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[Oleg Gelbukh <ogelbukh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse,

Thank you for quick answer and interesting information. Personally I like
the idea of multiple projects as ecosystem around OpenStack core.

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Best regards,
Oleg Gelbukh
Mirantis Inc.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Jesse Andrews <anotherjesse@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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