[Openstack] Openstack API - Volumes?

Adam Johnson adjohn at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 03:14:09 UTC 2011


Sounds great,

We are basing our developments off of Justin's API work, just wanted
to get a consensus from the community on his approach, and see how we
can get it in as an optional component so that people can start
getting their hands dirty.

We're also interested in the snapshots support as well.  Have you
started working on this feature, as well as the block storage project?
 Could you share some timelines with us so that we can maybe
collaborate?

Thanks!

Adam

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Chuck Thier <cthier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Adam,
> As far as I understand it, there is already basic volume support within
> nova, and that there are currently some suggested changes for the current
> API.  We are planning to fit within that API as much as possible, and work
> with the community to make any changes that may need to be made (an easy
> example is snapshot support for snapshots in swift).
> Most of our team will be at the developers summit, and look forward to
> discussing it with others then.
> --
> Chuck
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Adam Johnson <adjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Chuck,
>>
>> Thanks for the response.  We are very interested in this project as
>> well, and may want to contribute.  We're currently evaluating options
>> such as Sheepdog and others to see if they fit the bill.  In order to
>> fully evaluate these options, it would be great to have *some* API
>> support in the project.
>>
>> I think adding volumes as an extension short term seems like a good
>> idea.  Whatever it takes to get something in there, so we can get our
>> hands dirty and experiment some more.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Chuck Thier <cthier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Adam,
>> > We have just begun an R&D effort for building a scalable block storage
>> > service with commodity hardware.  We are still working more on the back
>> > end
>> > specifics for this, so we haven't spent much time looking at the end
>> > user
>> > apis yet.  We are open to hearing feedback on that front though, and
>> > plan on
>> > discussing it more at the next developer summit.
>> >
>> > This project will be developed in the open, and when complete will
>> > be submitted to the Policy Board as a candidate for inclusion in
>> > Openstack
>> > proper.  I don't have a lot of details to share yet, but plan on
>> > discussing
>> > much at the next summit.
>> > --
>> > Chuck
>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John Purrier <john at openstack.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I know that creiht is looking at this for Rackspace. Chuck, anything to
>> >> add
>> >> to this discussion?
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack.org at lists.launchpad.net
>> >> [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack.org at lists.launchpad.net] On
>> >> Behalf
>> >> Of Adam Johnson
>> >> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 10:15 PM
>> >> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>> >> Subject: [Openstack] Openstack API - Volumes?
>> >>
>> >> Hey everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I wanted to bring up the topic of volumes in the OpenStack API.  I
>> >> know there was some discussion about this before, but it seems to have
>> >> faded on the ML.   I know Justinsb has done some work on this already,
>> >> and has a branch here:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> https://code.launchpad.net/~justin-fathomdb/nova/justinsb-openstack-api-volu
>> >> mes
>> >>
>> >> Im wondering what the consensus is on what the API should look like,
>> >> and when we could get this merged into Nova?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Adam Johnson
>> >> Midokura
>> >>
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