Open Stack

Hi,


I am really excited to see Solum announcement. This is a fantastic idea to
create developer friendly environment for application creation on
OpenStack. I believe that this developer friendly environment will attract
a lot of developers who want to write software for OpenStack platform. I
think Solum will bring PaaS features to OpenStack and converts OpenStack
from pure IaaS to a more complete OpenStack platform.


I represent the Murano team who works on middle level orchestration for
application installation. Murano initially had started as Windows services
automation but we recently defined more broad roadmap for Murano service.
Here is our view on Murano roadmap
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano/ApplicationServiceCatalog.

Our idea is to bring existing 3rd party applications and services like
Microsoft AD, MS Sharepoint  to OpenStack platform by providing an
integration layer for both software creators and software users. We want to
provide a publishing mechanism for service creators and self-service
catalog for end users.


I see that Murano service is complimentary to Solum. While you are
providing a framework to create a new application, this application still
may have a dependencies from existing software components which may be
provisioned by Murano. It will be beneficial for Solum to be able to
request any 3rd party software listed in Murano catalog and provision it in
application environment. Application developer will be focused on actual
development without spending time on solving the problems of 3rd party
components deployment.


We already have working service for OpenStack which allows to deploy
complex applications over multiple VMs in order to prepare an environment
for some specific application. We provide a simple UI which allows you
configure application environments in easy way by adding software services
like Active Directory, MS SQL cluster, IIS server farm.


I and potentially some of our Murano team members would like to participate
in Solum design and development. Do you have design sessions scheduled?
What will be the best way to discuss integration between these services?

--
Georgy Okrokvertskhov

Mirantis
http://www.mirantis.com
Tel. +1 650 963 9828
Mob. +1 650 996 3284
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