[openstack-dev] [new][cloudpulse] Announcing a project to HealthCheck OpenStack deployments
Dieterly, Deklan
deklan.dieterly at hp.com
Wed May 13 15:31:10 UTC 2015
How is the different/same as Monasca?
Regards.
--
Deklan Dieterly
Hewlett-Packard Company
Sr. Systems Software Engineer
HP Cloud
On 5/12/15, 11:48 AM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>For operators:
>
>* Nagios
>* Icinga
>* Zabbix
>
>installed on baremetal machines deployed with the OpenStack and other
>infrastructure services.
>
>For tenants:
>
>* Nagios
>* Icinga
>* Zabbix
>
>installed on their VMs.
>
>Why are we re-inventing excellent open-source implementations of
>monitoring systems that have been around for over a decade?
>
>Best,
>-jay
>
>p.s. Sorry for top-posting.
>
>On 05/12/2015 01:20 PM, Vinod Pandarinathan (vpandari) wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce the development of a new project called
>> CloudPulse. CloudPulse provides Openstack
>> health-checking services to both operators, tenants, and applications.
>> This project will begin as
>> a StackForge project based upon an empty cookiecutter[1] repo. The
>> repos to work in are:
>> Server: https://github.com/stackforge/cloudpulse
>> Client: https://github.com/stackforge/python-cloudpulseclient
>>
>> Please join us via iRC on #openstack-cloudpulse on freenode.
>>
>> I am holding a doodle poll to select times for our first meeting the
>> week after summit. This doodle poll will close May 24th and meeting
>> times will be announced on the mailing list at that time. At our first
>> IRC meeting,
>> we will draft additional core team members, so if your interested in
>> joining a fresh new development effort, please attend our first meeting.
>> Please take a moment if your interested in CloudPulse to fill out the
>> doodle poll here:
>>
>> https://doodle.com/kcpvzy8kfrxe6rvb
>>
>> The initial core team is composed of
>> Ajay Kalambur,
>> Behzad Dastur, Ian Wells, Pradeep chandrasekhar, Steven DakeandVinod
>> Pandarinathan.
>> I expect more members to join during our initial meeting.
>>
>> A little bit about CloudPulse:
>> Cloud operators need notification of OpenStack failures before a
>> customer reports the failure. Cloud operators can then take timely
>> corrective actions with minimal disruption to applications. Many cloud
>> applications, including
>> those I am interested in (NFV) have very stringent service level
>> agreements. Loss of service can trigger contractual
>> costs associated with the service. Application high availability
>> requires an operational OpenStack Cloud, and the reality
>> is that occascionally OpenStack clouds fail in some mysterious ways.
>> This project intends to identify when those failures
>> occur so corrective actions may be taken by operators, tenants, and the
>> applications themselves.
>>
>> OpenStack is considered healthy when OpenStack API services respond
>> appropriately. Further OpenStack is
>> healthy when network traffic can be sent between the tenant networks and
>> can access the Internet. Finally OpenStack
>> is healthy when all infrastructure cluster elements are in an
>> operational state.
>>
>> For information about blueprints check out:
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cloudpulse
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-cloudpulseclient
>>
>> For more details, check out our Wiki:
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cloudpulse
>>
>> Plase join the CloudPulse team in designing and implementing a
>> world-class Carrier Grade system for checking
>> the health of OpenStack clouds. We look forward to seeing you on IRC on
>> #openstack-cloudpulse.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vinod Pandarinathan
>> [1] https://github.com/openstack-dev/cookiecutter
>>
>>
>>
>>
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