<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much Eduard :).<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Eduard Matei <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eduard.matei@cloudfounders.com" target="_blank">eduard.matei@cloudfounders.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Darshan,<div>Having just finished writing a volume driver i can say you need a lot of patience.</div><div>First, to quickly answer your questions:</div><div>1. Read ALL the drivers in the official repo: (<a href="https://github.com/openstack/cinder/tree/master/cinder/volume/drivers" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstack/cinder/tree/master/cinder/volume/drivers</a>) and how they relate to the cinder-api (<a href="https://github.com/openstack/cinder/tree/master/cinder/api" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstack/cinder/tree/master/cinder/api</a>); then look into (<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder</a>), especially the part about plugins and "configuring devstack to user your driver and backend);</div><div>2. As far as i could tell, python is the only way.</div><div>3. You should try devstack (it's easier to setup, quicker, and always gives you latest code so you can develop against the latest version).</div><div><br></div><div>After that, the rest is just "bureaucracy" :) (become a contributor, sign up for some services, get your code reviewed on gerrit, etc).</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div><br></div><div>Eduard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Darshan Ghumare <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darshan.ghumare@gmail.com" target="_blank">darshan.ghumare@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi All,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I need to write a volume driver so that I can integrate our storage product into openstack.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have following questions about the sane,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1. How should I go about it?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. I donnot know python. Is the python only way to write a driver?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3. I have setup openstack by following steps mentioned at <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/install-guide/install/apt/content/" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/install-guide/install/apt/content/</a>. To test the drive do I also need to have a development environment (<a href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/cinder/devref/development.environment.html" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/developer/cinder/devref/development.environment.html</a>)?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Darshan</div></div><br>
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