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Atlas is an api/service which controls load balancers. Currently they
support zeus, but they have a model where folks can add additional software
like haproxy/pound/... much like nova supports additional
hypervisors/storage systems via "drivers"
On Apr 23, 2011 7:26 AM, "Thomas Goirand" <thomas at goirand.fr> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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