why not ! it would be very cool to have an abstraction layer. The difficulty is to communicate with the virtualisation product. For Proxmox, it's easy because it uses HTTP but I don't know the other products.
Le 3 oct. 2013 à 10:05, Christophe Demarey a écrit : > Hi Olivier, > > Cool. > Do you think it is possible to do a more generic Cloud interface in Pharo? > I mean an API agnostic to the used cloud manage (proxmox, cloudstack, > openstack, amazon)? There is a Java project called jclouds[1] that does that. > It may be cool that other people can define more cloud providers. > > Regards, > Christophe. > > [1] : http://jclouds.incubator.apache.org/ > > Le 3 oct. 2013 à 08:06, Olivier Auverlot a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> I just started since 3 days to work on a new framework for Pharo. It's named >> "PROXimity". The goal of this framework is to control a Proxmox >> virtualization solution with Pharo. >> >> Proxmox uses a REST API. With Zinc and STON, it's very easy to give orders >> as creating a virtual machine, managing the boot and stop, etc. >> >> I'm working on this project because it is a subpart of another application >> but I think that it could interest other Pharo users (for example: seaside >> hosting). >> >> The first Pharo classes are published on SmalltalkHub. If you're interested >> and want join your forces with me, don't hesitate to contact me. >> >> >> http://www.proxmox.com >> >> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API >> >> Best regards >> Olivier ;-) >> >> >> >
