On Aug 1, 2014, at 7:39 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 31, 2014, at 11:51 PM, Carlos Reátegui <create...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Anyone out there using or have experience either/both of these that can >> comment on pros and cons? >> >> Previously I was unsuccessful at getting awsapi working on 4.1 and only just >> today found out about ec2stack. I was going to give it another try now that >> I am on 4.4 on one of my setups and was wondering if anyone had any >> comments/thoughts on these two options. >> >> thanks, >> Carlos > > Carlos, > > I was part of the project that wrote ec2stack with Darren and Ian in cc. > > ec2stack is a python application using Flask micro framework to expose the > ec2 query API. It is uncoupled from cloudstack and can run on the mgt server > or even on your local machine. > You might want to check this short tutorial: http://codac.co/ec2/README.html > > The github page also has docs: > https://github.com/BroganD1993/ec2stack > https://github.com/BroganD1993/ec2stack/wiki/User-Guide > > It is mostly aimed at supporting basic zones, but also has support for VPC > since 3 weeks ago. > > IMHO it is easier to maintain/extend and a much smaller code footprint. Right > now it is not an official cloudstack release even though Darren, Ian and I > are part of cloudstack community. We might put it under ASF governance if > there is interest in it. > > Awsapi has you know is strongly tied to cloudstack and the app comes bundled > in the source and in the package repo. It is java based and built dynamically > from the AWS wsdl. other than that since it's Java I don't know much about > it. My personal opinion is that very people in the community know about its > internals and it has proven difficult to maintain plus package properly. So I > prefer ec2stack mostly because I know how it's written and that it is > decoupled from cloudstack. > > Would be great to have you try ec2stack and give us some feedback, either on > this list or on the github page. I’ll give it a try next week and report back. Thanks! > > Cheers, > > -Sebastien >
