Open Stack

On 04/23/2011 12:27 PM, Josh Odom wrote:
> Stackers,
> I'm excited to tell the OpenStack community that the Atlas team within
> Rackspace is open sourcing our load balancing service.  Next week we will
> be proposing that this project be recognized as an affiliated OpenStack
> project in incubation status.
>  
> The Rackspace Cloud has been operating this product in a beta phase since
> November of last year and this week has just gone into general
> availability.  We¹ve been very pleased with the reception from our
> customers and excited about the prospect of this project potentially being
> part of the larger OpenStack community.
> 
> The project is hosted at https://launchpad.net/atlas-lb and the team is
> excited to collaborate with others in the OpenStack community to make the
> code better and to integrate with the other applicable OpenStack projects.
>  
> Uma Goring, the engineering manager for the project within Rackspace and
> the project technical lead and I will be hosting a session at the summit
> to review the project and some of our ideas for the path forward. As part
> of this effort, we will begin the discussion on the API specification for
> version 1.1 of the service.  This will be done completely in the open with
> the community; using the mailing list, IRC channel, and the OpenStack wiki.
> 
> We¹re excited about this project and look forward to discussing further at
> the design summit next week.  We¹ve opened a blueprint to facilitate the
> discussion around this project @
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-devel/+spec/openstack-lbaas.
> 
>  
> -Josh

Hi Josh,

Can you describe the project a bit? Why is it better than let's say HAProxy?

Thomas