I have been planning to put together a blueprint proposal for an agent component leveraging some of the stuff that enStratus has done with agents. The idea would be for a guest agent that is fully secure and extensible for any kind of management needs.
Thoughts on combining the efforts? -George On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Chris Behrens wrote: > Jay, > > It sounds like you understand it. :) The guest agent will be required to > configure the VM's network settings and root password, etc. I share your > thoughts. It feels like it should be a part of nova to me as well. > > - Chris > > > On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > >> If this guest agent code is going to be required for certain features >> in Nova's Cactus release (at least, XenServer features), then >> shouldn't it be in Nova? >> >> Or am I not understanding what the guest agent code does? >> >> -jay >> >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> >> wrote: >>> Paul Voccio wrote: >>>> So the question I want to pose to the community is if they are >>>> interested in the code, where should it go and how should we move >>>> forward on extending it? >>> >>> I think it's always interesting to publish the code. I'm not convinced >>> of the value of shipping it inside Nova though. >>> >>> I'm not in the POC so it's not my job to define what should be >>> considered "Openstack core" and what should not, but "compatible guest >>> agents" IMO typically warrant their own project... >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -- >>> Thierry Carrez (ttx) >>> Release Manager, OpenStack >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- George Reese - Chief Technology Officer, enStratus e: george.re...@enstratus.com t: @GeorgeReese p: +1.207.956.0217 f: +1.612.338.5041 enStratus: Governance for Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds - @enStratus - http://www.enstratus.com To schedule a meeting with me: http://tungle.me/GeorgeReese
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