On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Doug Hellmann <d...@doughellmann.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Mikhail Fedosin's message of 2017-01-18 19:54:01 +0300: > > Hello! > > > > In this letter I want to tell you the current status of Glare project and > > discuss its future development within the entire OpenStack community. > > > > In the beginning I have to say a few words about myself - my name is Mike > > and I am the PTL of Glare. Currently I work as a consultant at Nokia, > where > > we're developing the service as a universal catalog of binary data. As I > > understand it right, Nokia has big plans for this service, Moshe Elisha > can > > tell you more about them. > > > > And here I want to ask the community - how exactly Glare may be useful in > > OpenStack? Glare was developed as a repository for all possible data > types, > > and it has many possible applications. For example, it's a storage of vm > > images for Nova. Currently Glance is used for this, but Glare has much > more > > features and this transition is easy to implement. Then it's a storage of > > Is there actually an upgrade path today, or is that something someone > would have to build? > We're discussing it with Glance community. Today there will be an IRC meeting and I'll present my plans there. > > > Tosca templates. We were discussing integration with Heat and storing > > templates and environments in Glare, also it may be interesting for > TripleO > > project. Mistral will store its workflows in Glare, it has already been > > decided. I'm not sure if Murano project is still alive, but they already > > use Glare 0.1 from Glance repo and it will be removed soon (in Pike > afaik), > > so they have no other options except to start using Glare v1. Finally > there > > were rumors about storing torrent files from Ironic. > > Glare is not currently an official project, and it seems to have > very few contributors during the Ocata time frame. Do either of > those things concern any of the project teams considering adding > it as a dependency? Do you have plans to address those? > Absolutely correct observation! Unfortunately there was a hitch in the service development caused by problems in the organization of my previous employer. Now I try again to put the project on the right track. At least Nokia will use Glare in production and allocates two people on it. In addition, I received a notice from a few people who are interested in contribution in Glare, I'll call some of them: Geetika Batra from Red Hat Dharini Chandrasekar from Intel Darja Malyavkina, independent Danil Golov from Samsung Kairat Kushaev from Mirantis Hemanth Makkapati from Rackspace I think we should ask them to confirm their agreements in this thread. Finally I'm going to announce that we'll apply under Big Tent till the end of January. > > Doug > > > > > Now let me briefly describe Glare features: > > > > * Versioning of artifacts - each artifact has a version in SemVer format > > and you can sort and filter by this field. > > * Multiblob support - there can be several files and folders per one > > artifact. > > * The ease of creating new artifact types with oslo_versionedobjects > > framework. > > * Fair immutability - no one can change artifact when it's active. > > * Multistore support - each artifact type data may be stored in > different > > storages: images may go to Swift; heat templates may be stored directly > in > > sql-database; for Docker Contatiners you can use Ceph, if you want. > > * Advanced sorting and filtering with various operators. > > * Uploaded data validation and conversion with hooks - for example, > Glare > > may check if uploaded file was a valid Tosca template and return Bad > > Request if it's not. > > > > If you're interested, I recorded several demos in asciinema, that > describe > > how Glare works and present the most useful features. Another demo about > > uploading hooks will be recorded and published this week. > > > > So, please tell me what you think and recommend in what direction we > should > > develop the project. Thanks in advance! > > > > Best, > > Mike > > > > Useful links: > > [1] Api documentation in rst format: > > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/glare-api > > [2] Basic artifact workflow on devstack: https://asciinema.org/a/97985 > > [3] Listing of artifacts: https://asciinema.org/a/97986 > > [4] Creating your own artifact type with oslo_vo: > > https://asciinema.org/a/97987 > > [5] Locations, Tags, Links and Folders in Glare: > > https://asciinema.org/a/99771 > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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