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Hey guys,

I think there are two things I'd like to discuss to put some of this in context.

First, the openstack-dashboard project itself is essentially nothing more than a "sample site" that shows how to integrate with django-nova.  So I'd say if you're looking to build something, you don't want to build it on top of openstack-dashboard, you just want to expose it there, which django makes pretty easy. (I'm mainly just making the semantic distinction.)

xtoddx just proposed a merge for a nova based system panel extension called something like django-nova-syspanel as a separate module next to django-nova.


So we know we need to add syspanel stuff, swift stuff, glance stuff, burrow stuff, etc.

So on to my second point, which is that we should rename django-nova to django-openstack and create submodules within.  Then we can reuse exception handling, decorators, base views (now that django 1.3 supports class based views), etc.

This is actually pretty easy to do and I'd call it a Medium Tshirt.  

So anyone building a Django based UI that used one or more pieces of django-openstack can then pick and choose which they want to expose using the actual django site container's urls.py. Django is really great at this.

Then openstack-dashboard can continue to be a single reference implementation of all these things.


Devin





On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Eric Day wrote:

> Is the existing OpenStack dashboard project modular enough to
> support other applications? So far it seems to mostly be a "Nova
> dashboard", but it would be nice if each project didn't need its own
> application/dashboard. Instead each project could have a tab or section
> within the OpenStack dashboard. Glance could then be accessed through
> the nova section (via Nova's OpenStack API) or the glance section
> (direct glance API). You could add/remove application modules as
> needed in the configuration.
> 
> I'm already thinking of a dashboard for Burrow for monitoring queue
> sizes and other metrics, and it would be awesome if this could be
> built on top of openstack-dashboard.
> 
> With this type of integration, we could provide group views (zone,
> cluster, etc) that had a summary and health report of each of the
> applications running in a group.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:49:12AM -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I'm open to any and all suggestions around a Glance dashboard. I think
>> both a separate Glance dashboard application and integration with the
>> OpenStack dashboard would be appropriate. Since Glance is a
>> stand-alone component that can be run outside of Nova, I think having
>> a Glance dashboard that allows people to query and update images is a
>> good thing. The OpenStack dashboard should probably follow the
>> OpenStack API, while the Glance dashboard can communicate directly via
>> Glance's own REST-like API.
>> 
>> -jay
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Devin Carlen <devin.carlen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey Jay,
>>> 
>>> What are your ideas for a glance dashboard app above and beyond what the OpenStack dashboard currently supports?  This would be a great thing for us to spend a bit of time talking about at the summit.
>>> 
>>> - Devin
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We're in the planning stages for Diablo now, working on putting
>>>>> together blueprints, which turn into sessions at the design summit.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I know the Glance team is small and our project narrow in scope, but
>>>>> it would be great to get some feedback from the list about stuff you'd
>>>>> like to see included in Glance in the Diablo release.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some possible thoughts:
>>> [snip]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> * A Glance dashboard app?
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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