Open Stack

On 10/23/2013 03:03 PM, Adrian Otto wrote:
> OpenStack,
> 
> OpenStack has emerged as the preferred choice for open cloud software
> worldwide. We use it to power our cloud, and we love it. We’re proud to
> be a part of growing its capabilities to address more needs every
> day. When we ask customers, partners, and community members about what
> problems they want to solve next, we have consistently found a few areas
> where OpenStack has room to grow in addressing the needs of software
> developers:
> 
>     1)   Ease of application development and deployment via integrated
>     support for Git, CI/CD, and IDEs
> 
>     2)   Ease of application lifecycle management across dev, test, and
>     production types of environments -- supported by the Heat
>     project’s automated orchestration (resource deployment,
>     monitoring-based self-healing, auto-scaling, etc.)
> 
>     3)   Ease of application portability between public and private
>     clouds -- with no vendor-driven requirements within the application
>     stack or control system
> 
> 
> Along with eBay, RedHat, Ubuntu/Canonical, dotCloud/Docker, Cloudsoft,
> and Cumulogic, we at Rackspace are happy to announce we have started
> project Solum as an OpenStack Related open source project. Solum is a
> community-driven initiative currently in its open design phase amongst
> the seven contributing companies with more to come.
> 
> We plan to leverage the capabilities already offered in OpenStack in
> addressing these needs so anyone running an OpenStack cloud can make it
> easier to use for developers. By leveraging your existing
> OpenStack cloud, the aim of Project Solum is to reduce the number of
> services you need to manage in tackling these developer needs. You can
> use all the OpenStack services you already run instead of standing up
> overlapping, vendor-specific capabilities to accomplish this.
> 
> We welcome you to join us to build this exciting new addition to the
> OpenStack ecosystem.
> 
> *Project Wiki*
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Solum
> 
> *Lauchpad Project*
> _https://launchpad.net/solum_
> 
> *IRC*
> Public IRC meetings are held on Tuesdays 1600 UTC
> _irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/solum_

Cool stuff!  I'm very happy to see a group of people looking to attack
this problem space with a solution that takes advantage of OpenStack
services as much as possible.  I look forward to seeing how this comes
together.

Thanks!

-- 
Russell Bryant