+1 The interface not only needs to be written from ground up but the looks and features should also improve. A feature recommendation is to create the Cartridges from within the Interface - this should not be complicated for openStack as the imageID and name should be fetch using the glance API - therefore a drop-down menu would allow for a selection of the images to be used as Stratos Cartridges.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Pradeep Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > From time to time, the need of a separate front-end for Statos came up in > various other threads. Here I'm starting this thread to bootstrap the > effort. > > Why not existing UI: > > - The current admin console is derived from the Carbon UI framework > - It has the 'Carbon' look. > - Little bit hard to customize > - It depends on WS backend calls > > The proposed frontend: > > - A webapp sitting inside Carbon framework (make use of embedded tomcat) > - We can decide on the final look and feel > - easy to host/customize (can host in separate tomcat instance if the user > wants) > - uses REST calls for backend communication. > > wdyt ? > > If you find this feature useful, other question would be, > > - what web technologies to use (jsp,gwt,etc) > - the end design (wire-frames) > > > thanks, > --Pradeep
