On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Matt Wagner wrote: > On Thu May 2 08:30:13 2013, Martin Povolny wrote: > >Hallo Aeolus community. > > > >As a follow up to previous debates on Broker concept, I have put > >together some code and put in on github here: > >https://github.com/martinpovolny/broker > > > >There's some basic configuration management implemented and a very > >limited deltacloud driver. > > I didn't get a chance to poke around much at the code yet, but wanted to > interject a random idea that popped into my head. > > Given some of our recent interest in OpenStack, I was just poking around > their documentation, and I found > http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/selecting-a-hypervisor.html > listing all the hypervisors supported. > > I noticed that it has one for VMware, which seemed odd to me since I viewed > it more as a "competitor" to OpenStack then a hypervisor you'd run things > on. They have one for bare metal, too, and I started wondering if it would > make sense to write a "hypervisor" layer for a cloud provider.
Sure but they probably don't want all their eggs in one basked so they sort-of-support OpenStack running on their product. > > Then I realized... What would really be cool would be a cloud broker layer. > (Though their ComputerFilter seems somewhat germane.) It could make > cloud-bursting really easy, but you could probably do more -- all the other > benefits of a cloud broker. There could be some value in having a broker on top of OpenStack as a way to choose between private OpenStack instance and some public OpenStack offerings or more private OpenStacks based on various criteria. But I don't know enough of OpenStack to have an opinion yet. I have seen that there are some availability zones in OpenStack and also Heat might be doing someting like that already. I have downloaded a book on OpenStack to learn more... > > I know that this is not what you're describing, and I'm not suggesting you > should change it. I just thought this could be an interesting application of > this cloud broker, and a way to get it integrated into something with a > larger backing. Take it with a grain of salt. > > -- Matt -- Martin Povolny <[email protected]> tel. +420777714458
