Hi Joe, Thanks for the information. I would say that yes multi-site, region is hard to define and we struggled with it a bit, and perhaps still will. :) But your email definitely helps, and I will pull information from it to include in some of our documentation.
I attended one of the tricircle sessions at Barcelona, so have a little bit of background on triciricle. Thanks, Curtis. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:11 AM, joehuang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I found your meeting logs about multi-site/kingbird/tricircle, and some of > you get confused about that. Some short explanation here: > > Multisite is a requirement project in OPNFV to identify the gap and > requirement in OpenStack to make OpenStack work for NFV multi-site cloud. > > Kingbird is one sub-project of Multisite, which is aiming at centralized > quota management, centralized view for distributed virtual resources, > synchronisation of ssh keys, images, flavors, security groups, etc. across > regions in OpenStack multi-region deployments. Currently is working on > key-pair sync, and centralized quota management feature has been implemented. > > While Tricircle is one OpenStack big-tent official project, and focuses on > networking automation across Neutron in OpenStack multi-region deployments. > Tricircle has basic features L2/L3 networking across Neutron based on local > network and shared_VLAN, and is working on VxLAN based L2 networking across > Neutron, so that L2/L3 networking can also leverage the VxLAN L2 networking > capability. > > During the last year(2015) discussion, both kingbird / tricircle are > candidate solution to address the multisite clouds, but Tricircle has > narrowed down its scope during the OpenStack big-tent project application. > Kingbird and Tricircle can work together or separately in OpenStack > multi-region deployment, they are complimented each other now. Kingbird has > no features about networking automation, and Tricircle has no features > related to Nova/Cinder... > > Tricircle is mostly visible in OpenStack community, while kingbird is mostly > visible in OPNFV community. > > Welcome to join the meeting: > Tricircle: IRC meeting: > https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=openstack-meeting on every Wednesday > starting from UTC 13:00 > Multisite & Kingbird: IRC: > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opnfv-meeting on every Thursday > 8:00-9:00 UTC (During winter time, means CET 9:00 AM). > > Best Regards > Chaoyi Huang (joehuang) > > ________________________________________ > From: Curtis [[email protected]] > Sent: 30 November 2016 5:57 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Openstack-operators] [telecom-nfv] Meeting #14 > > Hi All, > > We will have our bi-weekly meeting tomorrow at the usual time/place [1]. > > We'll continue our conversation from last meeting regarding what a > minimum NFVi OpenStack deployment is. In particular we got a bit stuck > around the whether or not it would be "multi-cloud/site/region" and > what those terms actually mean, which is quite hard to define IMHO. > > Please feel free to add to the agenda [2]! > > I noticed that OPNFV has a project around multi-site/region [3] that > perhaps we should be looking into if we do decide that > multi-site/region is something we'd like to pursue. > > Thanks, > Curtis. > > [1]: > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#OpenStack_Operators_Telco_and_NFV_Working_Group > [2]: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ops-telco-nfv-meeting-agenda > [3]: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/multisite/Multisite+Deployment+Environment > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators -- Blog: serverascode.com _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
