[occi-wg] OCCI 1.1 for OpenNebula

[Sill, Alan]

Hi Florian,

We will probably want access to a server for SAJACC tests, if that can be arranged. What sort of access controls can we use?  (I have a VOMS service we can use if that would be helpful.)

Alan



On May 14, 2011, at 2:20 PM, "florian.feldhaus at tu-dortmund.de" <florian.feldhaus at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just set up a server with our OCCI implementation using the dummy
> backend. Feel free to try it at
> http://ls22.itmc.tu-dortmund.de:4567/
> 
> 
> If you like to use a demo server using the OpenNebula backend, please
> contact me and I will configure access for you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Florian
> 
> Am 13.05.11 18:42 schrieb "Feldhaus, Florian" unter
> <florian.feldhaus at tu-dortmund.de>:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> as a followup to the announcement, I'd like to give some details and like
>> to announce a second (alpha) release I just uploaded.
>> 
>> Our OCCI Implementation is written in Ruby and we tried to make it
>> independent from the backend. There currently are two backends
>> implemented. Once a very simple Dummy Backend, which allows testing of the
>> OCCI compliance. The other backend is interfacing between the OCCI server
>> and OpenNebula using the OpenNebula Client API.
>> 
>> As far as we understood the OCCI specification, our implementation is
>> compliant with the OCCI Core and OCCI HTTP Rendering documents and it
>> implements all required resources from OCCI Infrastructure and most of the
>> Mixins (e.g. the Infrastructure templates are not yet implemented). If
>> testing the implementation, please consider my comments regarding the
>> specification which I summed up in my mail "Cloud Plugfest summary".
>> 
>> The OpenNebula backend implements a subset of the features offered by our
>> implementation. Currently the following is working:
>> - GET is working for entities and kinds/mixins. The OCCI Server does not
>> yet check for updates of status or parameters in OpenNebula.
>> - POST is working for creation of entities. Actions are not yet supported,
>> but will be soon - after some more testing.
>> - PUT is not yet tested with the backend
>> - DELETE is working
>> 
>> During startup, all resources known to OpenNebula are initialized by the
>> OCCI server and can be used through OCCI requests. Images can be uploaded
>> during creation of OCCI Storage resources. OpenNebula specific features
>> which could not be mapped to OCCI parameters were implemented as
>> OpenNebula specific Mixins.
>> 
>> During the implementation we had a lot of problems mapping the OCCI
>> Infrastructure model to the OpenNebula model. From our point of view it
>> would be best to specify only a very small set of mandatory parameters for
>> the Infrastructure resources and then use a model like CIM for more
>> complex requests. The OCCI Infrastructure model seems to be the central
>> point for interoperability and thus a lot of experience is required to
>> find a suitable "best practise". Are there any documents / discussions I
>> can read to get more information on the decision / next steps for the
>> Infrastructure model? I would be glad to participate in finding best
>> practices for interoperability.
>> 
>> I will probably attend OGF 32, who else does?
>> 
>> Also there was an announcement at the end of the last SNIA plugfest that
>> another plugfest should take place just before OGF 32. If so, I would also
>> very much like to attend in person. Does anyone have more information on
>> an upcoming plugfest?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Florian
>> 
>> Am 12.05.11 11:40 schrieb "Daniel Molina" unter <dmolina at opennebula.org>:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> The OpenNebula Team is happy to announce a new contribution to the
>>> ecosystem, OCCI 1.1 for OpenNebula.
>>> For more information, please visit: http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=1596
>>> 
>>> We would like to thank Florian Feldhaus and Piotr Kasprzak for this
>>> new component.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Daniel Molina, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher
>>> Major Contributor
>>> OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
>>> www.OpenNebula.org | dmolina at opennebula.org
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