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Hi all,

just a few thoughts (subjective opinions) regarding the whole debate:

* I think that having a manually picking images for machines approach 
would make TripleO more usable in the beginning. I think it will take a 
good deal of time to get our smart solution working with the admin 
rather than against him [1], and a possibility of manual override is a 
good safety catch.

E.g. one question that i wonder about - how would our smart flavor-based 
approach solve this situation: I have homogenous nodes on which i want 
to deploy Cinder and Swift. Half of those nodes has better connectivity 
to the internet than the other half. I want Swift on the ones with 
better internet connectivity. How will i ensure such deployment with 
flavor-based approach? Could we use e.g. host aggregates defined on the 
undercloud for this? I think it will take time before our smart solution 
can understand such and similar conditions.

* On the other hand, i think relying on Nova to pick hosts feels more 
TripleO-spirited solution to me. It means using OpenStack to deploy 
OpenStack.

So i can't really lean towards one solution or the other. Maybe it's 
most important to make *something*, gather some feedback, and tweak what 
needs tweaking.


Cheers

Jirka


[1] http://i.technet.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC284957.jpg