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[Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I just read the EasyAPI BP and, from a technical perspective, seems rational and sound. The challenge, of course, are the implications for the business side of the house. I realize it doesn't make sense to strive for backward compatibility to EC2/RS API's from EasyAPI, but perhaps the BP should discuss what an API Bridge might look like so we can pull out the existing API services and map them to EasyAPI?

Another point of consideration might be unimplemented features at the hypervisor level being reflected in the public API. For example, we have already added several features on the XenServer side that don't currently have sister operations on the KVM side. Should these operations appear in the public API? Or, should the choice of hypervisor cause the public API WADL to change? Perhaps it's fine to simply tell a "stack" user "<Blah> feature is not implemented for <Foo> hypervisor"?

Just some thoughts.

-Sandy



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From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Thierry Carrez [thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:38 AM
To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openstack] [RFC] OpenStack API

ksankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have added a new blue print
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/open-stack-api and
> associated wiki page to capture and make some progress.I have a
> launchpad account from my Ubuntu days.

Hey ksankar,

We already have a blueprint to cover the Openstack API efforts for teh
Bexar release at:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/openstack-api-parity

See previous threads in that list: The Openstack API (1.0) support
already exists in the code, it is currently the Rackspace Cloud API.
Version 1.1 of that API (in Cactus) should have an Openstack namespace
and extensibility.

> [...]
> Developing an Open Stack Cloud System-level CLI might be a good start ...

As part of the above spec, Sandy Walsh has a new python-cloudservers
library (and accompanying cloudservers CLI tool) that, with adequate
rebranding, should just be what you're looking for.

--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack

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