Atlas is an api/service which controls load balancers. Currently they support zeus, but they have a model where folks can add additional software like haproxy/pound/... much like nova supports additional hypervisors/storage systems via "drivers" On Apr 23, 2011 7:26 AM, "Thomas Goirand" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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