On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 13:12 -0800, Alex Freedland wrote: > Andrew, Jay and all, > > Thank you for bringing this topic up. Incidentally, just a month ago > at OpenStack Israel I spoke to Monty and other HP folks about getting > the Libra initiatives integrated into LBaaS. I am happy that this > discussion is now happening on the mailing list. > > I remember the history of how this got started. Mirantis was working > with a number of customers (GAP, PayPal, and a few others) who were > asking for LBaaS feature. At that time, Atlas was the default choice > in the community, but its Java-based implementation did not agree with > the rest of OpenStack. > > There was no Libra anywhere in the OpenStack sandbox, so we have > proposed a set of blueprints and Eugene Nikonorov and the team started > moving ahead with the implementation. Even before the code was > accepted into Quantum, a number of customers started to use it and a > number of vendors (F5, Radware, etc.) joined the community to add > there own plugins. > > Consequently, the decision was made to add LBaaS to Quantum (aka > Neutron).
Thanks for the above history, Alex, appreciated. > We would love to see the Libra developers join the Neutron team and > collaborate on the ways to bring the two initiatives together. Agreed. However, I'm afraid progress towards alignment won't happen until there's a concerted effort between the two groups to resolve any architectural differences and a create set of blueprints that outline the work required to bring the best of both worlds together. Best, -jay _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
