[jira] [Created] (LIBCLOUD-444) Support scaling APIs

["Brian Curtin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Brian Curtin created LIBCLOUD-444:
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             Summary: Support scaling APIs
                 Key: LIBCLOUD-444
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-444
             Project: Libcloud
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Core
            Reporter: Brian Curtin


I propose to kick off a new package in the libcloud namespace, e.g., libcloud.scaling, to support the various automatic scaling APIs that some providers are offering.

* Amazon has had Auto Scaling available for some time now.
* Rackspace released its Autoscale product to general availability today.
* Azure supports Autoscale via its Management API.
* I've found some Google documentation around autoscaling, but it seems more tied to AppEngine than GCE, so maybe not applicable here.

At least Amazon and Rackspace's offerings are built on or make use of their CloudWatch and Cloud Monitoring products, respectively, so we'd probably want to create a package, e.g., libcloud.monitoring, as well. Azure

I have to imagine the first step is getting to understand the various APIs and boiling down a common set of goals and functionality. Before going down that path, is there anything I should know?



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