On 20/11/12 23:50, Matt Wagner wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:54:51PM +0100, Tomas Sedovic wrote:
> Good news everyone!
>
> During our discussions about the Aeolus API at the first Technical
> Cabal meeting, Michal Fojtik suggested we look at the CIMI spec
> (which Deltacloud partially implements).
>
> Apparently, it tackles a lot of things we are or will be discussing
> here, too. Things such as state changes, multi-instance deployments,
> networking, etc.
This looks interesting. I'd had only brief exposure to the concept
prior to now, but some of the concepts it exposes do seem to line up
well with what we do.
Is Deltacloud still the only project implementing this in the wild? It
yes - we are aware (through our participation in dmtf cmwg) that there
are others 'working on implementations' but we don't have anything more
concrete than that. There is a plugfest being organised at the f2f
meeting this December so we may learn more about other implementations
there (David Lutterkort will be representing).
seems interesting, but I'd hate for us to implement an API that
few
people end up using. (On the other hand, I suppose everyone else is
probably saying this exact same thing right now...)
right... and there *are no guarantees* - however, if you look at the
membership of the CMWG there is a serious industrial backing - Red Hat,
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, VMWare, Fujitsu, France Telecom, Telecom Italia,
Telefonica and many others. I'd be surprised/disappointed if we don't
see at least a few adopters amongst the people that made significant
investments of time and effort to develop the spec.
> You can download it from the DMTF website:
>
>
http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0263_1.0.1.pdf
>
> It's a *massive* document (178 pages, ffs) but I think it may be
> worth checking it out.
fwiw - I've been sitting on the DMTF weekly calls for 2+ years where we
developed this spec. I don't know it by heart (!) but can definitely
help and/or point you in the right direction if there are any questions,
thanks, marios
Wait, you open with "Good news everyone!" and close with a
link to a
178-page API specification? I'd hate to see your idea of *bad* news. ;)
Seriously, though, this is interesting and seems like it's worth
exploring further. (I can't say I've read the document in full yet.)
-- Matt