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On 13 нояб. 2013 г., at 6:39, Angus Salkeld <asalkeld at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/13 15:13 -0800, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
>> Given the recent discussion of scheduled autoscaling at the summit session
>> on autoscaling, I looked into the state of scheduling-as-a-service in and
>> around OpenStack. I found two relevant wiki pages:
>> 
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/EventScheduler
>> 
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral/Cloud_Cron_details
>> 
>> The first one proposes and describes in some detail a new service and API
>> strictly for scheduling the invocation of webhooks.
>> 
>> The second one describes a part of Mistral (in less detail) to basically do
>> the same, except executing taskflows directly.
>> 
>> Here's the first question: should scalable cloud scheduling exist strictly
>> as a feature of Mistral, or should it be a separate API that only does
>> event scheduling? Mistral could potentially make use of the event
>> scheduling API (or just rely on users using that API directly to get it to
>> execute their task flows).
>> 

Good point. We changed our opinion on that several times by now. We need to have a closer look at this API in order to understand what would be the best responsibility distribution here. But basically yes, Mistral might not contain that if this API makes a value of using it somewhere else.


>> Second question: if the proposed "EventScheduler" becomes a real project,
>> which OpenStack Program should it live under?
>> 
>> Third question: Is anyone actively working on this stuff? :)
> 

Yes, we started actively working on this. And you’re very welcome to join :)

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/TaskServiceDesign
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/TaskFlowAndMistral
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MistralQuestionsBeforeImplementation
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MistralRoadmap
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MistralAPISpecification
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MistralDSLSpecification

And we have a meeting at #openstack-meeting on Mondays at 16.00 UTC.

> Your work mates;) https://github.com/rackerlabs/qonos
> 
> how about merge qonos into mistral, or at lest put it into stack forge?

Worth considering, we need to think it over.

> -Angus
>> 
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