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<div>On Oct 28, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Mike Spreitzer <<a href="mailto:mspreitz@us.ibm.com">mspreitz@us.ibm.com</a>></div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><tt><font size="2">Zane Bitter <<a href="mailto:zbitter@redhat.com">zbitter@redhat.com</a>> wrote on 10/28/2013 06:47:50 AM:<br>
> On 27/10/13 16:37, Edgar Magana wrote:<br>
> > Heat Developers,<br>
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> > I am one of the core developers for Neutron who is lately working on the<br>
> > concept of "Network Topologies". I want to discuss with you if the<br>
> > following blueprint will make sense to have in heat or neutron code:<br>
> > </font></tt><a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/network-topologies-api"><tt><font size="2">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/network-topologies-api</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br>
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> > ...<br>
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> It sounds to me like the only thing there that Heat is not already doing <br>
> is to dump the existing network configuration. What if you were to <br>
> implement just that part and do it in the format of a Heat template? (An <br>
> independent tool to convert the JSON output to a Heat template would <br>
> also work, I guess.)<br>
> <br>
> ...<br>
> <br>
> It does sound very much like you're trying to solve the same problem as <br>
> Heat.<br>
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<tt><font size="2">In my templates I have more than a network topology. How would I combine the extracted/shared network topology with the other stuff I want in my heat template?</font></tt><br>
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<div>Well, if Neutron generated a Heat template describing a particular topology, you could always include that in another template as a provider resource assuming said template is generated with meaningful outputs. IMO, there is some appeal to having Neutron
generate a Heat template for this feature. Its something directly consumable by another Openstack service allowing you to not only describe, but save and re-create for later any networking configuration using the same artifact.</div>
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<tt><font size="2">Thanks,</font></tt> <br>
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