Excerpts from Joshua Harlow's message of 2017-02-10 11:07:29 -0800: > Fox, Kevin M wrote: > > I'd say kube-dns and designate are very different technologies. > > > > kube-dns is a service discovery mechanism for kubernetes intend to provide > > internal k8s resolution. The fact it uses dns to implement service > > discovery is kind of an implementation detail, not its primary purpose. > > There's no need for private dns management, scaling past the size of the > > k8s cluster itself, etc. A much easier problem to solve at the moment. > > > > Designate really is a multitenant dns as a service implementation. While it > > can be used for service discovery, its not its primary purpose. > > > > I see no reason they couldn't share some common pieces, but care should be > > given not to just say, lets throw out one for the other, as they really are > > different animals. > > > > Arg, the idea wasn't meant to be that (abandon one for the other), but > just to investigate the larger world and maybe we have to adapt our > model of `multitenant dns as a service implementation` to be slightly > different; so what..., if it means we get to keep contributors and grow > a larger community (and partner with others and learn new things and > adopt new strategies/designs and push the limits of tech and ...) by > doing so then that's IMHO good. >
Perhaps Designate could go looking for a larger community outside of OpenStack. One of the problems with tightly integrating in the OpenStack paradigm is that we only see our way of thinking. For instance, we have a access to a user base without trying since OpenStack users will always look for an OpenStack project first. But there may very well be users out there who do have multi-tenant DNS needs, but they don't want Keystone et.al. With a few tweaks, any service provider that doesn't have a good DNSaaS but needs one, multi or single tenant, could have Designate, and that would invite quite a bit more contribution. I have no idea what the potential community size is, but it sounds like "not 0", and given that it sounds like Designate just needs a couple more active developers, so perhaps it's worth socializing externally. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
