Hi Jeff, Thanks for sharing. ec2stack is available from pypi, so while we can build debs/rpms it can be easily installed using “pip install ec2stack”. The only migration path required by your users would be to change the consumer URL and re-register apikey/secretkey.
> On 01-May-2015, at 3:11 pm, Jeff Moody <j...@fifthecho.com> wrote: > > As this change will likely affect Citrix CloudPlatform, I can say that > at Datapipe we offer the AWS API endpoint to customers because we had > a request for it in the past. It was used once by a customer who then > changed to using the native CloudStack API. When this change hits a > release of Citrix CloudPlatform, I'm sure we'll probably deploy > ec2stack, but I don't see that (and our support team doesn't see that) > as a real problem - especially if RPM/Debs of the ec2stack code can be > built and distributed. > > On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 14:10 +0200, sebgoa wrote: >> On May 1, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> OK, I do not want to push a formal point, just warning. >>> >> >> understood. let's see if other folks are worried about ec2interface >> upgrade/change. >> >>> Op vr 1 mei 2015 om 09:57 schreef Wido den Hollander < >>> w...@widodh.nl>: >>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 01-05-15 09:17, sebgoa wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:06 PM, Rohit Yadav >>>>> <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 30-Apr-2015, at 7:43 pm, Daan Hoogland >>>>>>> <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We will have to provide a migration path if anybody is >>>>>>> actually >>>>>>> using it. >>>>>> >>>>>> The migration path would be documenting the change as part >>>>>> of the >>>>>> release notes to simply switch from using the consumer URL >>>>>> server_ip:7080/awsapi to setting up ec2stack and consuming >>>>>> from >>>>>> URL server_ip:5000 (or any other configured port). Normally >>>>>> service offerings are rather limited compared to other >>>>>> resources, >>>>>> when setting up ec2stack users can provide the mapping to it >>>>>> or >>>>>> migrate it to ec2stack using something custom like >>>>>> cloudmonkey+bash. >>>>>> >>>>>> The important issue to note here is that a lot of real-world >>>>>> awsapi integration with a user's own subsystems may not >>>>>> follow >>>>>> any convention or be rather customised other than >>>>>> consumption of >>>>>> service URL and associated apikey/secretkey, so migration >>>>>> path >>>>>> from our end would mostly consist of documenting the changes. >>>>>> This upgrade path may also be implemented as a script or a >>>>>> ec2stack tool that can read cloudbridge database to get >>>>>> useful >>>>>> configs and service offering mappings. And, there may be some >>>>>> changes that may not be migrated or supported due to the >>>>>> different AWS API versions both the services support and >>>>>> one’s >>>>>> own custom usage/implementation. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> So honestly, I am not sure what there is to migrate/upgrade…. >>>>> >>>>> It's really a setup and folks hitting a different endpoint as >>>>> Rohit >>>>> mentions. >>>>> >>>>> Plus, I would not sweat this too much, we have talked several >>>>> times >>>>> about it on the ML, and I am not convinced that *anyone* >>>>> actually >>>>> uses awsapi, especially with 4.3 forward. >>>>> >>>>> I would be rather drastic on this, but if someone is using a >>>>> piece >>>>> of open source code that has not been touched in 2 years and >>>>> that >>>>> does not work with latest cloudstack release…then tough luck. >>>>> Get >>>>> on the ML to fix things or do the 'migration' on your own. >>>>> >>>>> /me does not want to bother about awsapi upgrade. >>>>> >>>> >>>> /me doesn't want to touch that code either. In earlier threads I >>>> always voted for letting AWSAPI go en point people towards >>>> libcloud, >>>> terraform, whatever. >>>> >>>> Wido >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Regards. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Biligual auto correct use. Read at your own risico On 30 >>>>>>> Apr >>>>>>> 2015 19:36, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Rohit Yadav >>>>>>>> <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I was testing awsapi with 4.5 today and it just did not >>>>>>>>> work for me, >>>>>>>> after few hours I gave up and used ec2stack which worked >>>>>>>> out >>>>>>>> of the box and certainly felt more friendly to work >>>>>>>> with. I >>>>>>>> remembered we discussed removing awsapi but then the >>>>>>>> momentum >>>>>>>> never precipitated into action, so I spent some time >>>>>>>> today to >>>>>>>> cleanly remove awsapi and making sure it has a cleanup >>>>>>>> upgrade path and does not break the builds or the >>>>>>>> packaging. >>>>>>>> (Also found and fixed a debian build issue that someone >>>>>>>> recently reported, noredist builds being broken) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Here is the PR: >>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/216 Here is a >>>>>>>>> repo from the branch to prove that package works too: >>>>>>>> http://packages.bhaisaab.org/cloudstack/nukeawsapi >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> As Sebastien has asked me to hold on this for few >>>>>>>>> days, I >>>>>>>>> hope to merge >>>>>>>> this next week or later; but before that happends please >>>>>>>> feel >>>>>>>> free to share any comments, questions. Thanks. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I haven't looked at all at the changes or the resulting >>>>>>>> builds, but in principle, I agree. 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