[openstack-dev] Announcing Fuel

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Dec 16 21:28:27 UTC 2013


On 17 December 2013 09:59, Mike Scherbakov <mscherbakov at mirantis.com> wrote:
> Thanks for support,
> as a starting point we have chosen Ironic - we really want to see it as a
> replacement of Fuel's existing provisioning layer, with an intention of
> participation and delivery of many features which we already know from the
> real-world installations with Fuel.
>
> We are trying to be more test-driven, so starting our contributions as proof
> of concept for functional testing framework for Ironic:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62410/2, see the description in README
> file: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62410/2/irci/README.md
> Distributed envs testing, especially PXE booting is the area of our
> interest. Next, we plan to collaboratively work on torrent-based
> provisioning driver.

Cool.

Rather than torrents you may prefer a multicast driver, it should be
about 50% network utilisation, linear IO for the target disk - much
better.

Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud



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