[openstack-dev] [Heat] Future Vision for Heat

Thomas Spatzier thomas.spatzier at de.ibm.com
Tue Apr 16 16:05:01 UTC 2013


Hi Adrian,

Adrian Otto <adrian.otto at rackspace.com> wrote on 16.04.2013 17:24:56:
> From: Adrian Otto <adrian.otto at rackspace.com>
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> Date: 16.04.2013 17:26
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Future Vision for Heat
>
> Thanks Thomas. Good point.
>
> In that case, wwe could just consider the one within the blue area
> to have the label "Parser" and that should clarify matters. I'm
> happy to make tweaks to clarify it.

Maybe we can also come up with a better term than "parser". Would be
interested what the Heat core team thinks.

Regards,
Thomas

>
> Adrian
>
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: Thomas Spatzier <thomas.spatzier at de.ibm.com>
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> Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 14:22:07 GMT+00:00
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Future Vision for Heat

> Hi Adrian,
>
> thanks for taking writing this up to capture yesterday's discussions.
> I don't fully understand what the difference or overlap of the Model
> Interpreter inside the main blue box and the Model Interpreter in the
green
> box is. My understanding was that a Model Interpreter would be something
> that translates an external format (such as CFN, TOSCA, whatever) to the
> core Heat DSL. And then there would be one component which looks at the
> common DSL model to derive the deployment plan (I think somebody said
this
> is what the "parser" does today).
> I think having to partly re-implement the interpreter (in the sense of
> compiling a concrete deployment plan directly) for various external
formats
> could be complicated.
>
> Adrian Otto <adrian.otto at rackspace.com> wrote on 16.04.2013 10:56:23:
>
> > From: Adrian Otto <adrian.otto at rackspace.com>
> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> > Date: 16.04.2013 10:57
> > Subject: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Future Vision for Heat
> >
> > Heaters,
> >
> > I attended the various sessions at the Design Summit today in
> > Portland, and assembled as many of the ideas for future planning as
> > I could.  For the benefit of those who are not attending, or who
> > were not in these sessions, I created this Wiki page to express what
> > I think is an early consensus on where we could take things. Let's
> > tweak this if it's not a good direction.
> >
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat/Vision
> >
> > Keith will be doing an Unconference session on the Workflow Service
> > idea… I believe on Wednesday afternoon.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Adrian
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