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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/2013 08:30 AM, Alexander
Tivelkov wrote:<br>
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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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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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style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- an integration
point for applications and services running on top of
OS</font></span></p>
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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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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- self-service
provisioning for applications</font></span></p>
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<span
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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
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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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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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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a
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href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogUI"
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/AppCatalogUI</span></a><span
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- requirements for UI</span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogRoadmap"
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/AppCatalogRoadmap</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
- roadmap with features and milestones</span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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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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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style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Looking forward
for your participation!</font></span></p>
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Can you outline what might need to be added to Heat to support
Murano?<br>
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