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Posts tagged Cloud_API

Calling out to Nova
09 Jul 2013 Whilst playing around with some ideas for an OpenStack management service I need to figure out how to call the Nova service to manage Flavors, i.e. create and delete Flavors as well as listing them. From looking around a... (...more)



Quantum API support for the ruby-openstack rubygem
21 Mar 2013 As part of work to include Network related resource management the Deltacloud API I added support for the OpenStack Quantum API to the ruby-openstack rubygem. This code will be part of the ... (...more)



Deltacloud Networks API - a work in progress
20 Mar 2013 The Deltacloud API is missing the management of network resources. Many IaaS APIs still don’t have a notion of ‘network’ resource management whilst for others the Network API is relatively new. H... (...more)



Deltacloud CIMI API - CIMI Volumes, Machines and the MachineVolume collection
28 Nov 2012 In case you didnt know, Deltacloud implements the DMTF Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface API (CIMI). This means that you can ‘talk’ CIMI to any of the clo... (...more)



Volumes Support in the Deltacloud Openstack Driver
19 Nov 2012 Adding a new feature to a deltacloud driver means first checking that this feature is supported in the cloud provider client being used by that driver. For the Deltacloud Openstack driver, ... (...more)



Segmenting Huge Blobs - Part II
24 Oct 2012 I implemented the ‘multipart’/’segmented blob’ upload as described in my previous post. This ‘segmented blob’ API is not yet an official part of the Deltacloud API as it still needs to be discussed/improved/p... (...more)



Segmenting Huge Blobs
08 Oct 2012 Apart from the compute infrastructure abstractions, Deltacloud has support for blob storage via the 'buckets' collection. Right now you can create a 'blob' via a HTTP PUT on the 'bucket' in which you want the blob to b... (...more)



An updated ruby-openstack rubygem
03 Aug 2012 This post is so long overdue that I’ve forgotten much of the details involved. In short, there’s a new rubygem in town for talking to Openstack. Well - ‘new’ is definitely an exaggeration; the ruby-openstac... (...more)



CIMI Networking in Deltacloud - A Work in Progress
06 Apr 2012 I’m currently implementing the CIMI Network entities for Deltacloud - this post introduces these and shows some examples of how a client can use Deltacloud to interact with a CIMI server, u... (...more)



A look at networking in CIMI and Openstack
05 Mar 2012 First off I should note that the following is not really a head-to-head comparison; that wouldn’t be fair. CIMI is still a work in progress - current version at time of writing is 1.0.0c. Similarly... (...more)



Using the openstack-compute rubygem with HP Cloud Services
16 Feb 2012 So the folks at HP are running a private beta of their HP Cloud Services. They were kind enough to give me access to their beta program and it was perfect timing as I’m trying to up... (...more)