May 2018 Blazar Project Update Open Stack Summit

May 2018 Blazar Project Update, Open. Stack Summit Vancouver Masahito Muroi, IRC: masahito, muroi. masahito@lab. ntt. co. jp

What is Blazar? Mission: To provide resource reservations in Open. Stack clouds for different resource types, both virtual (instances, volumes, etc) and physical (hosts, storage, etc). The functions: • Manage cloud resources not only right now, but also in the future • Enable cloud users to provision dedicated resources for a certain amount of time The Backgrounds: • High Performance Computing • Telecom NFV

Open. Stack Queens Features • Key features • Resource Monitoring • State machine for Leases, Reservations and Events • Other worthy developments • Support all operation in Horizon • Support python 3

Open. Stack Rocky Improve usability and Support other resources • User or Operators needs and feedbacks • Baremetal (Ironic) and network reservation supports • More detailed reservation requests • Key features • Ironic support • AZ aware reservations for the host and instance reservation • Reservation Candidate API • Resource Usage API and dashboard

Beyond Rocky Stein and beyond • Network resource reservation (started from Rocky cycle) • Placement. API support (started from Rocky cycle)

Cross-Project Work • Blazar resource support in Heat project • Reservation support in Tacker project • Pre-emptive instance with Scientific SIG

How to give feedback • Send a mail to openstack-dev mailing list with [Blazar] prefix • Join the IRC weekly meeting on #openstack-meeting-alt at 9: 00 am UTC Tuesday • Join the IRC #openstack-blazar

How to contribute • Bugs prioritized “wishlist” tagged “low-hanging-fruit” • https: //bugs. Launchpad. net/blazar • Mainly documentation bugs or insufficient tests • Join the weekly meeting and check the trend in the team • Ask which bug is easy to contribute to active members

Q&A Thank you! openstack @Open. Stack openstack Open. Stack. Foundation