Alex, You may also want to take a look at OpenShift (https://github.com/openshift). Rather than VMs, they separate applications using SELinux controls which leads to far greater densities. This approach has allowed them to support a number of unique features (such as SSH access for each account) that are not available on other platforms.
Thanks, -John On Dec 4, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Alex Heneveld <alex.henev...@cloudsoftcorp.com> wrote: > > Hi folks-- > > To get the ball rolling here are a few questions on design/features. And my > answers, in order to kick off the argument discussion this needs! I'll > collate and post at #576. > > > *(1) Should we try for an AWS or vApp look-alike? Or build something around > Cloudstack concepts?* > > Something new and lightweight based around Cloudstack, taking the best of the > others. > > Cloudstack concepts (networking, service offerings) have evolved a lot since > EC2 and are more expressive. If we try to mimic something else too much > we'll end up with a poorly fitting shoe. > > A migration tool to take other template types would then be an option. > > > *(2) What functionality do people care about most?* > > - ability to launch a set of VM's based on template ID or template key/value > details > - ability to define a scalable cluster of a template > - ability to attach external (code) policies to that cluster > - ability to specify that the collection is on a private subnet with only > selected VM+ports exposed via a public IP > > > *(3) What deployment and management tools/techniques are people using and > would like to see supported here?* > > - bash scripts (install and run scripts, with ability to refer to other VMs > programmatically in the script) > - deploy a puppet-master, then bring up other "stem-cell" nodes which connect > to the puppet master > - (David Nalley has already mentioned knife-cloudstack using chef) > - whirr ( http://whirr.apache.org ) > - brooklyn ( http://brooklyncentral.github.com ) for clusters and policies, > building on the above > > > Best, > Alex >
