Open Stack

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 6:51 AM, John Garbutt <john at johngarbutt.com> wrote:
> On 12 April 2017 at 03:54, joehuang <joehuang at huawei.com> wrote:
>> What's the one platform will be in your own words? What's your proposal and
>> your focus to help one platform vision being achieved?
>
> The more I think about this, the less I like the phrase "one platform".
>
> I like to think of OpenStack as group of constellations. Those
> constellations are groups of projects that are built to be used
> together around a shared set of use cases and users. Note that many
> (all?) of those constellations involve open source projects that were
> born and live outside of OpenStack.

+1 for us to publish sets of projects that work together for specific
scenarios. I heard this idea first from Allison Randall and it
immediately struck a chord. To be fair folks like Jay Pipes have
always said (paraphrasing) "OpenStack is a toolbox". So it's the next
step i guess. Lauren Sell was mentioning yesterday about hearing
confusion around "Big Tent", i do feel that when we put forth a set of
constellations we can start deprecating the "Big Tent" terminology if
appropriate.


> I am trying to kick start the "VM and baremetal" working group to get
> feedback on a specific constellation as a group of projects. Here I am
> thinking about running Nova, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, etc to give
> you (in some sense) a Software Defined Data Center. Many applications
> and services need to consume and integrate with that platform, like
> Heat, Trove and Magnum, to can get access to the compute, networking
> and storage they need to execute their workloads, such as containers.
> Its like the next generation of consolidation to get to the next level
> of utilization/efficiency. If you look at this constellation the
> database and message queue are important non-OpenStack components of
> the constellation. Maybe this is a false constellation, and there is a
> different set of things that people use together. Thats some of the
> feedback I hope we get at the forum.
>
> The work ttx mentions is important. I hope the project maps will help
> communicate how users can meet their needs by running various
> combinations of OpenStack and non-OpenStack projects together.
>
> To be clear, I am not claiming to have the answers here, this is just
> my current thinking. I look forward to all the debate and discussions
> around this topic, and all the interesting things I will learn about
> along that journey, things that will likely make me change my mind.
>
> Thanks,
> johnthetubaguy
>
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