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Thank you so much  Duncan.


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Duncan Thomas <duncan.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All excellent advice from Eduard. To confirm:
> - You will definitely need to write your driver in python.
> - Devstack is the recommended environment for development
> - Please look at the third party CI requirements for cinder drivers -
> these are an ongoing commitment
>
> The IRC channel #openstack-cinder on irc.freenode.net is the easiest
> way to chat to cinder developers realtime, please feel free to join us
> there.
>
> Welcome to the cinder community.
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> Duncan Thomas
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> On 30 October 2014 11:50, 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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