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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/14/2013 11:41 AM, Jay Pipes
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<blockquote cite="mid:52851952.4010106@gmail.com" type="cite">So
while I have been on vacation, I've been thinking about Solum and
Heat.
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And I have some lingering questions in my mind that make me
question whether a new server project is actually necessary at
all, and whether we really should just be targeting innovation and
resources towards the Heat project.
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What exactly is Solum's API going to control that is not already
represented in Heat's API and the HOT templating language? At this
point, I'm really not sure, and I'm hoping that we can discuss
this important topic before going any further with Solum. Right
now, I see so much overlap that I'm questioning where the
differences really are.
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Thoughts?
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-jay
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Jay,<br>
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After some conversation with other heat-core folks, I am confident
we don't want to implement the API contained here:<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Solum/API">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Solum/API</a><br>
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Most importantly, it would complicate "how to use heat" which is a
question we are constantly answering upstream and down. I
personally feel this would drive adopters away from Heat. We want
people to adopt Heat, and one key way of achieving that goal is
keeping it simple and doing a bang-up job on orchestration (Do one
thing, Do it well.). The linked API, while offering valuable use
cases, is overkill for Heat's core mission.<br>
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From a technical perspective, Heat offers a good composable building
block which is the foundation of good engineering principles. It
makes perfect sense for Solum to build out its implementation using
Heat as an orchestration layer, rather then jamming Solum use-cases
into Heat.<br>
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Regards<br>
-steve<br>
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