[Openstack] EC2 API (euca2ools) vs OpenStack API (novaclient)

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 14:18:09 UTC 2012


On 02/06/2012 04:48 AM, Kevin Jackson wrote:
> Thanks All,
> @Jaypipes - I'm quickly coming to a point where I'm looking at
> describing tasks using both nova client and euca2ools - its certainly
> not a bad thing, the issue would be on simplicity (i.e. showing people
> how things can be done vs you could do this or you could do that -
> that choice bit leads to confusion).

I understand completely.

> I've been using nova client to get my environment off the ground, but
> equally using the euca2ools to do some basic stuff like launch
> instance (as per the hat-tip) has been going great - it was the
> all-round integration that was the issue.
>
> The clear thing it seems though is that its good to know that if I am
> encountering issues that its not because I'm fighting a losing battle
> with some design choices, there's a genuine reason and there will be
> some fix, even if that fix gets resolved in the next few months.

Yep.

> I'll start making notes on the bugs and raise them as appropriate.

Awesome! :)

Cheers,
-jay




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