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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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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://opscode.com</span></a><span
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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
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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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