this looks great! i hope that you all keep this open to dev community for input as well as share your progress. please take all your decisions through the appropriate Apache 2.0 guidelines.
i can see a bright future with these changes. GO did bring many improvements to PCF. On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Lakmal Warusawithana <lak...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > Couple of time community were discussed about Stratos refacing to carter > new technology and threads. Yesterday I have met (unplanned meeting) few > PMC/committers (Lakmal, Imesh, Akila, Chamilad, IsuruH) offline and > discussed and came up $subject. Please share your valuable thoughts and > feedback. > > Stratos 4.x and previous versions are mainly focused on run application on > top of IaaS. To support multiple IaaSes, we used apache jclouds. But rise > of the container technology future app dev and deployment will couple with > containers not VM. Because of that we have integrated k8s support in > Stratos 4.1.x release. But if we carefully looked at 4.1.x and new k8s > releases, we are adding additional layer to k8s without any benefits. > Personally I don't like to duplicate engineering effort if it does not > giving any value to community. This is the background that we thought of > why Stratos need refacing. > > Stratos 5.0 - proposing name "Ignite Architecture", we though of fully > focus on container based application development/deployment. > > > > We do not want to reinvent or compete with current PaaS providers. We > propose to change the strategy to support multi PaaS instead of support > multiple IaaS(Stratos 4.x). In high level, Stratos will provide unique > workflow across deferent PaaS to deploy apps. Users are not going to tie up > with PaaS vendors, they will have flexibility to use any PaaS. Stratos will > play a role in-between PaaS and SaaS. Initially we can start with k8s > (since we all have domain knowledge) then will add Mesos, CF, ECS etc > support. > > User experience should be very simple. One main problem I have seen in all > of these PaaS, their technologies are very complicate to understand average > user. > > This is total rewrite of Stratos. We discussed to rewrite with GO, main > reason Stratos itself should run in-side a container. > > Please share your thoughts. > > p.s: @(Imesh, Akila, Chamilad, IsuruH) please add if I missed anything. > > -- > Lakmal Warusawithana > Vice President, Apache Stratos > Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/ >
