Open Stack

>From a technical point of view, not forking and using a native library
makes total sense. I think it would likely be faster and certainly cleaner
than parsing output. Unfortunately I don't think that we have the resources
to actively maintain the library. I think that's the main blocker for me.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Vladimir Kuklin <vkuklin at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Puppetmaster and Fuelers,
>
> Last week I mentioned that I would like to bring the theme of using native
> ruby OpenStack client and use it within the providers.
>
> Emilien told me that I had already been late and the decision was made
> that puppet-openstack decided to not work with Aviator based on [0]. I went
> through this thread and did not find any unresolvable issues with using
> Aviator in comparison with potential benefits it could have brought up.
>
> What I saw actually was like that:
>
> * Pros
>
> 1) It is a native ruby client
> 2) We can import it in puppet and use all the power of Ruby
> 3) We will not need to have a lot of forks/execs for puppet
> 4) You are relying on negotiated and structured output provided by API
> (JSON) instead of introducing workarounds for client output like [1]
>
> * Cons
>
> 1) Aviator is not actively supported
> 2) Aviator does not track all the upstream OpenStack features while native
> OpenStack client does support them
> 3) Ruby community is not really interested in OpenStack (this one is
> arguable, I think)
>
> * Proposed solution
>
> While I completely understand all the cons against using Aviator right
> now, I see that Pros above are essential enough to change our mind and
> invest our own resources into creating really good OpenStack binding in
> Ruby.
> Some are saying that there is not so big involvement of Ruby into
> OpenStack. But we are actually working with Puppet/Ruby and are invloved
> into community. So why should not we own this by ourselves and lead by
> example here?
>
> I understand that many of you do already have a lot of things on their
> plate and cannot or would not want to support things like additional
> library when native OpenStack client is working reasonably well for you.
> But if I propose the following scheme to get support of native Ruby client
> for OpenStack:
>
> 1) we (community) have these resources (speaking of the company I am
> working for, we at Mirantis have a set of guys who could be very interested
> in working on Ruby client for OpenStack)
> 2) we gradually improve Aviator code base up to the level that it
> eliminates issues that are mentioned in  'Cons' section
> 3) we introduce additional set of providers and allow users and operators
> to pick whichever they want
> 4) we leave OpenStackClient default one
>
> Would you support it and allow such code to be merged into upstream
> puppet-openstack modules?
>
>
> [0]
> https://groups.google.com/a/puppetlabs.com/forum/#!searchin/puppet-openstack/aviator$20openstackclient/puppet-openstack/GJwDHNAFVYw/ayN4cdg3EW0J
> [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/puppet-swift/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/swift_ring_builder.rb#L21-L86
> --
> Yours Faithfully,
> Vladimir Kuklin,
> Fuel Library Tech Lead,
> Mirantis, Inc.
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