Open Stack

Hello Everybody,

A challenge we've experienced with using OpenStack is discovering, sharing, and correlating metadata across services and different types of resources. We believe this affects both end users and administrators.

For end users, the UI can be too technical and require too much pre-existing knowledge of OpenStack concepts. For example, when you launch instances, you should be able to just specify categories like "Big Data" or an "OS Family" and let the system find the boot source for you, whether that is an image, snapshot, or volume.  It should also allow finer grained filtering such as choosing specific versions of software that you want.

For administrators, we'd like there to be an easier way to meaningfully collaborate on properties across host aggregates, flavors, images, volumes, or other cloud resources. Today, this often involves searching wikis and opening the source code.

We, HP and Intel, believe that both of the above problems come back to needing a better way for users to collaborate on metadata across services and resource types.  We started project Graffiti to explore ideas and concepts for how to make this easier and more approachable for end users. We're asking for your input and participation to help us move forward!

To help explain the ideas of the project, we have created a quick screencast demonstrating the concepts running under POC code. Please take a look!


*         Graffiti Concepts Overview:

o   http://youtu.be/f0SZtPgcxk4

Please join with us to help refine the concepts and identify where we can best fit in to the ecosystem. We have a few blueprints, but they need additional support outside of the Horizon UI. We believe our best path is one where we can contribute the Graffiti service as either a new project in an existing program or as a series of enhancements to existing projects.  Your insight and feedback is important to us and we look forward to growing this initiative with you!

We have a design session at the summit where we'd love to have open discussion with all who can attend:

Juno Summit Design Session
http://sched.co/1m7wghx

For more info, please visit our wiki:

Project Wiki
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Graffiti

IRC
#graffiti on  Freenode<http://freenode.net/>

Related Blueprints
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/instance-launch-using-capability-filtering
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/faceted-search
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/tagging
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/host-aggregate-update-metadata
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-cinderclient/+spec/support-volume-image-metadata

Thank you,
Travis Tripp


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