Thanks Nirmal, I will get back with more info on jclouds GCE.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Suriya, > > It's glad to hear that you are interested in the GCE support integration > project. Please find my comments in-line. > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Sathyasuriya Priya <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Dear Stratos developers, >> >> I am Suriyapriya Veluchamy, currently an MS CS student at NPU, Fremont, >> CA, USA. >> I am interested in the GSOC project listed in jira - adding support for >> Google Compute Engine. >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-480 >> >> I had a few clarifications after going through Stratos documentation and >> codebase, in the last couple of days. >> >> I see that Cloud Controller is the component that directly interacts with >> laases. Rest of the components are lass agnostic (mostly?). >> > > Correct. > > >> I also see that jclouds is adding support for GCE - >> https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs-google >> Not sure on the working status of the support. If somebody could brief on >> this, that would be helpful. >> > > I see... so we need to first identify the status of the GCE support of > jclouds. > > >> Since stratos uses jclouds, it should have support for GCE ? (may be not >> all features may work) >> > > Yes, at least the basic functionality should work. > >> >> My question is about the scope of the project. Does it involve working >> with jcloud team as well to get the required support ? >> Or stratos will directly use the GCE apis to get the required support. >> > > It's not feasible to implement jclouds API for GCE as part of this > project. So, initial idea was generated based on the fact that jclouds has > support for GCE. > >> >> I would like to measure the complexity of the work. Do you expect it to >> be more of integration with jclouds GCE support + fixing bugs + testing in >> stratos. >> > > Yes, exactly. You might have to fix issues that you will encounter in > jclouds GCE too. > > >> Or would it be more full-fledged development needed to get the things >> working. >> >> I also see large scale testing as one of the goals. I haven't thought >> about it in detail. But, any suggestions on how much percent of total work >> would this item cover (may be 25-40%)? >> >> > I hope above answers clarified this question too. > >> Please let me know if I am not clear in any of the questions. >> > > So, as a starting point, if you can contact jclouds developer list and get > clarified on the status of the GCE support, that'll be great. > >> >> Thank you >> Suriya >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Nirmal > > Nirmal Fernando. > PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos, > Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. > > Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/ >
