In fact, we've added some features in Essex that brings back support for the euca2ools with keystone. We are very close to having it working with swift as well, so this should be a viable deployment option by the time the essex release.
Vish On Feb 3, 2012, at 7:05 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On 02/03/2012 04:27 AM, Kevin Jackson wrote: >> Hi all, >> I need some guidance on how to proceed writing up OpenStack - >> tutorials on its use. >> A few months back, pre-Keystone, I could do a lot with euca2ools using >> the EC2 API. Since Diablo has come on a bit with Keystone, euca2ools >> methods have been hit or miss. I can do the basics, but not anything >> like using the nova client. >> >> All my notes so far are euca2ools based - but given the amount of >> issues I've come up against, am I just using the wrong tools? Is it a >> goal of OpenStack to have an EC2 API, or should I be concentrating on >> the OpenStack API? > > Personally, I would love to see tutorials that show usage of both tools (but > of course, I know this is a big ask!) :) > > EC2 API support is not going away, and therefore support for euca2ools isn't > going away. So if there are problems using euca2ools with OpenStack, then > bugs should be filed and bugs should be fixed. > > There is a Nova EC2 API subteam (headed by Chuck Short IIRC, cc'd) that > should help to verify, triage, fix and track bugs related to EC2, so I would > definitely advise entering bugs for problems you encounter. > > Cheers! > -jay > >> http://nova.openstack.org/devref/api.html >> >> Says >> >> Nova has a system for managing multiple APIs on different subdomains. >> Currently there is support for the OpenStack API, as well as the >> Amazon EC2 API. >> >> This sounds great, but euca2ools isn't working in all scenarios >> (simple things like adding in security groups, etc). >> So... do I >> >> 1) drop euca2ools as a way of managing OpenStack >> 2) do I just direct bugs to euca2ools maintainers? >> >> or 3) have I just encountered some bugs and that people have no issues >> with the full suite of euca2ools? (For the record I'm using Diablo, >> if you suggest I should concentrate on Essex I'm fine with that). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Kev > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
