[User-committee] Public Cloud Working Group

Matt Jarvis matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk
Thu Nov 3 10:45:44 UTC 2016


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On 2 November 2016 at 23:18, Bruno Morel <bmorel at internap.com> wrote:

> So when ca we submit this to the User Committee ?... I think with have the
> critical mass :)
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> Bruno
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> *From: *Tobias Rydberg <tobias at citynetwork.se>
> *Date: *Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 5:55 PM
> *To: *"user-committee at lists.openstack.org" <user-committee at lists.
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> *Subject: *Re: [User-committee] Public Cloud Working Group
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> Hi,
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> I think this is a great suggestion from Sean, and I agree with the words
> from Curtis as well.
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> I work at a public cloud company and during our years with OpenStack we
> have seen a lot of things not suited for a public cloud. As Sean mentions,
> public cloud providers do their own fixes to get around this, and it would
> be much better with a joined force contributing this back to the community
> in a structured way.
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> Regards,
> Tobias
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> Den 2016-10-31 kl. 16:49, skrev Curtis:
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Sean Handley
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> <sean.handley at datacentred.co.uk> <sean.handley at datacentred.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I’d like to propose a working group for public cloud operators to help
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> deliver features across projects that support the needs of OpenStack public
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> cloud operators:
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> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PublicCloudWorkingGroup
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> I no longer work at a public cloud, but if I was I would think this
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> group to be very important.
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> I think there is a class of what I would call regional public clouds,
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> all around the world the world, and I think these are important
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> organizations worth supporting as much as possible. Speaking as
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> someone who used to work at one, it is invaluable to have peers to
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> discuss similar issues with. I would be very surprised if any of these
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> regional clouds feel as through they are fully staffed, and in fact
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> are often quite small. The ability to band together to solve common
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> problems and implement common solutions is extremely powerful, and I
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> think exactly what a working group would do.
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> Further, I do believe there is enough difference in the requirements
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> of a public cloud versus a private one to ensure that this working
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> group will have sufficient work. Private clouds can often (not always,
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> but often) solve problems by telling their users not to do something,
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> "it's against company policy", or even not supporting the feature,
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> whereas that is harder in a public cloud. Even the simple difference
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> of the fact that their APIs are available on the Internet is a
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> considerable change from a typical, IMHO, private cloud. Those are
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> just a couple examples. Certainly some would disagree with me, but I
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> feel there is fairly substantial difference between running a private
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> cloud and a public one.
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> My $0.02,
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> Curtis.
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> Cheers,
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> Sean Handley.
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