[openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal

Dmitry Mescheryakov dmescheryakov at mirantis.com
Wed Dec 18 17:32:30 UTC 2013


Clint, do you mean
  * use os-collect-config and its HTTP transport as a base for the PoC
or
  * migrate os-collect-config on PoC after it is implemented on
oslo.messaging

I presume the later, but could you clarify?



2013/12/18 Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com>

> 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.
>
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