Hi all More volunteers for you - myself (Calum Loudon) and Colin Tregenza Dancer from Metaswitch (http://metaswitch.com).
We're new to OpenStack development, so a bit of context: we develop software for the telecoms space, ranging from low-level network stacks to voice applications. We see enormous interest in the idea of the "software Telco", with telecoms providers now really understanding cloud and wanting to move to it; you may have heard of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), a big push by the telecoms industry to define how this will work, and which implicitly assumes OpenStack as the underlying cloud platform. NFV needs a few things OpenStack doesn't currently provide, mainly due to the extremely high reliability & bandwidth/latency requirements of Telco-grade apps compared to typical Enterprise-grade data apps, and we want to contribute code to help close those gaps. From what I learnt in Hong Kong, I think that initially means richer placement policies (e.g. more advanced (anti)affinity rules; locating VMs "close" to storage or networks; globally-optimal placement) and if I'm following this list correctly then I think this activity is the first step towards that goal, enabling in future phases Yathi's vision of instance groups with smart resource placement [1] which closely resembles our own. So we'd love to help in whatever way is needed - please count us in. cheers Calum [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IiPI0sfaWb1bdYiMWzAAx0HYR6UqzOan_Utgml5W1HI/edit Calum Loudon Director of Architecture Metaswitch Networks P +44 (0)208 366 1177 E calum.lou...@metaswitch.com -----Original Message----- From: Robert Collins [mailto:robe...@robertcollins.net] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 4:59 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler I'm looking for 4-5 folk who have: - modest Nova skills - time to follow a fairly mechanical (but careful and detailed work needed) plan to break the status quo around scheduler extraction And of course, discussion galore about the idea :) Cheers, Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev