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Hi Adrian,

really intersting! I wonder what the relation to all the software
orchestration in Heat discussions is that have been going on for a while
now.

Regards,
Thomas

Adrian Otto <adrian.otto at rackspace.com> wrote on 23.10.2013 21:03:10:
> From: Adrian Otto <adrian.otto at rackspace.com>
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> Date: 23.10.2013 21:07
> Subject: [openstack-dev] Announcing Project Solum
>
> 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
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adrian Otto_______________________________________________
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