[openstack-dev] [Solum] Choice of API infrastructure

Angus Salkeld asalkeld at redhat.com
Sun Nov 3 07:11:38 UTC 2013


On 03/11/13 11:26 +0800, Russell Bryant wrote:
>On 11/02/2013 11:54 AM, Adrian Otto wrote:
>> Noorul,
>>
>> I agree that key decisions should be tracked in blueprints. This is the
>> one for this decision which was made in our 2013-10-18 public meeting.
>> Jay's submission is consistent with the direction indicated by the team.
>>
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/solum/+spec/rest-api-base
>>
>> Transcript log:
>> http://irclogs.solum.io/2013/solum.2013-10-08-16.01.log.html
>> <http://irclogs.solum.io/2013/solum.2013-10-08-16.01.log.html>
>
>Heh, not much discussion there.  :-)
>
>Here's my take ... Pecan+WSME has been pushed as the thing to
>standardize on across most OpenStack APIs.  Ceilometer (and maybe
>others?) are already using it.  Others, such as Nova, are planning to
>use it this cycle. [1][2]

+1, for Pecan+WSME

>
>I care less about the particular choice and more about consistency.  It
>brings a lot of value, such as making it a lot easier for developers to
>jump around between the OpenStack projects.  Can we first at least agree
>that there is value in standardizing on *something* for most OpenStack APIs?
>
>I understand that there may be cases where the needs for an API justify
>being different.  Marconi being more of a data-plane API vs
>control-plane means that performance concerns are much higher, for example.
>
>If we agree that consistency is good, does Solum have needs that make it
>different than the majority of OpenStack APIs?  IMO, it does not.
>
>Can someone lay out a case for why all OpenStack projects should be
>using Falcon, if that's what you think Solum should use?
>
>Also, is anyone willing to put up the equivalent of Jay's review [3],
>but with Pecan+WSME, to help facilitate the discussion?
>
>[1]
>http://icehousedesignsummit.sched.org/event/b2680d411aa7f5d432438a435ac21fee
>[2]
>http://icehousedesignsummit.sched.org/event/4a7316a4f5c6f783e362cbba2644bae2
>[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/55040/
>
>-- 
>Russell Bryant
>
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