On 14/06/13 22:21, Tooley, Christopher Tooley (STL) - contr wrote: > Our ideal solution to our cloud platform has become to use Deltacloud to > front-end our virtualization platforms. One of those platforms we will be > relying heavily on is OpenStack. I see that Deltacloud will make API calls to > EC2 for Load Balancers, IP Addresses and Firewalls. All of those things seem > to be supported in OpenStack's Quantum API so I was hoping to avoid writing > directly to OpenStack when Deltacloud supports it. > > Is there any work being done to move that forward? If so, where? If not, any > pointers on where to start would help. >
Hi Chris: great timing on the request! Someone put in a feature request for the OpenStack driver a couple weeks ago - tracked at [1] - that was specifically for Elastic IPs and Security Groups. As you'll see on that ticket I started the work of implementing this on the ruby-openstack rubygem side [2]. I'm waiting for some comments from the issue requestor/proposer before moving forward - any input you have in that respect will be helpful. I haven't followed Quantum API development of late - however looking at the v2 API [3] I can't see any support for IPs, Addresses or Load Balancers. Are you sure they are part of Quantum or rather are they extensions to Nova? In any case - I think for at least 2 of the things you mention - Firewall and IP Addresses the currently open ticket at [1] may be of interest for you. Please monitor progress on that and any contributions you can make (especially testing of submitted code) will help move this forward. For the Load Balancers it's probably a good idea to open a new ticket in JIRA to request this or even for yourself to contribute code to - though please bear in mind that you need to sign the Apache ICLA [4] if you haven't already done that. > It appears that Deltacloud traffic is really dropping off based on the number > of messages per month to the mailing list. Am I looking at the wrong list, > catching the community at a bad time, or is the project losing that much in > terms of people's available time? To add to what Dies said - I think this email [5] will explain the situation somewhat. > > I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to contribute if that is seen as a valuable > thing. absolutely! Welcome to the project ;) all the best, marios [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DTACLOUD-563 [2] https://github.com/ruby-openstack/ruby-openstack/pull/28 [3] http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-network/2.0/content/ [4] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt [5] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201305.mbox/%3C518D0F79.4000901%40redhat.com%3E > > Chris Tooley > >
