+1
Count me on testing this integration.
-----Original Message-----
From: Aled Sage [mailto:aled.s...@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 July 2014 21:02
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: jclouds support for CloudStack
Hi all,
We are keen users of and contributors to jclouds [1], including for the
CloudStack integration.
For those who don't know it, Apache jclouds is the leading java cloud
portability library, used by a lot of companies and several Apache projects
including Brooklyn (for which I'm a lead) and Stratos.
Would anyone in the CloudStack community be interested in helping out with
updating and improving the jclouds integration? Unfortunately the jclouds
CloudStack code hasn't had as much attention as it deserves over the past
couple of releases.
I just targeted Exoscale [2] (i.e. CloudStack 4.3) for the jclouds live test
suite, and got a range of failures. There are some concrete tasks that can come
out of this:
* Ability to automatically skip inappropriate tests - e.g. if only
basic networking is available, then report the advanced networking
tests as skipped rather than failed.
(This could use the API Discovery [3])
* Investigate other failures, to make the test suite more robust (or
potentially to find regressions in CloudStack).
* Extend the jclouds integration for more recent API features (e.g.
for API Discovery [3])
* Improve the publicity and documentation for jclouds CloudStack -
e.g. it's not even mentioned in [4]
It's also worth noting that the jclouds live test suite is a great regression
test suite that could be run at least once on every CloudStack release. For
example, it would most likely spot regressions such as CLOUDSTACK-6508 [5,6].
Aled
[1] jclouds.apache.org <http://jclouds.apache.org> [2] www.exoscale.ch
<http://www.exoscale.ch> [3]
http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.3/user/listApis.html
[4] https://jclouds.apache.org/guides/
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6508
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-557
