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Quark, an NVP plugin alternative

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From: Matt Dietz <matt.dietz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 23:01:30 +0000
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Hey all,

	We just started work on a new plugin for Quantum that we're calling
Quark. The blueprint lives here:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quark

	In short, we want to provide an alternative to the existing NVP plugin
that's a bit more cognizant of how much it should be interacting with the
backend implementation. We've been running a hybridized mishmash of
one-off Nova network manager, melange and one-off, v1 API Quantum for some
time now, and we decided it was time to start pushing some work upstream
that provides everyone with the performance benefits we've been trying to
squeeze out of our implementation. Essentially, Quark will try to
denormalize a lot of the data the existing plugin normally goes to NVP
for, and provides an IPAM solution more like what Melange gives us.

	All work will be in the open. Comments, patches and snarky insight
welcome. 

	https://github.com/jkoelker/quark

-Matt