[openstack-dev] [all][sdk] Integrating OpenStack and k8s with a service broker

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 15:52:31 UTC 2018


"do you think this is an area that OpenLab could help out with?" <<
YES!! please ping mrhillsman and RuiChen over on #askopenlab

-- Dims

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Zane Bitter <zbitter at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/18 11:18, Chris Hoge wrote:
>>
>> Hi Zane,
>>
>> Do you think this effort would make sense as a subproject within the Cloud
>> Provider OpenStack repository hosted within the Kubernetes org? We have
>> a solid group of people working on the cloud provider, and while it’s not
>> the same code, it’s a collection of the same expertise and test resources.
>
>
> TBH, I think it makes more sense as part of the OpenStack community. If you
> look at how the components interact, it goes:
>
> Kubernetes Service Catalog -> Automation Broker -> [this] -> OpenStack
>
> So the interfaces with k8s are already well-defined and owned by other
> teams. It's the interface with OpenStack that requires the closest
> co-ordination. (Particularly if we end up autogenerating the playbooks from
> introspection on shade.) If you look at where the other clouds host their
> service brokers or Ansible Playbook Bundles, they're not part of the
> equivalent Kubernetes Cloud Providers either.
>
> We'll definitely want testing though. Given that this is effectively another
> user interface to OpenStack, do you think this is an area that OpenLab could
> help out with?
>
>> Even if it's hosted as an OpenStack project, we should still make sure
>> we have documentation and pointers from the
>> kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack
>> to guide users in the right direction.
>
>
> Sure, that makes sense to cross-advertise it to people we know are using k8s
> on top of OpenStack already. (Although note that k8s does not have to be
> running on top of OpenStack for the service broker to be useful, unlike the
> cloud provider.)
>
>> While I'm not in a position to directly contribute, I'm happy to offer
>> any support I can through the SIG-OpenStack and SIG-Cloud-Provider
>> roles I have in the K8s community.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers,
> Zane.
>
>
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