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Hello Thomas,

I do understand your feelings. The problem is there were already many
points raised both pro and contra adopting Salt as an agent. And so far no
consensus was reached on that matter. Maybe someone else is willing to step
out and write a PoC for Salt-based agent? Then we can agree on a
functionality PoC should implement and compare the implementations. The
PoCs also can reveal limitations we currently don't see.

Thanks,

Dmitry




2013/12/17 Thomas Herve <thomas.herve at enovance.com>

>
> > The discussion didn't result in a consensus, but it did revealed a great
> > number of things to be accounted. I've tried to summarize top-level
> points
> > in the etherpad [1]. It lists only items everyone (as it seems to me)
> agrees
> > on, or suggested options where there was no consensus. Let me know if i
> > misunderstood or missed something. The etherpad does not list
> > advantages/disadvantages of options, otherwise it just would be too long.
> > Interested people might search the thread for the arguments :-) .
> >
> > I've thought it over and I agree with people saying we need to move
> further.
> > Savanna needs the agent and I am going to write a PoC for it. Sure the
> PoC
> > will be implemented in project-independent way. I still think that Salt
> > limitations overweight its advantages, so the PoC will be done on top of
> > oslo.messaging without Salt. At least we'll have an example on how it
> might
> > look.
> >
> > Most probably I will have more questions in the process, for instance we
> > didn't finish discussion on enabling networking for the agent yet. In
> that
> > case I will start a new, more specific thread in the list.
>
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> While I agree that using Salt's transport may be wrong for us, the module
> system they have is really interesting, and a pretty big ecosystem already.
> It solved things like system-specific information, and it has a simple
> internal API to create modules. Redoing something from scratch
> Openstack-specific sounds like a mistake to me. As Salt seems to be able to
> work in a standalone mode, I think it'd be interesting to investigate that.
>
> Maybe it's worth separating the discussion between how to deliver messages
> to the servers (oslo.messaging, Marconi, etc), and what to do on the
> servers (where I think Salt is a great contender).
>
> --
> Thomas
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