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        all,<br>
            We are proposing</span><span
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        Megam - Cloud orchestrator for OpenNebula</span><span
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        Megam leverages system configuration framework (Chef </span><a
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        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. </span></p>
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        Roadmap</span><span
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Opennebula</span><span
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        offers basic Cloud management including an intuitive
        self-service interface. It is focused on the level of
        Infrastructure as a Service.</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Chef</span><span
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        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.</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Our
        proposal is to have <b>Megam</b> provide cloud orchestration
        for OpenNebula based on open standards like TOSCA(</span><a
        href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v1.0/os/TOSCA-v1.0-os.html"
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v1.0/os/TOSCA-v1.0-os.html</span></a><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">).
        Megam already provides ability to launch app/services today.
         The design specifics for TOSCA will be released shortly. </span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As
        a first step we are building a  chef plugin to OpenNebula, which
        can stand up instances in OpenNebula using its templates. </span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Using
        this knife plugin for OpenNebula, an user can do the following,</span></p>
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        List the templates which are already created in OpenNebula.</span></p>
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        List the VMs which are already created either in OpenNebula or
        from the knife plugin.</span></p>
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        Create a VM by instantiating the OpenNebula template. Chef
        bootstraps the VM and applies a role.</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Anxious
        to hear the communities feedback. Feel free to reach out to us
        (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alrin@megam.co.in">alrin@megam.co.in</a>)</span></p>
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With Warm Regards,
Thomas Alrin,
Infrastructure Engineer; Megam Systems;
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alrin@megam.co.in">alrin@megam.co.in</a>; cell: +91 9789345999
twitter : @thomasalrin</pre>
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