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On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Jonathan D. Proulx <jon at csail.mit.edu>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Shamail wrote:
> :> On Oct 9, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
> :>
> :>> On 10/09/2015 11:21 AM, Shamail wrote:
> :>>
> :>>
> :>>> On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
> :>>>
> :>>> It looks like some great conversation got going on the service catalog
> :>>> standardization spec / discussion at the last cross project meeting.
> :>>> Sorry I wasn't there to participate.
> :>> Apologize if this is a question that has already been address but why
> can't we just leverage something like consul.io?
> :>
> :> It's a good question and there have actually been some discussions
> about leveraging it on the backend. However, even if we did, we'd still
> need keystone to provide the multi-tenancy view on the subject. consul
> wasn't designed (quite correctly I think) to be a user-facing service for
> 50k users.
> :>
> :> I think it would be an excellent backend.
> :Thanks, that makes sense.  I agree that it might be a good backend but
> not the overall solution... I was bringing it up to ensure we consider
> existing options (where possible) and spend cycles on the unsolved bits.
>
> As an operator I'd be happy to use SRV records to define endpoints,
> though multiple regions could make that messy.
>
> would we make subdomins per region or include region name in the
> service name?
>
> _compute-regionone._tcp.example.com
>                -vs-
> _compute._tcp.regionone.example.com
>
> Also not all operators can controll their DNS to this level so it
> couldn't be the only option.
>
> Or are you talking about using an internal DNS implementation private
> to the OpenStack Deployment?  I'm actually a bit less happy with that
> idea.
>

I was able to put together an implementation[1] of DNS-SD loosely based on
RFC-6763[2]. It'd really a proof of concept, but we've talked so much about
it that I decided to get something working. Although if this seems like a
viable option then there's still much work to be done.

I'd love feedback.

1. https://gist.github.com/dstanek/093f851fdea8ebfd893d
2. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6763

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