[occi-wg] Opinion Poll: IaaS or PaaS ?

[Krishna Sankar (ksankar)]

On this rare occasion (;o)), I fully agree with Sam. The "I" in IaaS
includes compute, storage and network resources and the "drivers"
thereof - which means domain managers with appropriate interface to
provision, configure, monitor and meter them ...

 

Cheers

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From: occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf
Of Sam Johnston
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 6:45 AM
To: Gary Mazz
Cc: occi-wg at ogf.org
Subject: Re: [occi-wg] Opinion Poll: IaaS or PaaS ?

 

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Gary Mazz <garymazzaferro at gmail.com>
wrote:

	The question is: " Do operating systems belong in IaaS or PaaS.
"


Definitely IaaS. When you start talking about MAC addresses, VLAN IDs,
etc. you're venturing well into the underlying hardware fabric which is
ultimately someone else's problem - I don't see any of these things
appearing in current IaaS APIs[1].

Basically think of infrastructure services as everything up to the
operating system interface (be that an API, CLI or a GUI).

Platform services (PaaS) on the other hand include [most of] the
solution stack... any app servers, databases, script/bytecode
interpreters, etc. - think LAMP. You can just take your app and use it
(in many was like it were a virtual machine - which is why the next step
for us will be a small one).

Software services (SaaS) then add the application itself.

OCCI is most definitely IaaS.

Sam

1. That is not to say they're not important - they are, particularly for
"I can't believe it's not cloud" moreso than public cloud, but if they
appear in OCCI they'll be optional.

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