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I have been asked by customers if we support the EC2 APIs. Whether they
have a clear idea on how they would take advantage of this is not
obvious. I tend to agree with Das that most customers that seriously
want to deploy across clouds will likely use a higher level management
tool.

But - walking away from EC2 compatibility would be the wrong message to
send to the market.

Pete



On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 00:26 +0000, Kamhout, Das wrote:
> From our experience, people using AWS utilize a large assortment of APIs
> (ELB, CloudFormation, S3, EBS, EC2, Route53), and many have chosen to use
> higher level tools to handle their cloud app deployments either through an
> abstraction layer, or through a PaaS (RightScale, Enstratius, Cloud Forms,
> CloudFoundry, and now Docker, Kubernetes, MesoSphere).
> 
> Being that OpenStack doesn¹t really have full API compatibility to AWS,
> generally we have stuck with the native commandsŠ simple enough for the
> types of scripts to have variables that do get instance calls to have EC2
> or Nova semantics depending on the endpoint type.
> 
> Personally I would rather see more focus on getting OpenStack APIs
> consistent, backwards compatible, and working across different OpenStack
> deployments as a higher priority.
> 
> -Das
> Intel (formerly Intel IT)
> 
> On 1/30/15, 3:42 PM, "Esker, Robert" <Rob.Esker at netapp.com> wrote:
> 
> >Carol et al,
> >
> >A number of our customers employ OpenStack motivated in large part for
> >it¹s ability to function as an on-prem AWS of sorts (something they can
> >burst from or repatriate to w/ out altering app deployment logic, or
> >simply used as a target for dev tools that expect an AWS endpoint).
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Rob Esker
> >NetApp, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On 1/30/15, 6:01 PM, "Barrett, Carol L" <carol.l.barrett at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi All - I wanted to run this by you to get your input on importance for
> >>our Enterprise Customers?
> >>Thanks
> >>Carol
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Michael Still [mailto:mikal at stillhq.com]
> >>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:01 PM
> >>To: foundation at lists.openstack.org; OpenStack Development Mailing List
> >>Subject: [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in
> >>Nova
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>as you might have read on openstack-dev, the Nova EC2 API implementation
> >>is in a pretty sad state. I wont repeat all of those details here -- you
> >>can read the thread on openstack-dev for detail.
> >>
> >>However, we got here because no one is maintaining the code in Nova for
> >>the EC2 API. This is despite repeated calls over the last 18 months (at
> >>least).
> >>
> >>So, does the Foundation have a role here? The Nova team has failed to
> >>find someone to help us resolve these issues. Can the board perhaps find
> >>resources as the representatives of some of the largest contributors to
> >>OpenStack? Could the Foundation employ someone to help us our here?
> >>
> >>I suspect the correct plan is to work on getting the stackforge
> >>replacement finished, and ensuring that it is feature compatible with
> >>the 
> >>Nova implementation. However, I don't want to preempt the design process
> >>-- there might be other ways forward here.
> >>
> >>I feel that a continued discussion which just repeats the last 18 months
> >>wont actually fix the situation -- its time to "break out" of that mode
> >>and find other ways to try and get someone working on this problem.
> >>
> >>Thoughts welcome.
> >>
> >>Michael
> >>
> >>--
> >>Rackspace Australia
> >>
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