On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:42:45AM -0400, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: >> >> On Apr 4, 2013, at 12:37 AM, L Radhakrishna Rao <satishsaga...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > So are we going to report it into python? >> > >> > What's the entire plan? >> > >> >> Rao, there is no real plan but instead things that we should do as a >> community. >> >> Deltacloud is an apache project http://deltacloud.apache.org that offers >> among other things a standard interface (CIMI) to several cloud backends. >> Adding a CloudStack driver in delatcloud would give CloudStack a CIMI >> interface. >> Deltacloud is written in ruby, the path to the CS driver could be to use >> Chip's start with a ruby client >> https://github.com/chipchilders/cloudstack_ruby_client >> >> There is another Cloud standard out there, OCCI and it also has a ruby >> implementation. So the CS ruby client could be leveraged to also implement >> an OCCI interface: https://github.com/gwdg/rOCCI >> >> That said, if you are more interested in Python, there is also an OCCI >> project: http://occi-wg.org/2012/02/20/occi-pyocni/ >> >> If you want to work on the CloudStack core code, Cloudmonkey and Marvin are >> written in Python, you could look at those projects (under /tools in the >> cloudstack source tree), browse JIRA for open tickets in those components >> and start hacking :) >> >> -sebastien > > And the conversation about Python started in this thread due to Prasanna > suggesting that we have someone work with the Apache Libcloud project to > provide a CloudStack driver over there. That's a Python-based project. >
Incidentally libcloud has CloudStack support thanks (FWIU) in large part to the folks at Ninefold: http://libcloud.apache.org/supported_providers.html --David
