Open Stack

Thanks for the links to those projects!  I wasn't aware of either one.
Hopefully your employer will open source your solution, because it sounds
interesting.  Good Luck!

On 9/26/13 7:12 PM, "Daniel Ellison" <daniel at syrinx.net> wrote:

>On 2013-09-26, at 6:35 PM, Douglas Mendizabal
><douglas.mendizabal at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:
>> I was working on that same idea, getting OpenStack running in Docker
>> containers, for a hackathon a few weeks ago.  It was a one day event, so
>> we only got as far as you did, except we're using postgres as the
>>backend
>> for Keystone.  We put up our work on GitHub if you're interested in
>> collaborating, let me know.
>
>Today I got RabbitMQ working in a container and got a good way into
>Glance as well. I'm breaking up the standard OpenStack "control node"
>into its component parts and running each in a Docker container. This way
>the control node can be spread across several physical machines if need
>be. It also allows isolation of technologies such as Erlang (RabbitMQ's
>language), avoiding "pollution" of a common environment.
>
>I'm using Pipework (https://github.com/jpetazzo/pipework) to set up a
>private network between the components once they're running. Once I have
>all of the pieces in place I'm going to use Maestro
>(https://github.com/toscanini/maestro) to orchestrate the startup of all
>containers, making sure the database and message queue are available
>before any of the OpenStack components need them.
>
>Looking at what you've put together, we're taking fairly different paths
>in our implementations. The work I'm doing is being paid for by my
>company so I can't simply post the work on a public site without
>permission. I will, however, ask about releasing everything into the
>public domain once it's working.
>
>+Daniel