Hey Suriya, It's glad to hear that you are interested in the GCE support integration project. Please find my comments in-line.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Sathyasuriya Priya <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Stratos developers, > > I am Suriyapriya Veluchamy, currently an MS CS student at NPU, Fremont, > CA, USA. > I am interested in the GSOC project listed in jira - adding support for > Google Compute Engine. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-480 > > I had a few clarifications after going through Stratos documentation and > codebase, in the last couple of days. > > I see that Cloud Controller is the component that directly interacts with > laases. Rest of the components are lass agnostic (mostly?). > Correct. > I also see that jclouds is adding support for GCE - > https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs-google > Not sure on the working status of the support. If somebody could brief on > this, that would be helpful. > I see... so we need to first identify the status of the GCE support of jclouds. > Since stratos uses jclouds, it should have support for GCE ? (may be not > all features may work) > Yes, at least the basic functionality should work. > > My question is about the scope of the project. Does it involve working > with jcloud team as well to get the required support ? > Or stratos will directly use the GCE apis to get the required support. > It's not feasible to implement jclouds API for GCE as part of this project. So, initial idea was generated based on the fact that jclouds has support for GCE. > > I would like to measure the complexity of the work. Do you expect it to be > more of integration with jclouds GCE support + fixing bugs + testing in > stratos. > Yes, exactly. You might have to fix issues that you will encounter in jclouds GCE too. > Or would it be more full-fledged development needed to get the things > working. > > I also see large scale testing as one of the goals. I haven't thought > about it in detail. But, any suggestions on how much percent of total work > would this item cover (may be 25-40%)? > > I hope above answers clarified this question too. > Please let me know if I am not clear in any of the questions. > So, as a starting point, if you can contact jclouds developer list and get clarified on the status of the GCE support, that'll be great. > > Thank you > Suriya > -- Best Regards, Nirmal Nirmal Fernando. PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos, Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
