Hi Adrian, really intersting! I wonder what the relation to all the software orchestration in Heat discussions is that have been going on for a while now.
Regards, Thomas Adrian Otto <adrian.o...@rackspace.com> wrote on 23.10.2013 21:03:10: > From: Adrian Otto <adrian.o...@rackspace.com> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>, > Date: 23.10.2013 21:07 > Subject: [openstack-dev] Announcing Project Solum > > OpenStack, > > OpenStack has emerged as the preferred choice for open cloud > software worldwide. We use it to power our cloud, and we love it. > We’re proud to be a part of growing its capabilities to address more > needs every day. When we ask customers, partners, and community > members about what problems they want to solve next, we have > consistently found a few areas where OpenStack has room to grow in > addressing the needs of software developers: > 1) Ease of application development and deployment via integrated > support for Git, CI/CD, and IDEs > > 2) Ease of application lifecycle management across dev, test, and > production types of environments -- supported by the Heat project’s > automated orchestration (resource deployment, monitoring-based self- > healing, auto-scaling, etc.) > > 3) Ease of application portability between public and private > clouds -- with no vendor-driven requirements within the application > stack or control system > > Along with eBay, RedHat, Ubuntu/Canonical, dotCloud/Docker, > Cloudsoft, and Cumulogic, we at Rackspace are happy to announce we > have started project Solum as an OpenStack Related open source > project. Solum is a community-driven initiative currently in its > open design phase amongst the seven contributing companies with more to come. > > We plan to leverage the capabilities already offered in OpenStack in > addressing these needs so anyone running an OpenStack cloud can make > it easier to use for developers. By leveraging your existing > OpenStack cloud, the aim of Project Solum is to reduce the number of > services you need to manage in tackling these developer needs. You > can use all the OpenStack services you already run instead of > standing up overlapping, vendor-specific capabilities to accomplish this. > > We welcome you to join us to build this exciting new addition to the > OpenStack ecosystem. > > Project Wiki > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Solum > > Lauchpad Project > https://launchpad.net/solum > > IRC > Public IRC meetings are held on Tuesdays 1600 UTC > irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/solum > > Thanks, > > Adrian Otto_______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
