On 07/25/2013 06:11 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Stefano Maffulli wrote: >> I have seen lots of discussions on blogs and twitter heating up around >> Amazon API compatibility and OpenStack. This seems like a recurring >> topic, often raised by pundits and recently joined by members of the >> community. I think it's time to bring the discussions inside our >> community to our established channels and processes. Our community has >> established ways to discuss and take technical decisions, from the more >> accessible General mailing list to the Development list to the Design >> Summits, the weekly project meetings, the reviews on gerrit and the >> governing bodies Technical Committee and Board of Directors. >> >> While we have not seen a large push in the community recently via >> contributions or deployments, Amazon APIs have been an option for >> deployments from the early days of OpenStack. >> >> I would like to have this discussion inside the established channels of >> our community and get the opinions from those that maintain that >> OpenStack should increase efforts for Amazon APIs compatibility, and >> ultimately it would be good to see code contributions. > > Like you say, all this needs is people to start putting resources where > their mouth is and pushing improvements through our regular channels: > proposing a blueprint, discussing it at our summits, signing up to do an > actionable piece of work and deliver it in one of our development > milestones. > > I don't think anyone argues that having AWS compatibility would be a bad > thing, as long as we keep a local API that lets us exhibit features that > are not (yet) in AWS APIs when those features make sense. > > Having a common internal layer upon which the various external APIs can > plug is also pretty common sense, the historical reason we don't have > that yet was that nobody signed up to do the work, while at the same > time Canonical signed up to do the AWSOME proxy. Since apparently this > effort was abandoned, the road is open again, just waiting for cars to > pass on it. >
If an external proxy (like AWSOME) is what you want, one of those already exists (at least for the EC2 API). http://deltacloud.apache.org/ It supports EC2 on the frontend and the OpenStack compute API on the backend. I'm not sure how using this compares to the EC2 implementation in nova, though. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev