[CentOS-devel] OpenNebula Variant and Cloud SIG proposals

Thu Jan 9 08:34:37 UTC 2014
Vincent Van der Kussen <vincent at vanderkussen.org>

> Apologies, I sent this to KB's direct mailbox earlier today and apparently
> I didn't send it to centos-devel. So I'm forwarding it now.
>
> Given that there are at least two other projects keen to make this happen,
> it would be great if the Cloud SIG could be a single multicloud target.
>
> --
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm Jaime Melis from the OpenNebula project [1]. We have been involved
> with
> CentOS for the past year making a stable Cloud Management Platform [2]. I
> would
> like to hereby propose a new CentOS variant, namely the OpenNebula
> variant.
>
> This variant would add three roles to the CentOS installation:
>
> * OpenNebula Frontend
> * OpenNebula Node KVM
> * OpenNebula Node Xen
>
> The work for the Frontend and Node KVM roles has been completed and is
> ready to
> be released. The Node Xen role is still in progress although close to
> being
> finished.
>
> This work should take place under the Cloud SIG umbrella, which right as
> of
> now
> doesn't exist, so I would like to also propose the creation of this group
> with
> the aim of making the major cloud platforms work wth Centos.
>
> Regards,
> Jaime
>
> [1] http://opennebula.org/
> [2] http://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/OpenNebula/QuickStart
>

Hi,

I would like to help on this one. I also think good Gluster integration
with Opennebula might be something to look at.

Regards,

-- 
Vincent Van der Kussen
@vincentvdk