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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">During HK summit  we’ve been discussing an approach to implement app catalog for Openstack. We’ve seen certain interest in the topic and heard from few people that they are working on similar concepts outside of community.</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apparently Openstack is now mature enough to have a need for an application catalog which will fulfil several needs of cloud admins and users on platform level:</font></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- the level of management of lifecycle of applications, distribution channels and billing</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Few weeks ago we proposed to extend the mission of Murano to be an Application Catalog for Openstack, simultaneously we decided to contribute several parts of the project to other OpenStack projects, mainly Heat and Mistral.</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Our intention is to make the mission and scope of the project as lean as possible, at the same time leveraging as much of the existing Openstack services as possible.</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As many others we’re excited about Solum project and looking forward to integrate with Solum and contribute there.</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Now the most exciting part - we are looking for contributors! Use cases, architecture, blueprints, code - anything would be helpful.</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Right now is the best time to start, as we are just started figuring out definition of Application Catalog, getting the requirements, considering use cases and design concepts. </font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The project from day one is run on OpenStack infrastructure, following all standard OpenStack processes and practices and we’re really making an effort to make it very open.</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We believe that this is an initiative which can bring a lot of value to the community, let’s try to obtain synergy working on this all together. The earlier you express your interest explicitly, the more impact you’re going to have on the roadmap.</font></span></p>

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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The high-level overview of the proposal can be found at our wiki: </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano/ApplicationCatalog" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano/ApplicationCatalog</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This is a work-in-progress document, and it is going to be changed - so your feedback is very welcome right now.</font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We’ve created several etherpads to collaborate and gather the requirements together. Feel free to add anything which seems important for you:</font></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogUseCases" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogUseCases</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> - some use-cases, giving examples of how different users interact with the Application Catalog</span></font></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Feel free to add anything to these etherpads - and share any ideas you might have with all the community. </font></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Regards,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Alexander Tivelkov  </font></span></p><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><br>

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