Great doc Sam !!! -gary Sam Johnston wrote:

Morning all,

I've been doing some more work on the draft over the weekend and today as I hope to have it in good condition in time for the various cloud interop events next week. It's finally starting to take shape now that extensions (e.g. state machines), attributes and registries (e.g. HTTP status codes) have been added, even if they're a long way from finished.

The OCCI Core profile is generic and can be used with any resource, while OCCI Infrastructure defines compute, network and storage nouns (with attributes that are designed to be both extensible and trivially mapped to txt, json and xml formats) as well as extensions for relevant functionality like state machines.

Anyway the GridForge subversion repository just blew up and my local version doesn't build any more so given it's after 4am already I'm going to call it a day and send what I have so far by mail (attached). The master's DocBook v5 but there's HTML, XML-FO and PDF renderings too... I'll fix the subversion repository tomorrow so others can get in on the action.

If you do plan to contribute though, please bear in mind that I am making personal contributions available under CC-BY-SA in addition to the standard OGF terms which I consider far too restrictive. I'd very much rather other editors follow my example so as the spec is not inextricably bound to any single organisation, as is customary for other cloud APIs (e.g. GoGrid, Sun Cloud API).

Thanks,

Sam

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OGF OCCI-WG Deliverables

OCCI-WG

May 2009

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OCCI Core

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Introduction

The Open Cloud Computing Interface is an open community consensus API, initially targeting cloud infrastructure services or "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)". A "Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA)", it is as close as possible to the underlying HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), deviating only where absolutely necessary. Each resource (identified by a canonical URL) can have multiple representations which may or may not be hypertext (e.g. HTML). Metadata including associations between resources is exposed via HTTP headers (e.g. the Link: header), except in the case of collections where Atom is used as the meta-model.

Basics

URL Namespace

A single URL entry point (and optionally, suitable credentials for HTTP based authentication schemes) is all a client requires. Each resource type or "noun" (e.g. compute, network, storage) is visible as a collection at the root level (e.g. http://example.com/compute)/Perhaps we should consider allowing them anywhere/everywhere as is the case today/ and the resources themselves appear under these collections (e.g. http://example.com/compute/123). Implementors should also expose an AtomPub service document at the root to enable enumeration of resource types, supported formats and categories.

Nouns, Verbs and Attributes

Interfaces expose "nouns" which have "attributes" and on which "verbs" can be performed. The attributes are exposed as key-value pairs and appropriate verbs as links, following HATEOAS principles.

CRUD Operations

Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations map to the POST, GET, PUT and DELETE HTTP verbs respectively. HEAD and OPTIONS verbs may be used to retrieve metadata and valid operations without the entity body to improve performance. Additionally, all existing HTTP functionality is available for caching, proxying, gatewaying and other advanced functionality.

POST (Create)

POSTing a representation (e.g. OVF) to a collection (e.g. /compute) will result in a new resource being created (e.g. /compute/123) and returned in the Location: header. POST is also used with HTML form data to trigger verbs (e.g. restart)

GET (Retrieve)

GETting a resource (e.g. /compute/123) will return a representation of that resource in the most appropriate supported format specified by the client in the Accept header. Otherwise "406 Not Acceptable" will be returned.

PUT (Update)

PUTting a representation (e.g. OVF) to a URL (e.g. /compute/123) will result in the resource being created or updated. The URL is known or selected by the client (in which case UUIDs should be used), in contrast to POSTs where the URL is selected by the server.

DELETE (Delete)

DELETE results in the deletion of the resource (and everything "under" it, as appropriate).

Web Linking

Linked cloud resources extend the World Wide Web (WWW) of linked hypertext (e.g. HTML) documents, only the links themselves are expressed out-of-band rather than inline.

Collections

Operations that return multiple resources (e.g. categories, searches) are rendered as an Atom feed with an Atom entry per resource. Metadata that would normally appear in the HTTP headers appears in standard Atom elements with the entity-body itself being passed by reference or by value in the Atom content element.

Versioning

Clients and servers should expose the protocol version (e.g. OCCI/1.0) via the User-Agent and Server HTTP headers respectively. Should second or subsequent versions of the descriptor format be required the version will be added to the Internet media type (e.g. application/occi2+xml).

References

The following standards are referenced by this implementation.

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RFC 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

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RFC 4287 The Atom Syndication Format

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RFC 5023 The Atom Publishing Protocol

Additionally RFC 2119 Requirement Levels are used throughout.

OCCI Infrastructure

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OCCI Infrastructure defines three nouns and various extensions relating to management of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS).

Nouns

Cloud infrastructure can be modeled using three primary nouns: compute, network and storage.

Compute

A compute resource is capable of conducting computations (e.g. a virtual machine).

*Table 1. Compute Attributes*

Attribute Type Description occi.compute.arch Enum (x86, x64) CPU Architecture (e.g. x64) occi.compute.cores Integer Number of CPU cores (e.g. 1, 2) occi.compute.memory Float (2^20 bytes) RAM in megabytes (e.g. 2048) occi.compute.speed Float (10^9 Hertz) Clock speed in gigahertz (e.g. 2.4)

Network

A network resource is capable of transferring data (e.g. a virtual network or VLAN).

*Table 2. Network Attributes*

Attribute Type Description occi.network.vlan-id Integer (0..4095) 802.1q VLAN ID (e.g. 4095) occi.network.vlan-tag Token Tag based VLANs (e.g. external-dmz) occi.network.ipv4[].gateway IPv4 Address IPv4 gateway address (e.g. 192.168.0.1) occi.network.ipv4[].netmask IPv4 Address IPv4 netmask address (e.g. 255.255.255.0) occi.network.ipv4[].network IPv4 Address IPv4 network address (e.g. 192.168.0.0) occi.network.ipv4[].cidr Integer (0..32) Netmask in CIDR notation (e.g. 24)

Storage

A storage resource is capable of mass storage of data (e.g. a virtual hard drive).

*Table 3. Storage Attributes*

Attribute Type Description occi.storage.persistence Enum (transient, persistent, reliable) Qualitative device persistence (e.g. transient) occi.storage.size Integer (10^9 bytes) Drive size in gigabytes (e.g. 40)

Extensions

Various extensions provide for more advanced management functionality such as billing, monitoring and reporting.

State machine (state)

The state machine extension allows for the modeling of arbitrarily complex state machines and associated transitions (e.g. start, stop, restart).

OCCI Registries

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*Table 1. HTTP Status Codes*

Code Description Example 200 OK Request completed successfully Response is returned 201 Created Request completed successfully, resource was created Pointer to new resource returned 202 Accepted Request accepted, processing not completed Workload starting but not yet active 301 Moved Permanently Resource has been assigned a new permanent URI Workload migrated to another installation 302 Found Resource resides temporarily under a different URI Alias pointing to UUID can be updated 304 Not Modified Conditional GET on resource that is unchanged Client already has the latest version of the resource 400 Bad Request Request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax Client sent a representation that was unable to be understood 401 Unauthorized The request requires user authentication Client must retry with authentication 402 Payment Required The server has refused to fulfill the request Credit limit exceeded 403 Forbidden The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it Attempt to access resource without permission 404 Not Found The server has not found the resource Feed or entry unknown 405 Method Not Allowed The method specified is not allowed for the resource Attempt to delete an immutable resource 406 Not Acceptable The resource is not capable of requested content characteristics Unsupported output format requested 409 Conflict Request is in conflict with the current state of the resource Resource updated by a third-party in the interim 410 Gone Resource is gone, no forwarding address Resource was deleted 500 Internal Server Error Server encountered an unexpected condition An unknown failure has occurred (e.g. out of memory) 501 Not Implemented Functionality required to fulfill request is not implemented A missing extension was called 502 Bad Gateway An invalid response was received from an upstream server The gateway received a malformed response from a node 503 Service Unavailable Server is temporarily unable to handle the request Server may be overloaded or down for maintenance 504 Gateway Timeout No response was received from an upstream server The gateway did not receive a response within the timeout period

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Question about the Network Attributes table: occi.network.ipv4[].gateway Does the [] represent array indexation? If so, are the indexes designated by the occi.network.vlan-id ? .. Shlomo