Hi Chris ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Wright" <[email protected]> > To: "Greg Blomquist" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 8:22:47 PM > Subject: Re: Winged Monkey > > * Greg Blomquist ([email protected]) wrote: > > The idea for Winged Monkey started as a simple end user cloud > > access portal. > > I think this succinctly defines it best (I think of it a 'cloud user > portal'). To that end it needs to not only distinguish itself from > some > of Conductor as has already been mentioned a few times, but also from > the native tools for clouds. > > For example, downthread... > > * Angus Thomas ([email protected]) wrote: > > Winged Monkey could be pointed directly at ovirt/vsphere/openstack > > and > > present a user portal. > > * Hugh Brock ([email protected]) wrote: > > Winged Monkey should also be happy to connect directly to RHEV-M or > > OpenStack and launch things there, should our Aeolus user have > > their > > own private credentials they want to use. > > So has any thought gone into comparing w/ Horizon, oVirt User Portal, > etc?
Yep! We've definitely talked about this. I'll be honest, I haven't seen the oVirt User Portal, but I have seen the oVirt WebAdmin (which probably isn't good for any type of comparison) and Horizon. I think horizon has a relatively clean look to it, but, like Conductor there's not a lot of separation between admin functionality and end user functionality. Radez is working on Thermal (a UI for Heat, to mimic what CloudFormation provides in EC2), and that will help by providing the functionality of spinning up "applications" or "stacks" from directly within Horizon. But, it will still be part of the larger Horizon body of user experience. To be honest, though. This distinction is from the top of my head right now. We'll have to keep these applications in mind as we strive to better define our niche here. --- Greg > > thanks, > -chris >
