On 13 February 2013 16:23, Andrew Freitas <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, > > We've been using Whirr for a while now with Amazon's EC2 service but we > would like to switch over to using a private cloud service maintained by > Openstack. I know jclouds supports it, but I can't find any details (e.g. > provider name) for whirr support of openstack. It would be simplest for us > to continue using Whirr only with a private cloud provider, but we need to > know if Whirr supports Openstack (or if there is another better provider > option) before continuing. Any guidance is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Andrew > > -yes it works; for a while rackspace UK did some throttling, whirr.provider=rackspace-cloudservers-uk whirr.identity=yourusername whirr.credential=aabbccddeeff #my custom image whirr.image-id=LON/859b3af3-abbc-4fdd-a8be-ff4d03de6a1f We had some problems with rackspace UK throttling requests and blocking the operation, but that's been resolved with the help of Rackspace (which shows they do care) I think the US provider name is rackspace-cloudservers There is some ongoing work for Hadoop integration directly with OpenStack's Swift blobstore, of which my branch lives up at : https://github.com/hortonworks/Hadoop-and-Swift-integration. You can follow its progress on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8545 ; when done you'll be able to add a new JAR to hadoop/lib -or include it in jobs- to move data between HDFS and Swift.
