On 11/12/2015 11:18, Andrea Turli wrote:
Hi,
currently we are struggling to have a good jclouds-azurecompute api to be
promoted to jclouds/jclouds.
I've noticed that MS suggests now to use (and/or switch) to ARM (Azure
Resource Manager) and they have marked the previous API (and also the
console) with `classic` label.
I don't know if `classic` will be deprecated soon, but it seems sensible to
consider the switch to ARM: those API are json based which will
considerably reduce the glitches due to xml we are facing since the
beginning and they introduce a stronger network model (port ranges w/t
limitations and security groups etc) which look a step in the right
direction.
Thoughts?
While I confirm that it seems that ARM is the future, I also believe
that the classic API is not likely to disappear soon.
I'd propose then to not consider ARM for promoting jclouds-azurecompute,
but to open an issue on JIRA right now for adding the ARM support there
(or to start a brand new provider, don't know which alternative fits
better).
Regards.
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