Re: [Openstack] API for remotely controlling nova-manage

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/18/2011 02:30 AM, ksan...@doubleclix.net wrote: Couple of points: a) We do need a North-facing interface that supports headless operation incl billing, reporting and so forth b) IMHO, REST APIs are better than SOAP interfaces c) Also JSON might be a good choice d) There are already

[Openstack] API for remotely controlling nova-manage

2011-04-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Subject says it all. How should I do that? Is it planned? Please forget me if the question seems silly, I currently don't know the code of Nova well enough (I mainly worked on Debian packaging for the moment). Let me explain my intentions a bit more. I'd like to create a central web

Re: [Openstack] API for remotely controlling nova-manage

2011-04-17 Thread Eric Day
Hi Thomas, I think ideally nova-manage would simply be a command line client using the exposed API in bin/nova-api. So what we really need is nova-api additions to encapsulate the nova-manage functionality, and you could hit that directly. There has been a lot of API functionality added in this

Re: [Openstack] API for remotely controlling nova-manage

2011-04-17 Thread ksankar
might fit your requirements. We really do not want to yet another cloud API with it's own programming model, if possible.Cheersk/ Original Message Subject: [Openstack] API for remotely controlling nova-manage From: Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr Date: Sun, April 17, 2011 10:58 am

Re: [Openstack] API for remotely controlling nova-manage

2011-04-17 Thread Ken Pepple
On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Subject says it all. How should I do that? Is it planned? I believe work has already started on this at http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaAdminAPI … While this isn't everything that you want, it's probably a starting point. /k --- Ken Pepple

Re: [Openstack] API for remotely controlling nova-manage

2011-04-17 Thread Jesse Andrews
+1 We were hoping to move it to an openstack admin api. Hopefully now that openstack api 1.1 exists we can get traction on flushing it out with commands like these (and those contained within the ec2 extensions for administration) -- Sent from my Tandy 1000sx Jesse Andrews