Hi,
my attempt at giving an overview of what we discussed in the publiccloud-sig vPTG meeting.
We’ve met once on Tuesday for couple hours and used the regular Wednesday slot for a re-cap
of the discussion on the day before as well as what we’ve learned in the nova operator hour - but
more on that further down below.
We've set out to discuss the following topics:
The etherpad for the 2024.1 vPTG is here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-publiccloud-sig
We've discussed how we (PublicCloud-SIG) think the way forward should look like and aligned ourselves
that we need to write the proper specs for nova and glance.
As part of the discussion, aside from the SCS (Sovereign Cloud Stack) initiative on standardizing
items here, we were made aware of the efforts within gaia-x to standardize properties here[1][2].
With that in mind we (gtema and fkr) joined the nova-operator hour (which was directly after the
PublicCloud-SIG meeting)[3]. The outcome of the nova operator hour was then something completely
different. It was agreed[3] that we look at the metadefs and possibly also look into a new nova
api that gives back flavors based on standard traits and resources (min/max)[4].
For the domain admin support there is currently quite a bit of activity from the SCS Side
of things[5]. From those efforts also items like [6] are coming.
From the discussion in the PublicCloud SIG it became apparent to us that with the
touch points that the PublicCloud SIG has it is to us to 'represent' the stakeholders
of PublicCloud-functionality towards the development efforts of OpenStack projects.
Driving this thought further, we (Public Cloud SIG) should become more active and see
wether we can fulfil the role of a ProductOwner towards the OpenStack projects to
work towards an better alignment between them in order to provide an overall better
experience for entities operating public clouds with OpenStack.
We will ask OpenInfra wether they can provide us a list of contacts of people at entities
that operate public clouds with OpenStack or wether they could mail them for us in order
to foster more involvement in the publiccloud SIG meetings.
Thanks to everyone who participates as well as the people from the nova operator hour
for the insights.
felix
[1] <url: https://github.com/SovereignCloudStack/gx-self-description-generator/issues/66#issuecomment-1776821063>
[2] <url: https://gitlab.com/gaia-x/technical-committee/service-characteristics/-/blob/262-transform-virtual-machine-service-offering-to-linkml/single-point-of-truth/22.10/device.yaml>
[3] <url: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-operator-hour-nova#L106>
[4] <url: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-operator-hour-nova#L120>
[5] <url: https://github.com/SovereignCloudStack/standards/blob/main/Standards/scs-0302-v1-domain-manager-role.md>
[6] <url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2041611>