I agree with Andrew. I see no value in letting users select how their cluster is provisioned, it will only make interface a little bit more complex. Dmitry 2014/1/30 Andrew Lazarev <alazarev at mirantis.com> > Alexander, > > What is the purpose of exposing this to user side? Both engines must do > exactly the same thing and they exist in the same time only for transition > period until heat engine is stabilized. I don't see any value in proposed > option. > > Andrew. > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Alexander Ignatov <aignatov at mirantis.com>wrote: > >> Today Savanna has two provisioning engines, heat and old one known as >> 'direct'. >> Users can choose which engine will be used by setting special parameter >> in 'savanna.conf'. >> >> I have an idea to give an ability for users to define provisioning engine >> not only when savanna is started but when new cluster is launched. The >> idea is simple. >> We will just add new field 'provisioning_engine' to 'cluster' and >> 'cluster_template' >> objects. And profit is obvious, users can easily switch from one engine >> to another without >> restarting savanna service. Of course, this parameter can be omitted and >> the default value >> from the 'savanna.conf' will be applied. >> >> Is this viable? What do you think? >> >> Regards, >> Alexander Ignatov >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20140130/05bb4a74/attachment.html>