This application runtime provisioning concept definitively looks
interesting. I'd love to discuss how it should look like and what
makes sense, so please, keep us posted and share the progress of your
PoC and the ideas that may come from it.
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 10:50, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrea,
>
> For jCloud compute abstraction, I think I can do something "compliant".
> jClouds and Karaf instance (or even Cellar node) can map indeed.
>
> For now it's a rough idea, but I will started a PoC on this area. I
> think other "application runtime provisioning" support can be interested
> in jClouds.
>
> Let me start a PoC (I will probably bother you with some questions ;)),
> I keep you posted.
>
> Thanks !
>
> Regards
> JB
>
> On 03/10/2018 09:14, Andrea Turli wrote:
> > Interesting idea!
> >
> > As Andrew I've little knowledge of karaf, how do you think it will fit with
> > the jclouds compute abstraction? To what can you map jclouds node in the
> > karaf world? A Karaf container or a "service" running inside the karaf
> > container? What's an jclouds image or location in that respect?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Il mer 3 ott 2018, 07:05 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> ha
> > scritto:
> >
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >> exactly, you got the idea.
> >>
> >> For instance, it could result to create a AMI on Amazon EC2, etc.
> >>
> >> The purpose is exactly what you described:
> >>
> >> - be able to install a Karaf instance on a cloud provider
> >> - control the "cloud Karaf instance" (start, stop, ...)
> >> - expose this instance as a compute service
> >>
> >> It's something I planned in Karaf Cellar, but I think it makes more
> >> sense to have in jclouds (and Cellar will leverage jClouds).
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> JB
> >>
> >> On 03/10/2018 01:46, Andrew Phillips wrote:
> >>>>> On the other hand, I was thinking about adding a Provisioning/Compute
> >>>>>> Service for Karaf. The idea is to easily provision and bootstrap
> >> Apache
> >>>>>> Karaf runtime (vanilla or custom) on a cloud provider.
> >>>
> >>> If I understand this correctly, the idea is firstly to use jclouds to
> >>> install (?) a Karaf runtime on a cloud provider, then expose that
> >>> runtime as a compute service in its own right?
> >>>
> >>> That would be an interesting idea that I don't think has been tried
> >>> previously - in what sense (question from someone with little Karaf
> >>> background here) does Karaf fit the model of a cloud compute service?
> >>> What type of "things" can you provision in Karaf, for example?
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> ap
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >> jbono...@apache.org
> >> http://blog.nanthrax.net
> >> Talend - http://www.talend.com
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> jbono...@apache.org
> http://blog.nanthrax.net
> Talend - http://www.talend.com
