[openstack-dev] Proposal of nova-hyper driver

Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui sahid.ferdjaoui at redhat.com
Mon Jun 22 08:18:51 UTC 2015


On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 07:18:10PM +0300, Joe Gordon wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Peng Zhao <peng at hyper.sh> wrote:
> 
> >    Hi, all,
> >
> > I would like to propose nova-hyper driver:
> > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/nova-hyper.
> >
> >    - What is Hyper?
> >    Put simply, Hyper is a hypervisor-agnostic Docker runtime. It is
> >    similar to Intel’s ClearContainer, allowing to run a Docker image with any
> >    hypervisor.
> >
> >
> >    - Why Hyper driver?
> >    Given its hypervisor nature, Hyper makes it easy to integrate with
> >    OpenStack ecosystem, e.g. Nova, Cinder, Neutron
> >
> >    - How to implement?
> >    Similar to nova-docker driver. Hyper has a daemon “hyperd” running on
> >    each physical box. hyperd exposed a set of REST APIs. Integrating Nova with
> >    the APIs would do the job.
> >
> >    - Roadmap
> >    Integrate with Magnum & Ironic.
> >
> >
> This sounds like a better fit for something on top of Nova such as  Magnum
> then as a  Nova driver.
> 
> Nova only supports things that look like 'VMs'. That includes bare metal,
> and containers, but it only includes a subset of container features.
> 
> Looking at the hyper CLI [0], there are many commands that nova would not
> suppprt, such as:
> 
> * The pod notion
> * exec
> * pull

Then I guess you need to see if Hyper can implement mandatory features
for Nova [1], [2].

[1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix

> [0] https://docs.hyper.sh/reference/cli.html
> 
> 
> 
> > Appreciate for comments and inputs!
> > Thanks,Peng
> >
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> > Hyper - Make VM run like Container
> >
> >
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