[dev] OpenStack Heat and similar functionality for other providers

[Taras Shapovalov <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I was surprised to find out that creation of resources with a single
template like OpenStack Heat or AWS CloudFormation is not only unsupported
in libcloud, but I also did not find any discussions or maillist questions
about that. I was thinking of trying to implement the Heat support (at
least to start with it), but I feel like there is a fundamental obstacle
that I miss. Can someone please tell me what is a state of such
functionality in libcloud or point me to an already existent discussion?

Best regards,

Taras

Re: [dev] OpenStack Heat and similar functionality for other providers

[Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org>]

I believe there were some discussions in the past, but nothing materialized
out of it.

Such functionality would of course be welcome in Libcloud.

It's worth noting that implementing a new API in Libcloud requires
implementing drivers for at least 3 different providers / implementations.

This way it's less likely for the standard API to be biased against a
single provider / implementation.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 4:30 PM Taras Shapovalov <sh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was surprised to find out that creation of resources with a single
> template like OpenStack Heat or AWS CloudFormation is not only unsupported
> in libcloud, but I also did not find any discussions or maillist questions
> about that. I was thinking of trying to implement the Heat support (at
> least to start with it), but I feel like there is a fundamental obstacle
> that I miss. Can someone please tell me what is a state of such
> functionality in libcloud or point me to an already existent discussion?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Taras
>