Hi Bekir,
As Trove PTL, thanks for your interest in Trove.
Trove is not dead or abandoned, it's actively developed and maintained, other than catalyst cloud, there are some other contributors coming from other cloud providers as well. We (catalyst cloud) have just deployed Trove Ussuri in production, and will soon upgrade to Victoria to get benefits of the added features and bugfixes. I would recommend you read the Victoria project update to get an impression of the latest project status http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-October/017772.h... .
Trove team is so small that we don't have regular meetings, but feel free to get in touch via IRC (#openstack-trove) or email.
--- Lingxian Kong Senior Cloud Engineer Catalyst Cloud www.catalystcloud.nz
--- Lingxian Kong Senior Software Engineer Catalyst Cloud www.catalystcloud.nz
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:31 AM Bekir Fajkovic < bekir.fajkovic@citynetwork.eu> wrote:
Hello!
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 cloud-based services and solutions based mostly on OpenStack.
We are about to evaluate the OpenStack project Trove in order to try to provide a reasonable and robust kind of DBaaS solution to our customers. As a first step i created a test environment based on DevStack (based in turn on latest release of OpenStack) including Trove (version 14.1.0.dev18) and i am currently evaluating the things. I see many promising features, like Docker-based deployments of database instances on dedicated images possible to be created and configured through Trove utilities, also some important security improvements of RabbitMQ message handling ensuring encryption key usage in communication with the db instances etc.. 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 out by us.
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 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 to DBaaS development.
I know that many DBaaS projects are nowadays based on Kubernetes and development of specific operators that provide certain kind of automated database services, but we are still interested about Trove as a native DBaaS project that well integrates into OpenStack and provides multitenancy, redundancy, and so on.
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 more what we could build and provide based on that project.
Best Regards
*Bekir Fajkovic* Senior DBA Mobile: +46 70 019 48 47
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