<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d like to share the summary of activities happened in Barcelona around Mistral.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">============= Presentations =============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>1. <b class="">Building Self-healing Applications with Aodh, Zaqar and Mistral</b><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/building-self-healing-applications-with-aodh-zaqar-and-mistral" class="">https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/building-self-healing-applications-with-aodh-zaqar-and-mistral</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It gives pretty interesting info on how to use Mistral in conjunction with other technologies like Aodh (alarming system)</div><div class="">and Zaqar to build something useful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>2. <b class="">Nokia: TOSCA & Mistral: Orchestrating End-to-End Telco Grade NFV</b><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/nokia-tosca-and-mistral-orchestrating-end-to-end-telco-grade-nfv" class="">https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/nokia-tosca-and-mistral-orchestrating-end-to-end-telco-grade-nfv</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a quick introduction into Mistral (I believe from a slightly different angle than before) and the detailed description</div><div class="">of one of the main Mistral use cases that we have at Nokia CloudBand. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">============= Fishbowl =============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/DmitriZimine/mistral-and-stackstorm" class="">http://www.slideshare.net/DmitriZimine/mistral-and-stackstorm</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had a very very cool fishbowl this time. Thanks a ton to Dmitri Zimine!</div><div class="">Dmitri was talking about Mistral and StackStorm and his vision of the industry regarding workflow based automation,</div><div class="">value of workflows and possible strategies on how StackStorm and Mistral can become more seamless in the future.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">============= Design Sessions =============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mistral-barcelona-summit-topics-2016" class="">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mistral-barcelona-summit-topics-2016</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Although we had only 2 design sessions (my fault, I should have asked more), we were able to discuss lots of technical</div><div class="">topics during them and the contributors meetup that we had Friday afternoon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I won’t be repeating here everything what’s in the etherpad but summarizing it I would say that we’re now finally taking a</div><div class="">course on making Mistral more consumable. For example, we have a bunch of plans on how to improve our documentation</div><div class="">(better structure, more examples and cookbooks). We are also willing to fix our actions subsystem which is now not very</div><div class="">mature, to be honest. Specifically, it applies to how we write actions and what’s available in Mistral code base to help with</div><div class="">this, test coverage of OpenStack actions is now very basic and requires a more solid approach. We’re making big steps</div><div class="">now towards it. Generally, I have to admit that actions is one of our biggest problems now because existing OpenStack</div><div class="">actions often go out of sync with underlying APIs and a lot of new people start getting familiar with Mistral exactly by</div><div class="">trying workflows with OpenStack actions, so those workflows often simply don’t work and that makes an impression that</div><div class="">Mistral doesn’t work. Although the core Mistral functionality is now pretty robust and performant. We need to improve it </div><div class="">asap (as a matter of fact, yesterday).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Any feedback or comments on what we’re doing in Mistral are very welcome!</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Renat Akhmerov</div><div class="">@Nokia</div></div>
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