Open Stack

Hi all,

We need to get moving on preparing a cloud for the TW App Hackfest. The 
cloud will support everyone's needs for the event, and be a "mission 
critical" component.

Rico's put together a set of high level objectives for the cloud we need 
in the high level design document [1]. Though, to summarise: basically 
it's a kilo or liberty OpenStack cloud with a few hundred physical cores 
worth of capacity and running all the common services.

Our preference is to try and re-use an existing cloud rather than build 
one ourselves. Though, unfortunately, as there are no public OpenStack 
clouds nearby network-wise, that means we're looking at internal clouds, 
or our second preference: build one for the event. If we do have to 
build one, we want to limit the variables to something that has been 
done before, and by experienced people to remove the risk of the 
platform not working.

So far we've had expressions of interest related to the following 
organisations:
* HP - Unfortunately, the HP public cloud will shut down before this 
event, but HP has still offered some assistance.
* Inwinstack - offer to help build a system if we can find hardware
* CHT - might have a cloud already internally. Need technical details.
* ITRI - investigating whether they have an appropriate cloud or 
appropriate people who could help

We're also asking around local hardware vendors to see who might have 
hardware we can borrow.

Anyway, if you know of a cloud we might be able to use, or this is 
something you feel you can contribute to, please reply to the thread and 
maybe if we get enough people and ideas we will have a meeting :)


Regards,


Tom





[1] High Level Design document: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y0dr_yRzPX19GD5zX2-Z5kXN7YGrCPck5OQJbaqWjTI/edit