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Thank you so much Eduard :).


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Eduard Matei <
eduard.matei at cloudfounders.com> wrote:

> Hi Darshan,
> Having just finished writing a volume driver i can say you need a lot of
> patience.
> First, to quickly answer your questions:
> 1. Read ALL the drivers in the official repo: (
> https://github.com/openstack/cinder/tree/master/cinder/volume/drivers)
> and how they relate to the cinder-api (
> https://github.com/openstack/cinder/tree/master/cinder/api); then look
> into (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder), especially the part about
> plugins and "configuring devstack to user your driver and backend);
> 2. As far as i could tell, python is the only way.
> 3. You should try devstack (it's easier to setup, quicker, and always
> gives you latest code so you can develop against the latest version).
>
> After that, the rest is just "bureaucracy" :) (become a contributor, sign
> up for some services, get your code reviewed on gerrit, etc).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Eduard
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Darshan Ghumare <
> darshan.ghumare at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I need to write a volume driver so that I can integrate our storage
>> product into openstack.
>> I have following questions about the sane,
>> 1. How should I go about it?
>> 2. I donnot know python. Is the python only way to write a driver?
>> 3. I have setup openstack by following  steps mentioned at
>> http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/install-guide/install/apt/content/.
>> To test the drive do I also need to have a development environment (
>> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/cinder/devref/development.environment.html
>> )?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Darshan
>>
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