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On 25/07/13 19:07, Bartosz Górski wrote:
> We want to start from something simple. At the beginning we are assuming
> no dependencies between resources from different region. Our first use
> case (the one on the wikipage) uses this assumptions. So this is why it
> can be easily split on two separate single region templates.
>
> Our goal is to support dependencies between resources from different
> regions. Our second use case (I will add it with more details to the
> wikipage soon) is similar to deploying two instances (app server + db
> server) wordpress in two different regions (app server in the first
> region and db server in the second). Regions will be connected to each
> other via VPN connection . In this case configuration of app server
> depends on db server. We need to know IP address of created DB server to
> properly configure App server. It forces us to wait with creating app
> server until db server will be created.

That's still a fairly simple case that could be handled by a pair of 
OS::Heat::Stack resources (one provides a DBServerIP output it is passed 
as a parameter to the other region using {'Fn::GetAtt': 
['FirstRegionStack', 'Outputs.DBServerIP']}. But it's possible to 
imagine circumstances where that approach is at least suboptimal (e.g. 
when creating the actual DB server is comparatively quick, but we have 
to wait for the entire template, which might be slow).

> More complicated use case with load balancers and more regions are also
> in ours minds.

Good to know, thanks. I'll look forward to reading more about it on the 
wiki.

What I'd like to avoid is a situation where anything _appears_ to be 
possible (Nova server and Cinder volume in different regions? Sure! 
Connect 'em together? Sure!), and the user only finds out later that it 
doesn't work. It would be much better to structure the templates in such 
a way that only things that are legitimate are expressible. That's not 
an achievable goal, but IMO we want to be much closer to the latter than 
the former.

cheers,
Zane.