Dear Florian,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the update and detailed summary of the SNIA Cloud Plugfest and OGF32 (comments inline)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
SNIA Cloud Plugfest (<a href="http://www.snia.org/cloud/cloudplugfest" target="_blank">http://www.snia.org/cloud/cloudplugfest</a>)<br>
- The Cloud Plugfest went well, even so the OCCI participation was not as<br>
good as I hoped for. We had some interesting discussions on JSON rendering<br>
for OCCI and on further integration of OCCI and CDMI.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is very interesting, I think that work should focus on integrating CDMI and OCCI.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- CDMI is gaining momentum with several implementations showing up and it<br>
looks as if it would be very well suited to be used with OpenNebula. We<br>
have a few students working on combining OpenNebula with CDMI, but we<br>
would be glad to have a chat with the OpenNebula developers what their<br>
visions are in this area. We will probably be able to demonstrate a first<br>
prototype for CDMI integration in OpenNebula during the next Plugfest<br>
which will take place Sep 19 - Sep 22 in Santa Clara.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Excellent, please contact Javier (<a href="mailto:jfontan@opennebula.org">jfontan@opennebula.org</a>) or Daniel (<a href="mailto:dmolona@opennebula.org">dmolona@opennebula.org</a>) to solve your questions or organize a conference call. They are also in this mailing list.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- We decided to have one of the next Cloud Plugfest in europe, probably<br>
during spring 2012. We still need to figure out the details during one of<br>
the next Plugfest coordination meetings, but I think this could be a great<br>
opportunity to get more people from europe involved.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed, interoperability and portability are key issues, and we should go beyond a specification to provide a working implementation.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- On the other hand, remote participation is also received very well. A<br>
chatroom, mailinglist and wiki page have been set up and will be filled<br>
with more details in the future. In the Wiki<br>
(<a href="http://plugfest.sniacloud.com/wiki/index.php" target="_blank">http://plugfest.sniacloud.com/wiki/index.php</a>) we started collecting all<br>
information on existing OCCI + CDMI implementations and on test instance<br>
if available. The main page should be publicly accessible, but there<br>
currently seems to be a problem with the page being protected, but I<br>
already asked for a fix.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I added this link to our WG page.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">OGF 32<br>
- Even so the participation was not optimal, OGF 32 was considered a<br>
success by most people who attended. Regarding OCCI, we had a good<br>
discussion on the integration of OCCI into the Simple API for Grid<br>
Applications (SAGA).<br>
- During a talk by Rick Clark on the status of OpenStack, we had an<br>
interesting discussion on the need of open cloud standards. He also<br>
mentioned the Open Cloud Initiative (<a href="http://www.opencloudinitiative.org/" target="_blank">http://www.opencloudinitiative.org/</a>)<br>
currently mainly driven by OpenStack, where a participation may be a good<br>
idea.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was not aware of this new initiative. I do not clear see their positioning compared with DMTF, OGF or SNIA.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- OpenStack is currently revising their API architecture which will help<br>
to bring an OCCI 1.1 implementation to OpenStack towards the end of this<br>
year or beginning of next year.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sounds good, because I heard that they are developing their own API based on RackSpace Cloud API.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- Rick Clark was positively surprised about the new features of OpenNebula<br>
3.0 and said to be in or will come back to talks with Ignacio regarding a<br>
closer cooperation between both projects.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I know him since the early days of the cloud in 2008.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Status of OCCI:<br>
- we are close to full OCCI 1.1 compliance, but we are still working on<br>
parsing the requests. We will commit a larger change on handling OCCI<br>
requests, which will incorporate a prototype implementation of a JSON<br>
rendering<br>
- the OCCI framework is working well together with OpenNebula 3.0 beta. We<br>
still need to do lots of testing and iron out a few bugs<br>
- we are working on modularizing the OCCI framework to make it more<br>
reusable. We started writing an OCCI client using the same ruby classes as<br>
the server and we would like to provide a ruby gem in the near future<br>
allowing others to easily create or integrate OCCI clients in their<br>
projects<br>
- We are working hard on a well designed templating system and had a good<br>
discussion on it during the last OCCI WG meeting. We like to finnish EC2<br>
style creation of "small","medium","large" instances as well as OS<br>
templates like "Ubuntu 11.04 64bit" for the next release of the OCCI<br>
framework<br>
- We have some students working on OCCI / CDMI integration and would like<br>
to sync up with the OpenNebula developers on their views of managing<br>
storage. The CDMI integration is currently being considered on two levels.<br>
Once, we GET an Image from a CDMI server and store it in the OpenNebula<br>
image repository. A tighter CDMI integration is being considered by using<br>
the CDMI export protocol feature<br>
(<a href="http://cdmi.sniacloud.com/CDMI_Spec/13-Exported_Protocols/13-Exported_Prot
ocols.htm" target="_blank">http://cdmi.sniacloud.com/CDMI_Spec/13-Exported_Protocols/13-Exported_Prot<br>
ocols.htm</a>)<br>
- we would like to release a stable version of the OCCI framework soon<br>
after the release of OpenNebula 3.0. Is there already a planned release<br>
date?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Excellent job, please contact Javier or Jaime to solve your questions in storage management. Third week of September is teh planned release date for ONE 3.0.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>
I will be on vacation starting this thursday for 2 weeks. After that I'd<br>
be glad to participate in discussions on the future of open standards and<br>
the further roadmap for OpenNebula/OCCI/CDMI/OVF.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, hope you enjoyed.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Cheers,<br>
Florian<br>
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