltacloud servers. > Do we have some time estimate on when the EC2 driver will be committed to > the core? >From the way it looks, I'd say first week of January or thereabouts. David
