[openstack-dev] Call for Commiters & Contributors for daisycloud-core project

Shake Chen shake.chen at gmail.com
Tue May 31 06:57:19 UTC 2016


Hi Zhijiang

I think you can put Daisy into docker, then use ansible or kolla deploy
Daisy.



On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:43 AM, <hu.zhijiang at zte.com.cn> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to introduce to you a new OpenStack installer project
> Daisy(project name: daisycloud-core). Daisy used to be a closed source
> project mainly developed by ZTE, but currently we make it a OpenStack
> related project(http://www.daisycloud.org,
> https://github.com/openstack/daisycloud-core).
>
> Although it is not mature and still under development, Daisy concentrates
> on deploying OpenStack fast and efficiently for large data center which has
> hundreds of nodes. In order to reach that goal, Daisy was born to focus on
> many features that may not be suitable for small clusters, but definitely
> conducive to the deployment of big clusters. Those features include but not
> limited to the following:
>
> 1. Containerized OpenStack Services
> In order to speed up installation and upgrading as a whole, Daisy decides
> to use Kolla as underlying deployment module to support containerized
> OpenStack services.
>
> 2. Multicast
> Daisy utilizes multicast as much as possible to speed up imaging work flow
> during the installation. For example, instead of using centralized Docker
> registry while adopting Kolla, Daisy multicasts all Docker images to each
> node of the cluster, then creates and uses local registries on each node
> during Kolla deployment process. The Same things can be done for OS imaging
> too.
>
> 3. Automatic Deployment
> Instead of letting users decide if a node can be provisioned and deserved
> to join to the cluster, Daisy provide a characteristics matching mechanism
> to recognize if a new node has the same capabilities as a current working
> computer nodes. If it is true, Daisy will start deployment on that node
> right after it is discovered and make it a computer node with the same
> configuration as that current working computer nodes.
>
> 4. Configuration Template
> Using precise configuration file to describe a big dynamic cluster is not
> applicable, and it is not able to be reused when moving to another
> approximate environment either. Daisy’s configuration template only
> describes the common part of the cluster and the representative of the
> controller/compute nodes. It can be seen as a semi-finished configuration
> file which can be used in any approximate environments. During deployment,
> users only have to evaluate few specific parameters to make the
> configuration template a final configuration file.
>
> 5. Your comments on anything else that can brings unique value to the
> large data center deployment?
>
> As the project lead, I would like to get feedback from you about this new
> project. You are more than welcome to join this project!
>
> Thank you
> Zhijiang
>
>
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Shake Chen
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