[one-users] Megam - Cloud orchestrator for OpenNebula

Javier Fontan jfontan at opennebula.org
Wed Apr 23 06:48:58 PDT 2014


Hi Thomas,

This addon looks really good! Could you please send the mail again to
the development mailing list [1]? That is the list where we discuss
the new addons and we can continue the conversation there.

I'll be the one in charge of preparing everything, anyway.

Thanks!

[1] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/dev-opennebula.org

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Thomas Alrin <alrin at megam.co.in> wrote:
> Dear all,
>     We are proposing Megam - Cloud orchestrator for OpenNebula. Megam
> leverages system configuration framework (Chef http://opscode.com) to
> implement an orchestration engine to launch multiple composite cloud
> application based on templates that are written using ruby code. The
> templates are versioned and can be adopted to every vDC in Opennebula.
>
> Our Roadmap.
>
> Opennebula offers basic Cloud management including an intuitive self-service
> interface. It is focused on the level of Infrastructure as a Service.
>
> Chef is DevOps software which can interface to OpenNebula and adds several
> features such as lifecycle management for virtual machine images and the
> possibility to deploy standardized middleware and applications. These
> standardized software components provide platform services to the
> application components built on top of them.
>
> Our proposal is to have Megam provide cloud orchestration for OpenNebula
> based on open standards like
> TOSCA(http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v1.0/os/TOSCA-v1.0-os.html).
> Megam already provides ability to launch app/services today.  The design
> specifics for TOSCA will be released shortly.
>
> As a first step we are building a  chef plugin to OpenNebula, which can
> stand up instances in OpenNebula using its templates.
>
> Using this knife plugin for OpenNebula, an user can do the following,
>
> * List the templates which are already created in OpenNebula.
>
> * List the VMs which are already created either in OpenNebula or from the
> knife plugin.
>
> * Create a VM by instantiating the OpenNebula template. Chef bootstraps the
> VM and applies a role.
>
> Anxious to hear the communities feedback. Feel free to reach out to us
> (alrin at megam.co.in)
>
> --
> With Warm Regards,
> Thomas Alrin,
> Infrastructure Engineer; Megam Systems;
> email: alrin at megam.co.in; cell: +91 9789345999
> twitter : @thomasalrin
>
>
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Javier Fontán Muiños
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