[openstack-dev] [k8s] OpenStack and Containers White Paper

Amy Marrich amy at demarco.com
Mon Apr 2 21:14:03 UTC 2018


Chris,

Can't help with content but can volunteer as an editor.

Amy (spotz)

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Chris Hoge <chris at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> In advance of the Vancouver Summit, I'm leading an effort to publish a
> community produced white-paper on OpenStack and container integrations.
> This has come out of a need to develop materials, both short and long
> form, to help explain how OpenStack interacts with container
> technologies across the entire stack, from infrastructure to
> application. The rough outline of the white-paper proposes an entire
> technology stack and discuss deployment and usage strategies at every
> level. The white-paper will focus on existing technologies, and how they
> are being used in production today across our community. Beginning at
> the hardware layer, we have the following outline (which may be inverted
> for clarity):
>
> * OpenStack Ironic for managing bare metal deployments.
> * Container-based deployment tools for installing and managing OpenStack
>    * Kolla containers and Kolla-Ansible
>    * Loci containers and OpenStack Helm
> * OpenStack-hosted APIs for managing container application
>   infrastructure.
>    * Magnum
>    * Zun
> * Community-driven integration of Kubernetes and OpenStack with K8s
>   Cloud Provider OpenStack
> * Projects that can stand alone in integrations with Kubernetes and
>   other cloud technology
>    * Cinder
>    * Neutron with Kuryr and Calico integrations
>    * Keystone authentication and authorization
>
> I'm looking for volunteers to help produce the content for these sections
> (and any others we may uncover to be useful) for presenting a complete
> picture of OpenStack and container integrations. If you're involved with
> one of these projects, or are using any of these tools in
> production, it would be fantastic to get your input in producing the
> appropriate section. We especially want real-world deployments to use as
> small case studies to inform the work.
>
> During the process of creating the white-paper, we will be working with a
> technical writer and the Foundation design team to produce a document that
> is consistent in voice, has accurate and informative graphics that
> can be used to illustrate the major points and themes of the white-paper,
> and that can be used as stand-alone media for conferences and
> presentations.
>
> Over the next week, I'll be reaching out to individuals and inviting them
> to collaborate. This is also a general invitation to collaborate, and if
> you'd like to help out with a section please reach out to me here, on the
> K8s #sig-openstack Slack channel, or at my work e-mail,
> chris at openstack.org.
> Starting next week, we'll work out a schedule for producing and delivering
> the white-paper by the Vancouver Summit. We are very short on time, so
> we will have to be focused to quickly produce high-quality content.
>
> Thanks in advance to everyone who participates in writing this
> document. I'm looking forward to working with you in the coming weeks to
> publish this important resource for clearly describing the multitude of
> interactions between these complementary technologies.
>
> -Chris Hoge
> K8s-SIG-OpenStack/OpenStack-SIG-K8s Co-Lead
>
>
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