On 06/30/11 - 09:36:31AM, Alfredo Moralejo wrote:
Hi,
While testing aeolus I've found that aeolus is mainly conceived for
stateless instances (
https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/issues/1059).
Will additional functionalities for stateful images be added in aeolus?.
I guess support for stateful instances would require:
- Differentiate between stopped and deleted (or terminated).
- Being able to re-start an stopped instance.
- Being able to delete an stopped instance (to destroy the underlying vm)
- Being able to modify an existing instance (for example, assigning a
different hardware profile)
I think statefull instances will be mainly required in private clouds
using RHEV or VMware providers, i.e.
As deltacloud support both start/stop/destroy vms, I guess this is
doable, is it in current roadmap plan?
It is something we want to support, but it isn't entirely clear how to support
it at the moment.
One of the key goals of Aeolus is to make applications cloud-independent. That
is, today I could launch my application on my private RHEV cloud, and tomorrow
I could launch it on EC2.
However, stateful images break this mobility. If you start a stateful image
on EC2, then for all purposes it is stuck on EC2 forever. To move to a
different cloud, you'd have to launch the instances elsewhere *and copy over
any data from EC2*. This may very well be a feature that users want, but we
have to make clear the limitations of this approach.
So in short, yeah, it's something we want, but we aren't quite sure how to
approach it yet.
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Chris Lalancette