On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 13:05 +0400, Ruslan Kamaldinov wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Adam Lawson <alaw...@aqorn.com> wrote: > > Doesn't Murano address this already? > > Please note that Murano is no longer a windows-as-a-service or > smth-as-a-serivce. Murano is an application catalog [1]. But you're > absolutely right, this is a perfect use case for Murano - application > developer can describe those applications and publish them in catalog, > which will enable cloud users to combine those apps together. LDAP, > Kerberos, Samba, ActiveDirectory - are applications in terms of > Murano. > > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano
G'Day, Indeed, I think Murano may well be the natural home of Samba deployed as an AD DC, inside a tenant. I reached out to the Murano team a few months ago, but haven't have any time to put into development of a Samba AD DC application yet. I work for Catalyst in NZ, and lurk here and quite close to our internal OpenStack team. I think OpenStack is a great opportunity for Samba and Samba is a great fit for OpenStack, particularly when we look at the emerging market of Desktop as Service, things like hosted Exchange (or more particularly OpenChange), and single-sign-on from the Windows-dominated enterprise. What I would like to do is to work closely with someone already more familiar with the OpenStack world, and provide my expertise and assistance to that existing effort. I also think that Samba does justify being beyond just being an application in Murano, because for the best results, Samba should be used, but not administered directly. Instead, what would bring the best out of Samba is deployment like in Trove, where the Tenant does not get rights to directly touch the instance - operation of the AD DC should be by OpenStack, not the end-user. Finally, yes Samba certainly plays a role in Manila, and while currently very well hidden, I think that some really great functionality can be exposed via the 'generic' driver that would be far from generic. Imagine if that driver 'just worked' with exposed snapshots via the windows 'previous versions' tab, for example. Or, imagine if we used the OpenStack machine credentials to securely get a Kerberos ticket for access to a big multi-tenant file share? As I mention, I do lurk here, but also feel free to contact me directly or the Samba lists if you are implementing Samba as an OpenStack service, and you think I can help, or think I've missed some discussion. Thanks, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Catalyst IT http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
