Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-19 Thread Adrian Otto
Gabriel, On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Gabriel Hurley wrote: > Generally spot-on with what Adrian said, but I have one question from that > email: > >> Mappings is one of the high level concepts in CFN that I think can be >> completely eliminated with auto-discovery. > > What do you mean by th

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-18 Thread Gabriel Hurley
Thanks Steve, > InstanceType and ImageId could even be specified in the environment file > that is specified on launch, so they don't need to be specified in the launch > command, ie env.yaml: > parameters: > KeyName: heat_key > InstanceType: m1.micro > ImageId: ubuntu-vm-heat-cfntools-tempe

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-18 Thread Gabriel Hurley
Generally spot-on with what Adrian said, but I have one question from that email: > Mappings is one of the high level concepts in CFN that I think can be > completely eliminated with auto-discovery. What do you mean by this? What kind of autodiscovery, and where? I'm all for eliminating mapping

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-18 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Adrian Otto's message of 2013-07-18 06:31:10 -0700: > Robert, > > On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Robert Collins > wrote: > > > On 18 July 2013 08:53, Gabriel Hurley wrote: > >> I spent a bunch of time working with and understanding Heat in H2, and I > >> find myself with one overa

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-18 Thread Adrian Otto
Robert, On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Robert Collins wrote: > On 18 July 2013 08:53, Gabriel Hurley wrote: >> I spent a bunch of time working with and understanding Heat in H2, and I >> find myself with one overarching question which I wonder if anyone's thought >> about or even answered alre

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-18 Thread Robert Collins
On 18 July 2013 08:53, Gabriel Hurley wrote: > I spent a bunch of time working with and understanding Heat in H2, and I find > myself with one overarching question which I wonder if anyone's thought about > or even answered already... > > At present, the CloudFormation template format is the fir

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-18 Thread Zane Bitter
On 18/07/13 08:14, Thomas Spatzier wrote: Steve Baker wrote on 18.07.2013 00:00:40: On 07/18/2013 08:53 AM, Gabriel Hurley wrote: I spent a bunch of time working with and understanding Heat in H2, and I find myself with one overarching question which I wonder if anyone's thought about or even

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-17 Thread Thomas Spatzier
Steve Baker wrote on 18.07.2013 00:00:40: > From: Steve Baker > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org, > Date: 18.07.2013 00:08 > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat > image/flavor name agnostic? > > On 07/18/2013 08:53 AM, Gabriel Hurley wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-17 Thread Steve Baker
On 07/18/2013 08:53 AM, Gabriel Hurley wrote: > I spent a bunch of time working with and understanding Heat in H2, and I find > myself with one overarching question which I wonder if anyone's thought about > or even answered already... > > At present, the CloudFormation template format is the fir

[openstack-dev] [Heat] Long-term, how do we make heat image/flavor name agnostic?

2013-07-17 Thread Gabriel Hurley
I spent a bunch of time working with and understanding Heat in H2, and I find myself with one overarching question which I wonder if anyone's thought about or even answered already... At present, the CloudFormation template format is the first-class means of doing things in Heat. CloudFormation