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Hi,

Though I haven’t attended the operator summit in person a them which has been mentioned to me is that we need to offer better reference architectures. I use the plural here on purpose because I don’t think there will be one architecture/combination of projects which works for everybody. As a community (and the TC can help) we should write up guides for reference architectures for containers, vms, and bare metal. But we  don’t need to offer just one project – there are a couple of ways to get there and we should offer choice. But we owe it to the operators that we have tested whatever we write up at some scale.

The second meaning for a “one platform” vision would be a unified API for Containers, VMs, and bare metal. I have talked to several people who would like to write software which doesn’t need to distinguish between different APIs to accomplish that. But I still feel that we should adhere to the Unix philosophy and make the best API for each technology and then have the orchestration platform or higher level abstractions (e.g. cloud native) worry about it.

This leads me to one of my gripes with the way we work. We sort of accepted that it is the projects responsibility to write tests and documentation but when it comes who is writing the Heat integration, the Open Stack Ansible part, or the Gophercloud part – things get real murky. I don’t iike to add another burden to some of the small projects but we also need to figure out a way that those things are current and compete. I am hoping that having reference architectures can guide us in this regard and I think we need to add more visibility what those solution supports and where the gaps are.

Thanks,
German


From: joehuang <joehuang at huawei.com>
Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 10:54 PM
To: openstack-dev <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: [openstack-dev] [tc][elections]questions about one platform vision

Hello,

I heard the one platform vision in OpenStack now and then: One platform for virtual machines, containers and bare metal.

I also learned that there are some groups working on making Kubernets being able to manage virtual machines. Except running containers in virtual machine, there is also the need for running containers in bare metal.

There are several projects connecting OpenStack to container world: Zun, Magnum, Kuryr, Fuxi... Projects to deal with bare metal like Ironic, Morgan, ...

Can all these efforts lead us to one platform vision? We have to think over the question.

What's the one platform will be in your own words? What's your proposal and your focus to help one platform vision being achieved?


Best Regards
Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)
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