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On 20/12/17 09:29, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Zane Bitter wrote:
>> Getting off-topic, but since you walked in to this one ;)
>>
>> On 14/12/17 21:43, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>> What are the real problems that the Nova team is not working on and
>>> apparently is a priority to everyone else in the OpenStack ecosystem
>>> but we are somehow oblivious?
>>
>> * Providing a secure channel to get credentials to guests so that
>> applications running on them can authenticate to OpenStack APIs.
>>
>> * Providing reliable, user-space notifications of events that may
>> require application or application-operator intervention (e.g. VM
>> reboot, hypervisor died, &c.).
>
> I'll add on.
>
> * Clear workflow state (and transition) 'machine' that is followed in
> code and can be used by operators/others such as UI developers to get
> a view on what nova is or is not doing (may fit under the broad topic
> of observability?)
>
> Take for example
> http://flower.readthedocs.io/en/latest/screenshots.html and ask
> yourself why nova-compute (or nova-conductor or nova-scheduler...)
> doesn't have an equivalent kind of 'viewer' (and no it doesn't need to
> be flower, that's just an example...)
>

That's one of the changes we (at least me and Rob Cresswell) would like
to improve in Horizon. The idea is services (Nova, Cinder, Nutron, etc)
putting notifications into Zaqar queue and then Horizon can easily get
the resources status instead of doing stupid polling. And it could be
easily doing the thing shown on above link.

>>
>> - ZB
>>
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