Description
Reference for previous technical & architecture-related discussions can be found in the TSCG meetings at [1]. In particular the following items will be covered to shape year 2 vision of Stratuslab (bottom-up):
- Site Deployment v2.0
- Security (Access control, group and user management, Authn methods)
- Storage
- Scope & interface
- Persistent storage
- Volume management (snapshoting, hotplug) See [2] for a proposal
- Implementation
- Caching strategies (machines and disks)
- VLANs
- Monitoring
- Accounting
- Messaging
(* Appliance Repository - optional service?) - Cloud interfaces for a Site
- API (OCCI, CDMI...)
- Formates (XML, OVF, HTML5...)
- Federation of Sites
- Architectures for federation & cloud bursting
- Common services & Site Integration - e.g. Image management:
- MarketPlace
- Interoperability with community efforts (e.g. HEPix)
- Signing process (CLI, browser, etc)
- Management of base images (maintenance, upgrades, etc)
- Appliance Repositories
Other aspects:
* Machine and disk image interoperability and translation:
* Format (raw, VMWare, etc)
* Contextualisation (StratusLab, VMWare, EC2)
* Support to image creation
* Image format detection (STRATUSLAB-649
* Instance Snapshoting
* IP reservations
* User Support request tracking system
- VM instantiation performance issue with normal/large images
