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+1 Devananda

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Chris K <nobodycam at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
> Devananda is a great PLT. It is his vision that has and is driving Ironic's
> rapid development.
>
>
> Chris Krelle
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Devananda van der Veen
> <devananda.vdv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to nominate myself for the OpenStack Bare Metal Provisioning
>> (Ironic) PTL position.
>>
>> I have been working with OpenStack for over 18 months, and was a
>> scalability and performance consultant at Percona for four years prior.
>> Since '99, I have worked as a developer, team lead, database admin, and
>> linux systems architect for a variety of companies.
>>
>> I am the current PTL of the Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic) program,
>> which began incubation during Havana. In collaboration with many fine folks
>> from HP, NTT Docomo, USC/ISI, and VirtualTech, I worked extensively on the
>> Nova Baremetal driver during the Grizzly cycle. I also helped start the
>> TripleO program, which relies heavily on the baremetal driver to achieve its
>> goals. During the Folsom cycle, I led the effort to improve Nova's DB API
>> layer and added devstack support for the OpenVZ driver. Through that work, I
>> became a member of nova-core for a time, though my attention has shifted
>> away from Nova more recently.
>>
>> Once I had seen nova-baremetal and TripleO running in our test environment
>> and began to assess our longer-term goals (eg, HA, scalability, integration
>> with other OpenStack services), I felt very strongly that bare metal
>> provisioning was a separate problem domain from Nova and would be best
>> served with a distinct API service and a different HA framework than what is
>> provided by Nova. I circulated this idea during the last summit, and then
>> proposed it to the TC shortly thereafter.
>>
>> During this development cycle, I feel that Ironic has made significant
>> progress. Starting from the initial "git bisect" to retain the history of
>> the baremetal driver, I added an initial service and RPC framework,
>> implemented some architectural pieces, and left a lot of #TODO's. Today,
>> with commits from 10 companies during Havana (*) and integration already
>> underway with devstack, tempest, and diskimage-builder, I believe we will
>> have a functional release within the Icehouse time frame.
>>
>> I feel that a large part of my role as PTL has been - and continues to be
>> - to gather ideas from a wide array of individuals and companies interested
>> in bare metal provisioning, then translate those ideas into a direction for
>> the program that fits within the OpenStack ecosystem. Additionally, I am
>> often guiding compromise between the long-term goals, such as firmware
>> management, and the short-term needs of getting the project to a
>> fully-functional state. To that end, here is a brief summary of my goals for
>> the project in the Icehouse cycle.
>>
>> * API service and client library (likely finished before the summit)
>> * Nova driver (blocked, depends on ironic client library)
>> * Finish RPC bindings for power and deploy management
>> * Finish merging bm-deploy-helper with Ironic's PXE driver
>> * PXE boot integration with Neutron
>> * Integrate with TripleO / TOCI for automated testing
>> * Migration script for existing deployments to move off the nova-baremetal
>> driver
>> * Fault tolerance of the ironic-conductor nodes
>> * Translation support
>> * Docs, docs, docs!
>>
>> Beyond this, there are many long-term goals which I would very much like
>> to facilitate, such as:
>>
>> * hardware discovery
>> * better integration with SDN capable hardware
>> * pre-provisioning tools, eg. management of bios, firmware, and raid
>> config, hardware burn-in, etc.
>> * post-provisioning tools, eg. secure-erase
>> * boot from network volume
>> * secure boot (protect deployment against MITM attacks)
>> * validation of signed firmware (protect tenant against prior tenant)
>>
>> Overall, I feel honored to be working with so many talented individuals
>> across the OpenStack community, and know that there is much more to learn as
>> a developer, and as a program lead.
>>
>> (*)
>>
>> http://www.stackalytics.com/?release=havana&metric=commits&project_type=All&module=ironic
>>
>> http://russellbryant.net/openstack-stats/ironic-reviewers-30.txt
>> http://russellbryant.net/openstack-stats/ironic-reviewers-180.txt
>>
>> --
>> Devananda
>>
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