<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi Bekir,<br><br>As Trove PTL, thanks for your interest in Trove.<br><br>Trove is not dead or abandoned, it's actively developed and maintained, other<br>than catalyst cloud, there are some other contributors coming from other cloud<br>providers as well. We (catalyst cloud) have just deployed Trove Ussuri in<br>production, and will soon upgrade to Victoria to get benefits of the added<br>features and bugfixes. I would recommend you read the Victoria project update<br>to get an impression of the latest project status<br><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-October/017772.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-October/017772.html</a>.<br><br>Trove team is so small that we don't have regular meetings, but feel free to<br>get in touch via IRC (#openstack-trove) or email.<br><br>---<br>Lingxian Kong<br>Senior Cloud Engineer<br>Catalyst Cloud<br><a href="http://www.catalystcloud.nz">www.catalystcloud.nz</a><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:monospace,monospace">---</span><br></div><div><div><font color="#666666" face="monospace, monospace">Lingxian Kong</font></div><div><font color="#666666" face="monospace, monospace">Senior Software Engineer</font></div><div><font color="#666666" face="monospace, monospace">Catalyst Cloud</font></div><div><font color="#666666" face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://www.catalystcloud.nz" target="_blank">www.catalystcloud.nz</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:31 AM Bekir Fajkovic <<a href="mailto:bekir.fajkovic@citynetwork.eu">bekir.fajkovic@citynetwork.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" style="font-size:13px"><div>Hello!</div><div><br></div><div>My name is Bekir Fajkovic, i am resided in Sweden and i work as a member of a DBA team at City Network company that provides</div><div>cloud-based services and solutions based mostly on OpenStack.</div><div><br></div><div>We are about to evaluate the OpenStack project Trove in order to try to provide a reasonable and robust kind of DBaaS solution</div><div>to our customers. As a first step i created a test environment based on DevStack (based in turn on latest release of OpenStack)</div><div>including Trove (version 14.1.0.dev18) and i am currently evaluating the things. I see many promising features, like Docker-based</div><div>deployments of database instances on dedicated images possible to be created and configured through Trove utilities, also some</div><div>important security improvements of RabbitMQ message handling ensuring encryption key usage in communication with the db instances etc.. </div><div>I do not see MSSQL datastore type provided in the initial setup but i guess that is a subject of extra configuration that can be carried</div><div>out by us. </div><div><br></div><div>So, i wonder about the status of the project in general, to begin with. According to some rumours going around, the project is to be</div><div>abandoned soon by the developers and i would like to get that confirmed or not, just in order for us to make further decisions in regards</div><div>to DBaaS development. </div><div><br></div><div>I know that many DBaaS projects are nowadays based on Kubernetes and development of specific operators that provide certain kind of</div><div>automated database services, but we are still interested about Trove as a native DBaaS project that well integrates into OpenStack and</div><div>provides multitenancy, redundancy, and so on.</div><div><br></div><div>I would be very pleased if we could get more in contact with OpenStack Trove Team somehow, to establish some sort of dialogue and to see </div><div>more what we could build and provide based on that project.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div><p><img style="width: 1.7708in; height: 0.3229in;" src="https://www.citynetwork.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CityNetwork-Logo-Regular-2015-RGB.png" width="170" height="31" id="gmail-m_-6188191652239475537webClient__x0000_i1025" border="0"></p><p><strong>Bekir Fajkovic</strong><br>Senior DBA<br>Mobile: +46 70 019 48 47<br><br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.citynetwork.eu/" target="_blank">www.citynetwork.eu</a> | <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.citycloud.com/" target="_blank">www.citycloud.com</a><br><br>INNOVATION THROUGH OPEN IT INFRASTRUCTURE<br>ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, 27015 & 27018 CERTIFIED</p></div></div>
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