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Thanks for sharing this, Renat!


Cheers,
Lingxian Kong (Larry)

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Renat Akhmerov <renat.akhmerov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’d like to share the summary of activities happened in Barcelona around
> Mistral.
>
> ============= Presentations =============
>
> 1. *Building Self-healing Applications with Aodh, Zaqar and Mistral*
>
> https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/building-self-
> healing-applications-with-aodh-zaqar-and-mistral
>
> It gives pretty interesting info on how to use Mistral in conjunction with
> other technologies like Aodh (alarming system)
> and Zaqar to build something useful.
>
>
> 2. *Nokia: TOSCA & Mistral: Orchestrating End-to-End Telco Grade NFV*
>
> https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/nokia-tosca-and-
> mistral-orchestrating-end-to-end-telco-grade-nfv
>
> This is a quick introduction into Mistral (I believe from a slightly
> different angle than before) and the detailed description
> of one of the main Mistral use cases that we have at Nokia CloudBand.
>
> ============= Fishbowl =============
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/DmitriZimine/mistral-and-stackstorm
>
> We had a very very cool fishbowl this time. Thanks a ton to Dmitri Zimine!
> Dmitri was talking about Mistral and StackStorm and his vision of the
> industry regarding workflow based automation,
> value of workflows and possible strategies on how StackStorm and Mistral
> can become more seamless in the future.
>
> ============= Design Sessions =============
>
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mistral-barcelona-summit-topics-2016
>
> Although we had only 2 design sessions (my fault, I should have asked
> more), we were able to discuss lots of technical
> topics during them and the contributors meetup that we had Friday
> afternoon.
>
> I won’t be repeating here everything what’s in the etherpad but
> summarizing it I would say that we’re now finally taking a
> course on making Mistral more consumable. For example, we have a bunch of
> plans on how to improve our documentation
> (better structure, more examples and cookbooks). We are also willing to
> fix our actions subsystem which is now not very
> mature, to be honest. Specifically, it applies to how we write actions and
> what’s available in Mistral code base to help with
> this, test coverage of OpenStack actions is now very basic and requires a
> more solid approach. We’re making big steps
> now towards it. Generally, I have to admit that actions is one of our
> biggest problems now because existing OpenStack
> actions often go out of sync with underlying APIs and a lot of new people
> start getting familiar with Mistral exactly by
> trying workflows with OpenStack actions, so those workflows often simply
> don’t work and that makes an impression that
> Mistral doesn’t work. Although the core Mistral functionality is now
> pretty robust and performant. We need to improve it
> asap (as a matter of fact, yesterday).
>
>
> Any feedback or comments on what we’re doing in Mistral are very welcome!
>
> Thanks
>
> Renat Akhmerov
> @Nokia
>
>
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