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I would add that the Horizon team has been hard at work in the Essex release cycle to support this "ecosystem" concept as well. The Essex release has been completely re-architected for extensibility; any project can easily add their own dashboards, panels, etc. via reusable components. We'll be talking lots about that at the next summit.

Maintaining a solid "core" OpenStack is absolutely important, but it shouldn't be the bottleneck to successful projects.

    - Gabriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net
> [mailto:openstack-
> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of
> Jesse Andrews
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:13 AM
> To: Oleg Gelbukh
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Atlas-LB - what's the project status?
> 
> Hi Oleg,
> 
> NOTE: this is my opinion - I do not speak for all of OpenStack!
> 
> While our focus is on a successful Essex, the RCB team has started thinking
> about Folsom.  Our current thoughts is focusing on enabling an eco-system
> **around** core.  OpenStack shouldn't try to be IaaS, PaaS and SaaS -
> instead a solid base to build these other systems on.
> [1]
> 
> OpenStack is about "Essential Infrastructure Services" (currently compute,
> storage, network) and supporting tools/apis/docs.
> Determining if LB is considered Infrastructure (vs. platform) and if it is
> Essential (a fuzzy word - what is essential to one isn't essential to another)
> 
> That said - regardless of whether Atlas land in core [2], my team wants to
> add:
> 
>  * documentation/tutorials/examples about how to add a new (iaas or
> paas) services to a cloud
>  * simple integration of LB service (for instance an optional devstack
> component).
>  * an opensource backend for the LB service (haproxy, pound, ...)
> 
> The thought is that an entire eco-system of components that plug into a
> cloud is more powerful than having OpenStack "choose winners" that
> become "core". [3]
> 
> I look forward to conversations about LBaaS and the definition of OpenStack.
> 
> Jesse Andrews
> Rackspace Cloud Builders
> 
> [1] the analogy I use is that the Apache Web Server doesn't try to be Django
> or Rails, but instead be a great web server to run rails on top of.
> [2] in addition to the question about if lbaas belongs in core, the incubation
> process would need to be gone through
> http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/Incubation
> [3] rather than blessing project X to be an official platform component,
> enable many projects to run on top and let open source / market dynamics
> determine winners.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Oleg Gelbukh <ogelbukh at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello, everyone
> >
> > What is the status of this LBaaS project for the OpenStack? As far as
> > I know, the open-source version is compatible with OpenStack. But is
> > it possible to merge the Java code in the OpenStack ecosystem? Is
> > someone working on re-implementing Atlas-LB in Python and eventually
> > adding to the projects incubator, or there are some other lbaas projects
> out there?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > --
> > Oleg Gelbukh
> > Mirantis Inc.
> >
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