On 29/05/14 18:42, Tripp, Travis S wrote: > Hello everyone! > > At the summit in Atlanta we demonstrated the “Graffiti” project > concepts. We received very positive feedback from members of multiple > dev projects as well as numerous operators. We were specifically asked > multiple times about getting the Graffiti metadata catalog concepts into > Glance so that we can start to officially support the ideas we > demonstrated in Horizon. > > After a number of additional meetings at the summit and working through > ideas the past week, we’ve created the initial proposal for adding a > Metadata Catalog to Glance for capabilities and tags. This is distinct > from the “Artifact Catalog”, but we do see that capability and tag > catalog can be used with the artifact catalog. > > We’ve detailed our initial proposal in the following Google Doc. Mark > Washenberger agreed that this was a good place to capture the initial > proposal and we can later move it over to the Glance spec repo which > will be integrated with Launchpad blueprints soon. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cS2tJZrj748ZsttAabdHJDzkbU9nML5S4oFktFNNd68 > > Please take a look and let’s discuss! > > Also, the following video is a brief recap of what was demo’ d at the > summit. It should help to set a lot of understanding behind the ideas > in the proposal. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhrthnq1bnw > > Thank you! > > Travis Tripp (HP) > > Murali Sundar (Intel) > > *A Few Related Blueprints * > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/instance-launch-using-capability-filtering > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/tagging > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/faceted-search > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/host-aggregate-update-metadata > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-cinderclient/+spec/support-volume-image-metadata +1, this is something that will be increasingly important to orchestration. The folks working on the TOSCA (and others) -> HOT translator project might be able to comment in more detail, but basically as people start wanting to write templates that run on multiple clouds (potentially even non-OpenStack clouds) some sort of catalog for capabilities will become crucial. cheers, Zane.