July 2009 - occi-wg - lists.ogf.org

Offtopic: Rackspace open-sources its cloud interface
by Thijs Metsch 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hi, Apparently Rackspace is doing open -source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-10293785-61.html?tag=mncol;posts Cheers, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Tel: +49 (0)941 3075-122 (x60122) http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds Software Engineer Grid Computing Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Str. 7 mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com D-93049 Regensburg http://www.sun.com

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Follow-up on today's concall regarding requirements.
by Thijs Metsch 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, A new version of the usecases and requirements document is available in gridforge: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.occi-wg/docman.… Next to some small changes to the priorities of some requirements we came up with the following issues: * Question: Should we define a syntax for the attributes defined by requirements A.1.1 A.1.2 and A.1.3.? * Question regarding requirement A.2.5.: What does poll mean in in this manner? * Storage: Should we add a requirement which states that it should be possible to use SNIA and OCCI side-by-side (and so to say compatible?). What are the implications of this for OCCI and SNIA? * Backup: The requirements B.4.1 and B.4.2. seem to be a little defined to broad. Should we add more detail? Postpone this issue? I would love to see your comments on those 4 topics. All the best, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Tel: +49 (0)941 3075-122 (x60122) http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds Software Engineer Grid Computing Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Str. 7 mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com D-93049 Regensburg http://www.sun.com

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Cloud Computing Use Cases - Final Version
by Sam Johnston 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Evening all, As many of you are no doubt aware we have just released the final version of the Cloud Computing Use Cases document at http://tinyurl.com/clouduc This will serve as another useful input for OCCI, identifying use cases via crowdsourcing that we may not have previously considered. Thanks to everyone involved in the process (I know at least a few of you are also on this list). Feedback to the cloud-computing-use-cases<http://groups.google.com/group/cloud-computing-use-cases/>Google Group please. Have yourselves a good weekend, Sam

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OCCI and the 2009 Amazon Web Services Survey
by Sam Johnston 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Afternoon all, Here's your chance to help OCCI, improve Amazon Web Services and possibly win a $500 or $100 Amazon gift card: the 2009 Amazon Web Services Survey<http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/07/24/aws-survey/> : Question 5 asks "*Please list the top 3 new features that AWS can deliver that will help improve your experience with AWS*". This is a great opportunity to put ourselves on their radar by requesting support for OCCI (see attached). Cheers, Sam

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Anymore use cases which nede to be documented
by Thijs Metsch 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi, Today I moved all the use cases we had in the wiki to the document: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.occi-wg/docman.… (Except the financial grid use case...) Those descriptions still need be refined in the wording and references to the sources need to be added - but this is just the start :-) The question is now: are there anymore use cases which need to be added? Any which need to be refined etc? Please reply until Tuesday next week... All the best, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Tel: +49 (0)941 3075-122 (x60122) http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds Software Engineer Grid Computing Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Str. 7 mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com D-93049 Regensburg http://www.sun.com

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Reminder: weekly OCCI concall tomorrow - 4pm CET!
by Thijs Metsch 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi, Tomorrow is again time for our concall. For the telco bridge data and the time in your timezone have a look here: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Teleconferen… The agenda is set to: 1. Requirements priorities walkthrough 2. Status of the draft specification Feel free to add more in the Wiki: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Concall20090… Please join the concall since we are going to discuss the priorities of all the requirements we gathered. Remember what Churchill once said: It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. All the best & hope to speak to you tomorrow, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Tel: +49 (0)941 3075-122 (x60122) http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds Software Engineer Grid Computing Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Str. 7 mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com D-93049 Regensburg http://www.sun.com

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by Thijs Metsch 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi, I just upload a new draft version of the use case and requirements document. I added the latest use case and inserted the requirements tables: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.occi-wg/docman.… The IMPORTANT part comes now :-) Please review the tables especially with regards to the priorities! I added the priorities I thought might fit - but they need to be refined. During our next concall we are going through all the entries in the table and set the priorities right All the best, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Tel: +49 (0)941 3075-122 (x60122) http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds Software Engineer Grid Computing Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Str. 7 mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com D-93049 Regensburg http://www.sun.com

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jclouds and occi support
by Adrian Cole 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Hi, Team. In case you've forgotten, jclouds is an open source java client for IaaS and PaaS resources. We've recently implemented rackspace cloud servers support<http://anyweight.blogspot.com/2009/07/sneak-peak-jclouds-and-rackspace.html>. The process was quite straightforward and only took a week to code and test their REST api. This was our first non-storage initiative. I'd like the next to be OCCI support. Does anyone have time to touch up the appspot implementation? Once this is up-to-date with the spec-in-progress, I can put some time into jclouds support of this. Cheers, -Adrian jclouds <http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/>

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Potential libcloud / OCCI collaboration
by Sam Johnston 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Afternoon Alex et al, I write to you as the secretary of the Open Grid Forum (OGF)'s Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group. You can find out more about us at http://www.occi-wg.org/ but our aim in a nutshell is to create a truly open standard API for cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), with a final release due in October. I joined the OCCI-WG back in March after running into difficulties making multiple cloud APIs work together due to impedance mismatches between them, and would very much like to see a successful API result such that adapters are eventually not necessary. If libcloud were to support OCCI then not only would it gain access to anyone who implements it, but eventually it could become a primary programmatic inteface for our RESTful API. I see this as a great opportunity for us to collaborate given we are working towards a common goal from different angles. Anyway I've joined this group and will contribute when I can. I encourage you also to join the OCCI working group (copied) and follow our progress. Kind regards, Sam

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Fwd: libcloud: a unified (python) interface to the cloud
by Sam Johnston 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

FYI, this is interesting stuff. Sam ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Polvi <alex(a)polvi.net> Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:32 PM Subject: libcloud: a unified (python) interface to the cloud Hello, I hope this finds you well! I wanted to share a project that I have been working on called libcloud: http://libcloud.org/ It creates a standard *client* library, written in pure python, for working with a variety of clouds. The project is still young, but if you are interested in getting on the leading edge of some cloud portability hacking, now is your chance! Site: http://libcloud.org/ Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/libcloud Code: http://github.com/cloudkick/libcloud Thanks, -Alex -- twitter.com/polvi

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