Andres,
thanks for your interest. Could you elaborate what your thoughts related
to CentOS 7 and the CentOS virtualization SIG are? I am not sure I
exactly understand what you are proposing and it is also not quite clear
to me whether there is some overlap with other SIGs (such as the Cloud SIG).
I guess the key question I have is whether you are suggesting /
considering to use the output of the virtualization SIG as upstream for
OpenNode and would want to contribute to the SIG.
Best Regards
Lars
On 03/04/2014 21:30, Andres Toomsalu wrote:
Dear Scott, Lars,
Currently we already have CentOS 6 based respin (called OpenNode -
http://opennodecloud.com) targeted for virtualization - supporting
both OpenVZ and QEMU/KVM at the moment - yet it would be possible to
add Xen/LXC/Docker support as well - as we are based on libvirt.
We are just discussing some ideas how we would like to develop next
major version - CentOS 7 based virtualization host - yet we would be
really interested for having an open discussion and community based
development - if anybody wants to join in or there will be some
interest to create something like community CentOS virtualization host
project - where we could join. Our current ideas are spinning around
CoreOS like (perhaps stateless) CentOS 7 compute host with modern
clustering built-in (perhaps etcd) - and we still want to continue to
support both containers and full virtual machines on the same host.
Hopefully also Docker will be mature enough soon and supporting OpenVZ
userland tools - as LXC and OpenVZ share the kernel part and
surprisingly LXC seems still not enough mature/feature rich - yet LXC
project has existed already quite a long time (which makes me a bit
pessimistic predicting on future LXC progress pace). LXC container
isolation features still suck a bit (for production systems) and still
no live migration feature - yet support for it seems to come from
OpenVZ team - as http://criu.org. But hopefully we can get rid of
OpenVZ patched kernels - so it will be only the choice of userspace
tools (for containers).
Our goal would be to have something way simpler than Openstack (which
is huge and quite a mess in its current state - if you really want to
create a production grade system with it) - and to have a nicely
packaged + easy to use system (which might not support all 1001 ways
of doing the same thing - yet enforcing some simple best-practices).
So - if anybody interested - lets discuss!
Kind regards,
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