<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">A message from my associate as he wings to the Icehouse OpenStack summit (and yes, we're psyched):<br><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi OpenStackers,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We, a team within Huawei, are excited to tell you
about an OpenStack related project we’ve been working on and will be
introducing at the summit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our project, code named Compass is a Restful API
driven deployment platform that performs discovery of the physical
machines attached to a specified set of switches. It then customizes
configurations for machines you identify and installs
the systems and networks to your configuration specs. Besides <a href="http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org/event/529622f2280d15974a0016397e09e220?iframe=no&w=600&sidebar=no&bg=no#.UnF8i3DkugY" target="_blank">presenting the technical internals and design decisions of Compass</a> at the Icehouse summit, we will also have a
<a href="http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org/event/809bc84325705ef462e316f118b129f8?iframe=no&w=600&sidebar=no&bg=no#.UnF8hXDkugY" target="_blank">demo session</a>.</p><a href="http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org/event/809bc84325705ef462e316f118b129f8?iframe=no&w=600&sidebar=no&bg=no#.UnF8hXDkugY" target="_blank"></a><div style="width:16px;min-height:16px;display:inline-block">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our code repository will be available soon on github, and our project Wiki page is at
<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Compass" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Compass</a>. We would like to use the summit as an opportunity to collect feedback and inputs toward Compass, and we would like to
<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span>seek collaborations with other projects wherever it
makes sense. For example, Compass installs an OpenStack system that
could be the “seed OpenStack” for TripleO. Or, it could be the working
base of your OpenStack deployment.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">The current status of our project looks as follows. </p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A Restful API server works in place</p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A demo UI frontend consuming our Restful API (<b><i>as we provide Restful API, a third-party UI can be easily pluggable</i></b>)</p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>An adapter interface for automatic resource discovery with topology awareness (<b><i>Huawei
switch plug-in and HP switch plug-in have been tested, and it should be
a matter of thin plug-ins for other network vendors’ device*</i></b>)</p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>An adapter interface for configuration management tools and we have implemented the Chef plug-in (<b><i>we are willing to work with other CM tools, and it should be a matter of thin plug-ins**</i></b>)</p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A Cobbler interface for OS provisioning</p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>An interface for policy driven service deployment</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to showing the community our
project, receiving and incorporating, brainstorming what else it could
do, and integrating it into the OpenStack family . We are a part of the
OpenStack community and want to support it both
with core participation and with Compass.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Last but not least, I look forward to talking to you in our technical internals session.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shuo</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">*</span><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">
Just like OpenStack openness makes it a valuable game-changing
cloud solution, we hope we can work with other hardware vendors to make
OpenStack universally available on various hardware platforms in a
streamlined fashion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">** We feel there may exist great opportunities for us to work with other CM tools if needed and build solutions</span></p>
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