Eucalyptus

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, graziano obertelli wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm part of the Eucalyptus team: we would love to see Eucalyptus in 
> Fedora Core. What can we do to help? We do already provide RPMs, albeit 
> not for Fedora Core yet, which I'm sure are not ready to be included in 
> any distribution, and we know of some of our users already using 
> Eucalyptus in Fedora Core. Do you think Eucalyptus will fit in your 
> cloud initiative?

Thanks for joining us, Graziano.  Good to see you.  :)

I'd say there are a couple of clear places where Eucalyptus and Fedora 
could help each other right now.

1. Get Eucalyptus packages into the main Fedora repos.  Mr. Miller, if you 
guys are using Eucalyptus at Hahvahd, maybe you could step right into this 
lurch and see if the extant Fedora packages can be cleaned up and slipped 
into Fedora in time for F13?  If not, is there anyone else out there who 
wants to step up?  You've got one of the founders of Eucalyptus coming to 
your home turf to ask for your help.  Does he need to ask twice?  :)

2. Build Eucalyptus drivers for Deltacloud.  The goal of the Deltacloud 
project is to unify, as much as possible, a set of open APIs for 
management of all cloud providers everywhere, everyplace, FOR ALL TIME. 
As libvirt is to Xen + kvm + qemu + etc., so we would like dcloud to be 
for EC2 + dreamhost + private clouds based on Eucalyptus + etc.  Which is, 
perhaps, a bit ambitious.  :)  Eucalyptus's participation in that vision 
would obviously be welcome.  There's a separate development list for that:

https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/deltacloud-devel

Now, I think that dcloud is still a few patches short of a release at this 
point, but soon we'll be getting dcloud into Fedora, and we're hoping to 
start to use dcloud to manage EC2 instances for use by various Fedora 
folks.

In particular, once Eucalyptus packages are in Fedora proper, I think a 
whole lot more avenues start to open up.

--g

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