Hello,

I am an Apache CloudStack developer and PMC member. At the last apachecon I 
have been looking for feedback on a functional specification for distributed 
applications [1]. So far, we have not gotten any feedback from outside the 
project but from within we have been searching our way around and have gotten 
to look at Brooklyn. Hope you guys`n’dolls have some patients with me.

What the CloudStack project aims to be is an integrated turnkey solution for 
entry level cloud deployments. That means we don’t want to burden users with 
extra install responsibilities as much as we can. Looking at clustered 
environments we don’t want people to have to install aria, Brooklyn or 
TerraForm to be able to orchestrate groups of related VMs or containers. On the 
other hand, we do not want to re-invent the wheel as we kind of did in the 
Functional Specification from the link above [1].

I know that Brooklyn supports CloudStack through a plugin but I am looking for 
a way to integrate the engine, that Brooklyn provides, into CloudStack so that 
writers of specific application plugins like ccs, a K8Cluster plugin [2], can 
write their environment description in a rather generic way and call the 
underlying CloudStack API to have the ‘applicationscape’ automagically created.

Do you people have any advice here?

[1] 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/ApplicationCluster+service
[2] https://github.com/shapeblue/ccs



Daan Hoogland
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