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Hi folks,

Thanks for the fruitful discussion on the summit: seems like we are in
agreement and have a good plan to proceed.

Here is the video recording of the PoC I've made to serve the current
AppCatalog's data using Glance Artifacts. As the demo was recorded before
the summit, it's called Glance V3 everywhere. Now we've agreed that this
will be a Glance Artifacts Repository (aka Glare) API v1 - but everything
else about its functionality is still valid :)

https://youtu.be/5IxKqJiD2xw

Please feel free to ask any questions you may have on the demo and Glare
functionality in general.

Thanks again


On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:38 AM Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 23/10/15 19:25 +0000, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> >The "Glance: Artefacts API" session was scheduled right on top of the
> "Nova:
> >Cross Service Issues: Service Lock Server, Service Tokens, Instance Users
> (TBC)
> >" session. The latter having been really hard to schedule since it
> involves so
> >many different projects and something I must attend. So I won't be able to
> >attend the glance session.
> >
> >The Murano folks have kindly offered to use one of their sessions:
> >Murano contributors meetup (9:00am-12:30pm)
> >
> http://mitakadesignsummit.sched.org/event/5e244fb7f342854dc5c112e76e77c930
> >to discuss Glance Artefacts/Murano integration/Community App Catalog
> needs.
> >
> >Can folks from the glance team that are interested in the discussion
> please
> >attend?
>
> Kevin, thanks for the heads up! I'll help spreading the word in case
> some folks missed this email.
>
> Flavio
>
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Kevin
> >
>
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> >From: Alexander Tivelkov [ativelkov at mirantis.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 3:04 AM
> >To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> >Subject: [openstack-dev] [app-catalog] [glance] [murano] Data Assets API
> for
> >App Catalog
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >I’ve noticed that the Community Application Catalog has begun to
> implement its
> >own API, and it seems to me that we are going to have some significant
> >duplication of efforts with the code which has already been implemented in
> >Glance as Artifact Repository initiative (also known as Glance V3).
> >From the very beginning of the App Catalog project (and I’ve been
> involved in
> >it since February) I’ve been proposing to use Glance as its backend,
> because
> >from my point of view it covers like 90% of the needed functionality. But
> it
> >looks like we have some kind of miscommunication here, as I am getting
> some
> >confusing questions and assumptions, like the vision of Glance V3 being
> >dedicated backend for Murano (which is definitely incorrect).
> >So, I am writing the email to clarify my vision of what Glance V3 is and
> how
> >its features may be used to provide the REST API for Community App
> Catalog.
> >
> >1.  Versioned schema
> >First of all, Glance V3 operates on entities called “artifacts”, and
> these ones
> >perfectly map to the Data Assets of community app catalog. The artifacts
> are
> >strongly typed: there are artifact types for murano packages, glance
> images,
> >heat templates - and there may be (and will be) more. Each artifact type
> is
> >represented by a plugin, defining the schema of objects’ data and
> metadata and
> >- optionally - custom logic. So, this thing is extensible: when a new
> type of
> >asset needs to be added to a catalog it can be done really quickly by just
> >defining the schema and putting that schema into a plugin. Also, these
> plugins
> >are versioned, so the possible changes in the schema are handled properly.
> >
> >2. Generic properties
> >Next, all the artifact types in Glance V3 have some generic metadata
> properties
> >(i.e. part of the schema which is common for all the types), including the
> >name, the version, description, authorship information and so on. This
> also
> >corresponds to the data schema of community app catalog. The mapping is
> not
> >1:1, but we can work together on this to make sure that these generic
> >properties match the expectations of the catalog.
> >
> >3. Versioning
> >Versions are very important for catalogs of objects, so Glance V3 was
> initially
> >designed keeping versioning questions in mind: each artifact has a
> semver-based
> >version assigned, so the artifacts having the same name but different
> versions
> >are grouped into the proper sequences. API is able to query artifacts
> based on
> >their version spec, e.g. it is possible to fetch the latest artifact with
> the
> >name “foo” having the version greater than 2.1 and less than 3.5.7 - or
> any
> >other version spec, similar to pip or any other similar tool. As far as I
> know,
> >community app catalog does not have such capabilities right now - and I
> >strongly believe that it is really a must have feature for a catalog to be
> >successful. At least it is absolutely mandatory for Murano packages,
> which are
> >the only “real apps” among the asset types right now.
> >
> >4. Cross artifact dependencies
> >Glance V3 also has the dependency relations from the very beginning, so
> they
> >may be defined as part of artifact type schema. As a result, an artifact
> may
> >“reference” any number of other artifacts with various semantic. For
> example,
> >murano package may define a set of references to other murano packages
> and call
> >it “requires” - and this will act similar to the requirements of a python
> >package. Similar properties may be defined for heat templates and glance
> images
> >- they may reference each other with various semantics.
> >Of course, the definitions of such dependencies may be done internally
> inside
> >the packages, so they may be resolved locally by the service which is
> going to
> >use it, but letting the catalog know about them will allow us to do the
> >import-export operations for any given artifacts and its dependencies
> >automatically, only by the means of the catalog itself.
> >
> >5. Search and filtering API
> >Right now Glance V3 API is in experimental state (we plan to stabilize it
> >during the Mitaka cycle), but it already provides quite good capabilities
> to
> >discover things. It can search artifacts by their type, name and
> (optionally)
> >aforementioned version specs, by tag or even by arbitrary set of metadata
> >properties. We have plans to integrate Glance V3 with the Searchlight
> project
> >to have even more index and search capabilities using its elastic search
> >engine.
> >
> >6. Data storage
> >As you probably know, Glance does not own the binary data of its images.
> >Instead, it provides an abstraction of the backend storage, which may be
> swift,
> >ceph, s3 or something else. The same approach is used in Glance V3 for
> >artifacts data, but with more per-type control: particular artifact types
> may
> >be configured independently to store their blobs in different backends.
> This
> >may be of use for Community App Catalog which operates on different
> storages
> >for its assets.
> >
> >7. Sharing and access control.
> >Glance V3 inherits the same access mechanics present in Glance V2: an
> artifact
> >may be visible to its owner tenant only, be public (i.e. visible to all
> the
> >tenants) or directly shared by the owner to a specific tenant. Also,
> Glance can
> >act in the anonymous mode (i.e. without an access token), thus providing
> access
> >to public artifacts even to unauthenticated users.
> >This can be easily applied to a public web service, such as community app
> >catalog: regular unauthenticated users use anonymous mode to access only
> the
> >public assets (this is the current behavior of apps.o.o), while registered
> >users will have their own private spaces (“tenants”) with various access
> >restrictions.
> >
> >8. The federation.
> >The ultimate goal for Glance Artifact Repository is ability to build
> trees of
> >artifact repos in different clouds. The top node of that tree is some
> Global
> >Application Catalog (and the apps.openstack.org may be this global
> catalog - if
> >it is glance-based or at least supports glance v3 federation), then there
> are
> >repositories of particular openstack vendors or distributors, then - the
> >catalogs of enterprises operating different openstack clouds. The
> particular
> >glance deployments in that clouds are the leafs of that tree, being able
> to
> >search for data assets in all the upstream repositories, download them
> from
> >there or - if permitted - submit their local assets back upstream. This
> will be
> >the ultimate network for application delivery and exchange in openstack
> world -
> >and this is one of the main reasons we’ve began the Artifacts initiative
> in
> >Glance.
> >Unlike other aforementioned features this one is not implemented yet, but
> we
> >are planning to add it as soon as we are done with API stabilization goal.
> >
> >
> >There are many other features which are present in V3’s roadmap and may be
> >useful for the app catalog, such as ability to sign artifacts with their
> >developers’ keys and verify that keys on usage to ensure the authenticity
> of
> >the artifact.
> >
> >What we don’t have right now is the ability to associate ratings
> (“stars”) and
> >comments to the artifact, as well as aggregating different usage and
> download
> >statistics: such features are really needed only for the public website
> such as
> >apps.o.o but are not required for Glance’s in particular clouds. But we
> may
> >find some way to solve this, either by wrapping glance API with additional
> >middleware which would add appropriate info from a different data source,
> or by
> >having custom plugins which are able to do that, or in some other way: I
> am
> >sure we may find a solution for this.
> >
> >So, this was just a brief description of what Glance v3 has to offer as a
> >backend for App Catalog API.
> >It also worths to mention that this API is in “EXPERIMENTAL” state right
> now,
> >which means that it is not fixed and we may modify it significantly if
> there is
> >a need to. So we may work closer together to adopt it for the needs of
> >Community App Catalog.
> >
> >I would really prefer to not create any overlaps between Glance v3 and the
> >community app catalog: if the app catalog builds its own incompatible
> >implementation of assets discovery and distribution API then we’ll have a
> huge
> >duplication of efforts for developers and lots of confusion to the
> end-users
> >who will get two entirely different ways to do the same task.
> >
> >So, I’d propose to discuss these potential overlaps, look at the features
> need
> >by App Catalog and see how Glance V3 may be of use here. I’ll be more than
> >happy to help with that. We can dive deeper into the details here in the
> >mailing list or meet in person in Tokyo. I'll try to have a demonstratable
> >prototype by that time.
> >
> >--
> >Regards,
> >Alexander Tivelkov
>
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