Open Stack

To summarize. If there’s no further feedback on these by EOD Feb. 11, I’ll propose them to the User Committee. 

On the About You page [1] we update the "What best describes your involvement with OpenStack?" section as follows

[ ] OpenStack cloud service provider - provides public or hosted private cloud services for other organizations
[ ] Ecosystem vendor - provides software or solutions that enable others to build or run OpenStack clouds
[ ] Private cloud operator - runs an OpenStack private cloud for their own organization
[ ] Application developer - has API or dashboard credentials and deploys/maintains an application running on an OpenStack cloud
[ ] Application operator - has API or dashboard credentials and develops an application running on an OpenStack cloud

The Q&A:

1. What toolkits do you use or plan on using to interact with the OpenStack API?
  1. deltacloud (HTTP API)
  2. fog (Ruby)
  3. jclouds (Java)
  4. openstack.net (C#)
  5. OpenStack clients (Python)
  6. php-opencloud (PHP)
  7. pkgcloud (Node.js)
  8. Other (please specify)
  9. None (wrote our own)

2. If you wrote your own code for interacting with the OpenStack API, what programming language did you write it in?
  1. C/C++
  2. C#
  3. Java
  4. Node.js
  5. Ruby
  6. Perl
  7. PHP
  8. Python
  9. Other (please specify)

3. If you wrote your own code for interacting with the OpenStack API, what wire format are you using?
  1. JSON
  2. XML

4. What development environment do you use or plan on using?
  1. Eclipse or Eclipse based IDE
  2. Intellij IDEA or IDEA based IDE
  3. Visual Studio
  4. Sublime
  5. Vim
  6. Other (please specify)

5. What tools are you using or plan on using to deploy/configure your application?
  1. Ansible
  2. Chef
  3. Cloud Foundry and/or BOSH
  4. Docker
  5. OpenStack Orchestration (Heat)
  6. Puppet
  7. SaltStack
  8. Other (please specify)

6. Share your thoughts with us on the state of applications on OpenStack. Here are some questions to consider:
  1. What do you struggle with when developing and deploying applications on OpenStack? 
  2. What’s missing that would make your life easier?
  3. Why did you choose a particular tool?
  4. Why didn’t you choose a particular tool?

  Free form answers.

Everett

[1] https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/OrgInfo



On Feb 5, 2014, at 3:40 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On 02/04/2014 08:37 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
>> It is really easy to ask lots of questions, however, every
>> additional question causes a drop of in percentage responders. So
>> every question should have a clear reason for being asked other
>> than general interest.
> 
> Agreed. There's a bunch of stuff I'd like to know, but which I don't
> think we should be asking users.
> 
>> And on a lighter note... how did vim make the list but not emacs?
>> ;)
> 
> Because it's better. Duh. ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
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> Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact
> Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
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