[openstack-dev] [Murano][Heat] MuranoPL questions?

Renat Akhmerov rakhmerov at mirantis.com
Wed Mar 19 09:36:05 UTC 2014


On 19 Mar 2014, at 16:00, Stan Lagun <slagun at mirantis.com> wrote:

> We want application authors to be able to express application deployment and maintenance logic of any complexity. This may involve communication with 3rd party REST services (APIs of applications being deployed, external services like DNS server API, application licensing server API, billing systems, some hardware component APIs etc) and internal OpenStack services like Trove, Sahara, Marconi and others including those that are not incubated yet and those to come in the future. You cannot have such things in HOT and when you required to you need to develop custom resource in Python. Independence  on custom plugins is not good for Murano because they cannot be uploaded by end users and thus he cannot write application definition that can be imported to/run on any cloud and need to convince cloud administrator to install his Python plugin (something that is unimaginable in real life).

+1. Makes perfect sense to me.

> Because DSL is a way to write custom resources (in Heats terminology) it has to be Turing-complete and have all the characteristics of general-purpose language. It also has to have domain-specific features because we cannot expect that DSL users would be as skilled as Heat developers and could write such resources without knowledge on hosting engine architecture and internals.

+1

Renat Akhmerov
@ Mirantis Inc.





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