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[Jesse Andrews <anotherjesse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Oleg,

NOTE: this is my opinion - I do not speak for all of OpenStack!

While our focus is on a successful Essex, the RCB team has started
thinking about Folsom.  Our current thoughts is focusing on enabling
an eco-system **around** core.  OpenStack shouldn't try to be IaaS,
PaaS and SaaS - instead a solid base to build these other systems on.
[1]

OpenStack is about "Essential Infrastructure Services" (currently
compute, storage, network) and supporting tools/apis/docs.
Determining if LB is considered Infrastructure (vs. platform) and if
it is Essential (a fuzzy word - what is essential to one isn't
essential to another)

That said - regardless of whether Atlas land in core [2], my team wants to add:

 * documentation/tutorials/examples about how to add a new (iaas or
paas) services to a cloud
 * simple integration of LB service (for instance an optional devstack
component).
 * an opensource backend for the LB service (haproxy, pound, ...)

The thought is that an entire eco-system of components that plug into
a cloud is more powerful than having OpenStack "choose winners" that
become "core". [3]

I look forward to conversations about LBaaS and the definition of OpenStack.

Jesse Andrews
Rackspace Cloud Builders

[1] the analogy I use is that the Apache Web Server doesn't try to be
Django or Rails, but instead be a great web server to run rails on top
of.
[2] in addition to the question about if lbaas belongs in core, the
incubation process would need to be gone through
http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/Incubation
[3] rather than blessing project X to be an official platform
component, enable many projects to run on top and let open source /
market dynamics determine winners.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Oleg Gelbukh <ogelbukh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, everyone
>
> What is the status of this LBaaS project for the OpenStack? As far as I
> know, the open-source version is compatible with OpenStack. But is it
> possible to merge the Java code in the OpenStack ecosystem? Is someone
> working on re-implementing Atlas-LB in Python and eventually adding to the
> projects incubator, or there are some other lbaas projects out there?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Oleg Gelbukh
> Mirantis Inc.
>
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