+1 let's merge soon https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/pull/197 and promote azurecompute!
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò < ilgro...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > Tirasa - Open Source Excellence > http://www.tirasa.net/ > > Involved at The Apache Software Foundation: > member, Syncope PMC chair, Cocoon PMC, Olingo PMC, CXF committer > http://home.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > >
