+1 Devananda is a great PLT. It is his vision that has and is driving Ironic's rapid development.
Chris Krelle On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Devananda van der Veen < devananda....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to nominate myself for the OpenStack Bare Metal Provisioning > (Ironic) PTL position. > > I have been working with OpenStack for over 18 months, and was a > scalability and performance consultant at Percona for four years prior. > Since '99, I have worked as a developer, team lead, database admin, and > linux systems architect for a variety of companies. > > I am the current PTL of the Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic) program, > which began incubation during Havana. In collaboration with many fine folks > from HP, NTT Docomo, USC/ISI, and VirtualTech, I worked extensively on the > Nova Baremetal driver during the Grizzly cycle. I also helped start the > TripleO program, which relies heavily on the baremetal driver to achieve > its goals. During the Folsom cycle, I led the effort to improve Nova's DB > API layer and added devstack support for the OpenVZ driver. Through that > work, I became a member of nova-core for a time, though my attention has > shifted away from Nova more recently. > > Once I had seen nova-baremetal and TripleO running in our test environment > and began to assess our longer-term goals (eg, HA, scalability, integration > with other OpenStack services), I felt very strongly that bare metal > provisioning was a separate problem domain from Nova and would be best > served with a distinct API service and a different HA framework than what > is provided by Nova. I circulated this idea during the last summit, and > then proposed it to the TC shortly thereafter. > > During this development cycle, I feel that Ironic has made significant > progress. Starting from the initial "git bisect" to retain the history of > the baremetal driver, I added an initial service and RPC framework, > implemented some architectural pieces, and left a lot of #TODO's. Today, > with commits from 10 companies during Havana (*) and integration already > underway with devstack, tempest, and diskimage-builder, I believe we will > have a functional release within the Icehouse time frame. > > I feel that a large part of my role as PTL has been - and continues to be > - to gather ideas from a wide array of individuals and companies interested > in bare metal provisioning, then translate those ideas into a direction for > the program that fits within the OpenStack ecosystem. Additionally, I am > often guiding compromise between the long-term goals, such as firmware > management, and the short-term needs of getting the project to a > fully-functional state. To that end, here is a brief summary of my goals > for the project in the Icehouse cycle. > > * API service and client library (likely finished before the summit) > * Nova driver (blocked, depends on ironic client library) > * Finish RPC bindings for power and deploy management > * Finish merging bm-deploy-helper with Ironic's PXE driver > * PXE boot integration with Neutron > * Integrate with TripleO / TOCI for automated testing > * Migration script for existing deployments to move off the nova-baremetal > driver > * Fault tolerance of the ironic-conductor nodes > * Translation support > * Docs, docs, docs! > > Beyond this, there are many long-term goals which I would very much like > to facilitate, such as: > > * hardware discovery > * better integration with SDN capable hardware > * pre-provisioning tools, eg. management of bios, firmware, and raid > config, hardware burn-in, etc. > * post-provisioning tools, eg. secure-erase > * boot from network volume > * secure boot (protect deployment against MITM attacks) > * validation of signed firmware (protect tenant against prior tenant) > > Overall, I feel honored to be working with so many talented individuals > across the OpenStack community, and know that there is much more to learn > as a developer, and as a program lead. > > (*) > > http://www.stackalytics.com/?release=havana&metric=commits&project_type=All&module=ironic > > http://russellbryant.net/openstack-stats/ironic-reviewers-30.txt > http://russellbryant.net/openstack-stats/ironic-reviewers-180.txt > > -- > Devananda > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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