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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We would like to introduce you a new container project for OpenStack called Higgins (might be renamed later [1]).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Higgins is a Container Management service for OpenStack. The key objective of the Higgins project is to enable tight integration between OpenStack and container technologies. In before, there is no perfect solution
that can effectively bring containers to OpenStack. Magnum provides service to provision and manage Container Orchestration Engines (COEs), such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Apache Mesos, on top of Nova instances, but container management is out of its
scope [2]. Nova-docker enables operating Docker containers from existing Nova APIs, but it can't support container features that go beyond the compute model. Heat docker plugin allows using Docker containers as Heat resources, but it has a similar limitation
as nova-docker. Generally speaking, OpenStack is lack of a container management service that can integrate containers with OpenStack, and Higgins is created to fill the gap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Higgins aims to provide an OpenStack-native API for launching and managing containers backed by different container technologies, such as Docker, Rocket etc. Higgins doesn't require calling other services/tools
to provision the container infrastructure. Instead, it relies on existing infrastructure that is setup by operators. In our vision, the key value Higgins brings to OpenStack is enabling one platform for provisioning and managing VMs, baremetals, and containers
as compute resource. In particular, VMs, baremetals, and containers will share the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single authentication and authorization system: Keystone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single UI Dashboard: Horizon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single resource and quota management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single block storage pools: Cinder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single networking layer: Neutron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single CLI: OpenStackClient<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single image management: Glance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single Heat template for orchestration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- Single resource monitoring and metering system: Telemetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">For more information, please find below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Higgins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The core team: https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/1382,members<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Team meeting: Every Tuesday 0300 UTC at #openstack-meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">NOTE: we are looking for feedback to shape the project roadmap. If you're interested in this project, we appreciate your inputs in the etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/container-management-service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The Higgins team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/095746.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/311476/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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