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On 7/9/2014 12:33 PM, Tiwari, Arvind wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am investigating on inter cloud resource federation across OS based
> cloud deployments, this is needed to support multi regions, cloud
> bursting, VPC and more use cases. I came up with a design (link below)
> which advocate a new service (a.k.a. Alliance), this service sits close
> to Keystone and help abstracting all the inter cloud concerns from
> Keystone. This service will be abstracted from end users and there won’t
> be any direct interactions between user and Alliance service. Keystone
> will be delegating all inter cloud concerns to Alliance.
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Inter_Cloud_Resource_Federation
>
> Apart from basic resource federation use cases, Alliance service will
> add following features
>
> 1.UUID token support across cloud
>
> 2.PKI Token support
>
> 3.Inter Cloud Token Validation
>
> 4.Inter Cloud Communication to allow
>
> •Region/endpoint Discovery
>
> •Service Discovery
>
> •Remote Resource Provisioning
>
> 5.Resource Access Across Clouds
>
> 6.SSO Across Cloud
>
> 7.SSOut Across Cloud (or Inter Cloud Token Revocation)
>
> 8.Notification to propagate meter info, resource de-provisioning ….
>
> I would appreciate if you guys take a look and share your perspective. I
> am open to any questions, suggestions, discussions on the same.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Arvind
>
> *Please excuse any typographical error.***
>
>
>
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Is this only identity (keystone) are other things like booting instances 
in nova from public/private clouds which are abstracted from the client, 
and if so have you heard of nova-cells?

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann