virtual disk inter- operability , may be another area, means study about different disk formats that CloudStack is supporting. like qucow, vhd etc.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:14 PM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:33 AM, jitendra shelar <jitendra.shelar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am pursuing with my MS at BITs, Pilani, India. >> I am planning of doing my final sem project in cloudstack. >> >> Can somebody please suggest me some research areas in cloudstack? >> > > Hi Jitendra, it depends what you mean by 'research', but there are a lot of > interesting projects to do IMHO: > > -Integration testing: Develop the Marvin framework and write tests to > continuously check the support for CloudStack clients (libcloud, AWS, jclouds > etc) this would require learning jenkins, understanding continuous > integration pipeline and finding ways to tests these clients automatically. > > -Investigating Xen GPU passthrough and setting up a demo where Xen > hypervisors are tagged specifically for VM that need access to GPUs, run CUDA > code on them… > > -Investigate Mesos framework and develop deployments scripts to automatically > deploy Mesos on a CloudStack infrastructure, the end goal being to demo > running mixed workloads (MPI, hadoop, spark) on a virtualized infrastructure > in cloudstack > > -Docker integration/use, a few of us have been talking about this and you > would be likely to get some help from the community. > > -Review of configuration management systems (chef, puppet, ansible, > saltstack...) develop recipes for deploying cloudstack for all systems (some > already exist), from source and from packages. Include management server and > hypervisor setup. Ideally had a wrapper to link to the hypervisor and the mgt > server together automatically using Marvin. > > -Investigate PaaS solutions and their integration with CloudStack. Software > like cloudify, openshift, cloudfoundry, appscale…some of it is already done > but a thorough analysis of pros and cons as well as code writing to finish > the integration of some would be great. > > You can also check out JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK > , browse through the long list of 'bugs' and pick what seems interesting to > you. > > This all depends of course on your skills and interest, are you more of a > java developer or a sys admin ? Are you interested in integration with third > party software or core java development ? > > Cheers, > > -sebastien > >> Thanks, >> Jitendra > -- Thanks and Regards Manas Ranjan Biswal Research Scientist, OpenTechnology Center, NIC,Chennai 08015698191,9776349149 manas.bis...@nic.in
