On 04/23/2011 12:27 PM, Josh Odom wrote: > Stackers, > I'm excited to tell the OpenStack community that the Atlas team within > Rackspace is open sourcing our load balancing service. Next week we will > be proposing that this project be recognized as an affiliated OpenStack > project in incubation status. > > The Rackspace Cloud has been operating this product in a beta phase since > November of last year and this week has just gone into general > availability. We¹ve been very pleased with the reception from our > customers and excited about the prospect of this project potentially being > part of the larger OpenStack community. > > The project is hosted at https://launchpad.net/atlas-lb and the team is > excited to collaborate with others in the OpenStack community to make the > code better and to integrate with the other applicable OpenStack projects. > > Uma Goring, the engineering manager for the project within Rackspace and > the project technical lead and I will be hosting a session at the summit > to review the project and some of our ideas for the path forward. As part > of this effort, we will begin the discussion on the API specification for > version 1.1 of the service. This will be done completely in the open with > the community; using the mailing list, IRC channel, and the OpenStack wiki. > > We¹re excited about this project and look forward to discussing further at > the design summit next week. We¹ve opened a blueprint to facilitate the > discussion around this project @ > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-devel/+spec/openstack-lbaas. > > > -Josh
Hi Josh, Can you describe the project a bit? Why is it better than let's say HAProxy? Thomas _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
