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The COE's have a pressure not to standardize their api's between competing COE's. If you can lock a user into your api, then they cant go to your competitor.

The standard api really needs to come from those invested in not being locked in. OpenStack's been largely about that since the beginning. It may not belong in Magnum, but I do believe it belongs in OpenStack.

Thanks,
Kevin
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From: Steve Gordon [sgordon at redhat.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 6:39 AM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [magnum][app-catalog][all] Build unified abstraction for all COEs

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hongbin Lu" <hongbin.lu at huawei.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keith Bray [mailto:keith.bray at RACKSPACE.COM]
> > Sent: April-20-16 6:13 PM
> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [magnum][app-catalog][all] Build unified
> > abstraction for all COEs
> >
> > Magnum doesn¹t have to preclude tight integration for single COEs you
> > speak of.  The heavy lifting of tight integration of the COE in to
> > OpenStack (so that it performs optimally with the infra) can be modular
> > (where the work is performed by plug-in models to Magnum, not performed
> > by Magnum itself. The tight integration can be done by leveraging
> > existing technologies (Heat and/or choose your DevOps tool of choice:
> > Chef/Ansible/etc). This allows interested community members to focus on
> > tight integration of whatever COE they want, focusing specifically on
>
> I agree that tight integration can be achieved by a plugin, but I think the
> key question is who will do the work. If tight integration needs to be done,
> I wonder why it is not part of the Magnum efforts.

Why does the integration belong in Magnum though? To me it belongs in the COEs themselves (e.g. their in-tree network/storage plugins) such that someone can leverage them regardless of their choices regarding COE deployment tooling (and yes that means Magnum should be able to leverage them too)? I guess the issue is that in the above conversation we are overloading the term "integration" which can be taken to mean different things...

-Steve

> From my point of view,
> pushing the work out doesn't seem to address the original pain, which is
> some users don't want to explore the complexities of individual COEs.


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