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BLAZAR

Project overview and update

MASAHITO MUROI IRC: MASAHITO NTT

05.08.2017

PIERRE RITEAU IRC: PRITEAU UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO HIROAKI KOBAYASHI IRC: HIRO-KOBOAYASHI NTT

What does Blazar do?

• Reservation service
• The project offers users a reservation for their future usage of cloud
• resources. The reservation ensures users can deploy as many

resources on the cloud as they have reserved.

• Founded during the Icehouse release of OpenStack

○contributions from Bull, Inria, Mirantis, Intel… ○but inactive between Kilo and Newton

• Revived following the Barcelona Summit
• 10 contributors for latest release
• Not yet in the Big Tent

Project background

• Chameleon project (http://www.chameleoncloud.org)

○Large-scale testbed for computer science research ○Blazar guarantees resource availability for experiments

• OPNFV Promise project (https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/promise/Promise)

○Resource reservation and management project for quality of network services ○Blazar guarantees resource availability for VNF deployments

Use cases

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HOST RESERVATION

• Blazar users can reserve exclusive access to physical hosts
• Instances launched on reserved hosts via hints provided to a Nova scheduler filter
• Blazar manages a Nova host aggregate for each reservation

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FOLLOWING UP-TO-DATE OPENSTACK RELEASE

• Switch from oslo-incubator to oslo libraries
• Fix unit tests and Tempest tests
• https://launchpad.net/blazar/0.x.0/0.2.0

New features & enhancements in Ocata

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FIRST STEPS

• Bootstrap the revival community with interested parties in Barcelona
• Restart weekly IRC meetings
• Fix the gate
• Old oslo-incubator code referred to ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3
• Default gate job environment moved to ubuntu-xenial
• SSLv3 was disabled in OpenSSL on Ubuntu due to POODLE
• Get DevStack to install Blazar correctly
• DevStack changes regularly, so old plugins can rely on deleted environment variables
• Removed nova master tarball from test-requirements.txt which clashed with upper constraints

How we revived Blazar (1/2)

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ADAPT TO CURRENT OPENSTACK PATTERNS

• Switch to oslo libraries
• Remove libraries not supported by global requirements, enable project in OpenStack Proposal Bot
• Use latest test environments (Ubuntu Xenial)
• Use new tempest plugin style
• Add release notes managed with reno

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FOCUS ON WHAT WORKS

• Deprecated instance reservation for the Ocata release

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STILL TO DO…

• Add Python 3 support and create OpenStackClient plugin
• Support new API endpoint style (e.g. /identity) and have our own (/reservation?)

How we revived Blazar (2/2)

New features & enhancements for Pike

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INSTANCE RESERVATION

• Reserve compute resources for launching instances
• A flavor of instance, the number of instances and a time frame
• https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blazar/+spec/new-instance-reservation

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GUI

• Horizon plugin for Blazar
• https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blazar/+spec/climate-dashboard

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IMPROVE FLEXIBILITY OF RESERVATION

• Support update and early termination of a reservation
• https://launchpad.net/blazar/+milestone/0.3.0

Join us to improve new features!

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NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS ARE UNDER DISCUSSION

• Weekly meeting: Tuesday 9:00 (UTC) at #openstack-meeting-alt
• https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Blazar
• Team meetings and Forums in Boston:
• Blazar team meeting (Mon 1:00pm-4:00pm @Hynes MR 109)
• Forum: Advanced instance scheduling (Wed 9:50am-10:30am @Hynes MR 103)
• Collaboration of OpenStack Blazar and OPNFV Promise for Meeting NFV

Resource Management Requirements (Wed 11:00am-11:40am @Hynes Ballroom C)

• Blazar & Nova PlacementAPI meeting (Thu 9:00am-10:00am @Hynes MR 109)
• IRC channel: #openstack-blazar

SCALABILITY RESILIENCY MANAGEABILITY MODULARITY INTEROPERABILITY SECURITY USER EXPERIENCE

Pike release themes for Blazar

MAJOR FOCUS NO INFO NO INFO NO INFO NO INFO MAJOR FOCUS NOT A FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS NO INFO MINOR FOCUS NO INFO MAJOR FOCUS

Possible features & enhancements for Queens

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IMPROVE THE INSTANCE RESERVATION

• Extends a capability of the new instance reservation
• https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blazar/+spec/new-instance-reservation

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OPERATOR-FRIENDLY API AND A CLIENT (CLI/GUI)

• Update API and a client for more intuitive operations

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RESOURCE MONITORING

• Monitor states of reserved resources
• https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blazar/+spec/resource-monitoring

SCALABILITY RESILIENCY MANAGEABILITY MODULARITY INTEROPERABILITY SECURITY USER EXPERIENCE

Queens release themes for Blazar

MAJOR FOCUS NO INFO NOT A FOCUS NO INFO NO INFO NO INFO MINOR FOCUS NOT A FOCUS MAJOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS NOT A FOCUS MAJOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS NO INFO MAJOR FOCUS

SCALABILITY RESILIENCY MANAGEABILITY MODULARITY INTEROPERABILITY SECURITY USER EXPERIENCE

Rocky release themes for Blazar

MAJOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS NO INFO NOT A FOCUS NO INFO NO INFO NO INFO MAJOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MINOR FOCUS MAJOR FOCUS

We need your help!

QUESTION

• What are your use cases for "reservations"?
• What would you like to reserve?
• When would like to reserve it?

DEVELOPER REQUEST

• Need support for testing, gate job, tempest, Python 3, etc.
• Better integration with OpenStack ecosystem: OpenStackClient, Heat, etc.
• New resource plugins: volume, network, etc.

@OpenStack

THANKS.

Questions?

• penstack
• penstack

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