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I'm pleased to announce the development of a new project Kolla which is 
Greek for glue :). Kolla has a goal of providing an implementation that 
deploys OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker. This project will begin 
as a StackForge project separate from the TripleO/Deployment program 
code base. Our long term goal is to merge into the TripleO/Deployment 
program rather then create a new program.


Docker is a container technology for delivering hermetically sealed 
applications and has about 620 technical contributors [1]. We intend to 
produce docker images for a variety of platforms beginning with Fedora 
20. We are completely open to any distro support, so if folks want to 
add new Linux distribution to Kolla please feel free to submit patches :)


Kubernetes at the most basic level is a Docker scheduler produced by and 
used within Google [2]. Kubernetes has in excess of 100 technical 
contributors. Kubernetes is more then just a scheduler, it provides 
additional functionality such as load balancing and scaling and has a 
significant roadmap.


The #tripleo channel on Freenode will be used for Kolla developer and 
user communication. Even though we plan to become part of the Deployment 
program long term, as we experiment we believe it is best to hold a 
separate weekly one hour IRC meeting on Mondays at 2000 UTC in 
#openstack-meeting [3].


This project has been discussed with the current TripleO PTL (Robert 
Collins) and he seemed very supportive and agreed with the organization 
of the project outlined above. James Slagle, a TripleO core developer, 
has kindly offered to liase between Kolla and the broader TripleO 
community.


I personally feel it is necessary to start from a nearly empty 
repository when kicking off a new project. As a result, there is limited 
code in the repository [4] at this time. I suspect folks will start 
cranking out a kick-ass implementation once the Kolla/Stackforge 
integration support is reviewed by the infra team [5].


The initial core team is composed of Steven Dake, Ryan Hallisey, James 
Lebocki, Jeff Peeler, James Slagle, Lars Kellogg-Sedman, and David 
Vossel. The core team will be reviewed every 6 weeks to add fresh 
developers.


Please join the core team in designing and inventing this rockin' new 
technology!


Regards
-steve


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[1] https://github.com/docker/docker [2] 
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes

[3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Kolla [4] 
https://github.com/jlabocki/superhappyfunshow [5] 
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/122972/

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