FYI. Here is a message that was sent to the list but was refused as non-member post. I think it brings some perspective on how the ecosystem is organizing about 3rd party APIs support, so I forward it on this thread.
-------- Message original -------- Sujet: 3rd Party APIs Date : Thu, 3 May 2012 15:57:50 +0200 De : [email protected] Pour : [email protected] Copie à : [email protected] Dear all, We would like to present some insight that we have gained, through work that performed in our project, for discusion on the table of this highly interesting thread. In CompatibleOne, we took the decision to interoperate with OpenStack through a proxy and more precisely, in our case, an OCCI component that we call a PROCCI. We are using the Nova API, and only that API. We remap it for use through this OCCI component to satisfy the provisioning needs of our open source cloud broker. This technique allows us to interoperate with any other platform in much the same way. And we could easily encapsulate, and consequently be compatible with standards such as OCCI Infrastructure. Others such as CIMI or CDMI could easily be adopted as and when they become publicly available. Whilst contributing to OCCI and more than happy to be working with OpenStack, we are looking for the assurance that it is possible to be able to perform complete and fully automated provisioning through the native NOVA APIs. We are looking for well documented and stable API on which our system can be built. For the rest we can easily manage as we have already done with Cactus, Diablo and now Essex. If the transition from release to release could be less painful it would really save valuable time ;) We would also appreciate the idea to have simple test kit to self assess that our OpenStack PROCCI works properly and we would be willing to consacrate time to participate in such an effort. HTH Jean-Pierre Laisne and Jamie Marshall CompatibleOne coordinator and CTO www.compatibleone.org <http://www.compatibleone.org> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
