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Excerpts from Dmitry Mescheryakov's message of 2013-12-17 08:01:38 -0800:
> Folks,
> 
> The discussion didn't result in a consensus, but it did revealed a great
> number of things to be accounted. I've tried to summarize top-level points
> in the etherpad [1]. It lists only items everyone (as it seems to me)
> agrees on, or suggested options where there was no consensus. Let me know
> if i misunderstood or missed something. The etherpad does not list
> advantages/disadvantages of options, otherwise it just would be too long.
> Interested people might search the thread for the arguments :-) .
> 
> I've thought it over and I agree with people saying we need to move
> further. Savanna needs the agent and I am going to write a PoC for it. Sure
> the PoC will be implemented in project-independent way. I still think that
> Salt limitations overweight its advantages, so the PoC will be done on top
> of oslo.messaging without Salt. At least we'll have an example on how it
> might look.
> 
> Most probably I will have more questions in the process, for instance we
> didn't finish discussion on enabling networking for the agent yet. In that
> case I will start a new, more specific thread in the list.

If you're not going to investigate using salt, can I suggest you base
your POC on os-collect-config? It it would not take much to add two-way
communication to it.