In addition, here are several related links: etherpad with some collected requirements: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/UnifiedAgents initial thread about unified agents: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/thread.html#18276 Thanks. On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Dmitry Mescheryakov < dmescheryakov at mirantis.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > We would like to push further the discussion on unified guest agent. You > may find the details of our proposal at [1]. > > Also let me clarify why we started this conversation. Savanna currently > utilizes SSH to install/configure Hadoop on VMs. We were happy with that > approach until recently we realized that in many OpenStack deployments VMs > are not accessible from controller. That brought us to idea to use guest > agent for VM configuration instead. That approach is already used by Trove, > Murano and Heat and we can do the same. > > Uniting the efforts on a single guest agent brings a couple advantages: > 1. Code reuse across several projects. > 2. Simplified deployment of OpenStack. Guest agent requires additional > facilities for transport like message queue or something similar. Sharing > agent means projects can share transport/config and hence ease life of > deployers. > > We see it is a library and we think that Oslo is a good place for it. > > Naturally, since this is going to be a _unified_ agent we seek input from > all interested parties. > > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/UnifiedGuestAgent > > Thanks, > > Dmitry > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Sincerely yours, Sergey Lukjanov Savanna Technical Lead Mirantis Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20131207/36c57b23/attachment.html>