On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 22:36 +0000, Adrian Otto wrote: > OpenStack Devs, > > I'd like to introduce you to a team working on an interesting problem space. > We would like to know what you think about Configuration Discovery. We plan > to build a tool that aids in the process of automated configuration discovery. > > At Rackspace we work with customers who have pre-existing infrastructure and > software running in production. To help them with changes, migrations, or > configuration management, we often have to determine what they have in-place > already. We have some tools and knowledge in-house that we use now, but we > would like to create something even better in the open that would integrate > well with OpenStack ecosystem projects like Heat, Solum, Murano, etc… > > The concept for the tool is simple. The inputs are facts we know about the > current system (a username, API Key, URL, etc.) and the output is a set of > structured configuration information. That information can be used for: > > - Generating Heat Templates > - Solum Application creation/import > - Creation of Chef recipes/cookbooks, Puppet modules, Ansible playbooks, > setup scripts, etc.. > - Configuration analysis (compare this config with a catalog of best > practices) > - Configuration monitoring (has the configuration changed?) > - Troubleshooting > > We would like to hear from anyone interested in this problem domain, start a > conversation on how this fits in the OpenStack ecosystem, and start exploring > possible use cases that would be useful for users and operators of OpenStack > clouds. > > For more information about the team, implementation, and prior art in this > area, please see: > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Satori
In the Related Work section, you list: Devstructure Blueprint (https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint) That is precisely what I would recommend. I don't see value in having a separate OpenStack project that does this. Best, -jay _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
