[openstack-dev] [Heat] Heat Resource Plugin for third party storage

Pradip Mukhopadhyay pradip.interra at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 13:27:47 UTC 2014


Thanks, Zane for pointing out the right mailing list.



--pradip


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Zane Bitter <zbitter at redhat.com> wrote:

> The developer mailing list is not for usage questions. Please ask this on
> ask.openstack.org - I'm sure a lot of people will be interested in the
> answer and we want it searchable for them in future. Feel free to ping me
> with a link when you've posted it.
>
> cheers,
> Zane.
>
> On 12/11/14 06:00, Pradip Mukhopadhyay wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> We come across this:
>> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/pluginguide.html
>>
>>
>> Looks like it solves three of the purposes listed below:
>>
>> 1. Define a custom resource type with properties and attributes
>> 2. Register the resource to the Hear orchestrator
>> 3. Write a driver/plugin (most likely the Life Cycle methods) which can
>> create/manage the resources when encounter from the Heat orchestration
>> engine.
>>
>>
>> Am I right?
>>
>>
>> Now the question is: in one place it is mentioned as:
>>
>> "
>> It defines methods corresponding to the life cycle as well as the basic
>> hooks for plug-ins to handle the work of communicating with specific
>> down-stream services
>> "
>>
>>
>> Can this down-stream service be /anything/ (say a third-party storage
>> array)? Or it has to be a OpenStack service only?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Pradip
>>
>>
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