On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 08:14:57PM +0100, Haïkel Guémar wrote: > Le 22/11/2013 19:25, Joe Brockmeier a écrit : > >On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:16:06PM +0100, H. Guémar wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>since i might be unable to join the cloud WG meeting, here are my thoughts > >>about it: > >> > >>1. Just Enough OS for developping SaaS applications in an agile & devops > >>fashion :). > >I think your response and mine are largely similar, but I don't think > >we want to limit to SaaS, do we? If someone wants to develop an > >application of any kind in public/private cloud, we want to be able to > >be the foundation for that. > > My definition of SaaS is here quite large, it include every piece of > software that could benefit from elasticity (on-demand software, > scale-out applications etc...). > It could also be used as a building block for PaaS like OpenShift, > Clever Cloud, Heroku etc.
Ah, OK. For sanity's sake, can we use industry definitions instead of coining our own? SaaS == Software as a Service, e.g. Salesforce or Dropbox. > The difference is probably that i'd like to emphasize the devops > side, a bare image would bring little value to the existing. In what ways? Not disagreeing, just looking for concrete ideas here. > >>2. developers *and* operators that develop and maintain SaaS applications > >>(could be hosted on a cloud, virtualization server, etc...) > >Are we talking about the same thing, here? (SaaS) > SaaS is a delivery model, it could be hosted on virtualization > servers: from basic kvm/libvirt to full-fledged oVirt or vSphere. > Cloud hosting is commonly understood as IaaS/PaaS, but as a > developer, most of the time, development and testing is done on bare > metal & virtual machines. > Having exactely the very same image for > development/staging/production environment would be an improvement > of our target workflow. > We should learn from Vagrant success though it's not-so-good piece > of software, does solve an important issue to devops teams. > > >Best, > > > >jzb > best regards, > H. > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst [email protected] | http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
