[openstack-dev] [Higgins][Zun] Project roadmap

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Mon Jun 13 13:27:29 UTC 2016


On 12/06/16 22:10 +0000, Hongbin Lu wrote:
>Hi team,
>
>During the team meetings these weeks, we collaborated the initial project roadmap. I summarized it as below. Please review.
>
>* Implement a common container abstraction for different container runtimes. The initial implementation will focus on supporting basic container operations (i.e. CRUD).

What COE's are being considered for the first implementation? Just docker and kubernetes?

>* Focus on non-nested containers use cases (running containers on physical hosts), and revisit nested containers use cases (running containers on VMs) later.
>* Provide two set of APIs to access containers: The Nova APIs and the Zun-native APIs. In particular, the Zun-native APIs will expose full container capabilities, and Nova APIs will expose capabilities that are shared between containers and VMs.

- Is the nova side going to be implemented in the form of a Nova driver (like
ironic's?)? What do you mean by APIs here?

- What operations are we expecting this to support (just CRUD operations on
containers?)?

I can see this driver being useful for specialized services like Trove but I'm
curious/concerned about how this will be used by end users (assuming that's the
goal).


>* Leverage Neutron (via Kuryr) for container networking.
>* Leverage Cinder for container data volume.
>* Leverage Glance for storing container images. If necessary, contribute to Glance for missing features (i.e. support layer of container images).

Are you aware of https://review.openstack.org/#/c/249282/ ?


>* Support enforcing multi-tenancy by doing the following:
>** Add configurable options for scheduler to enforce neighboring containers belonging to the same tenant.
>** Support hypervisor-based container runtimes.
>
>The following topics have been discussed, but the team cannot reach consensus on including them into the short-term project scope. We skipped them for now and might revisit them later.
>* Support proxying API calls to COEs.

Any link to what this proxy will do and what service it'll talk to? I'd
generally advice against having proxy calls in services. We've just done work in
Nova to deprecate the Nova Image proxy.

>* Advanced container operations (i.e. keep container alive, load balancer setup, rolling upgrade).
>* Nested containers use cases (i.e. provision container hosts).
>* Container composition (i.e. support docker-compose like DSL).
>
>NOTE: I might forgot and mis-understood something. Please feel free to point out if anything is wrong or missing.

It sounds you've got more than enough to work on for now, I think it's fine to
table these topics for now.

just my $0.02
Flavio

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