Introducing pkgcloud
OpenStack SDK for node.js
Ken Perkins | Rackspace | @kenperkins
Phani Raj | HP Cloud | @phanirajuyn
node.js
Platform built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript runtime.
...uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient...
node strengths
Asynchronous workloads, coordination,
integrating multiple systems, provisioning.
node weaknesses
CPU intensive workloads, Maths, non-intuitive patterns
A look to the past
Created by nodejitsu December 2011
initially compute & storage on Rackspace.
Vision: support for multiple providers and a generalized interface.
pkgcloud <= v0.6
- Compute (Amazon, Rackspace, Azure, Joyent, limited Openstack)
- Storage (Amazon, Rackspace, Azure)
- Limited Database support (poorly defined)
Enter Rackspace
Committing to an existing multi-cloud library was better.
Examples: Apache jclouds, fog, and Apache Libcloud.
Enter HP
Originally offered hpcloud-js.
hpcloud-js is now deprecated in favor of pkgcloud
Stamp of Approval
pkgcloud endorsed on developer.openstack.org as the node.js SDK for openstack
pkgcloud today (v1.0.x)
OpenStack in pkgcloud
compute provider
- Server
- Flavor
- Image
Demo
storage provider
- Container
- File
Demo
practical examples
Demo
The Future?
Where does pkgcloud go from here?
- More providers (Google)
- Broader service support
- Modular architecture
- More comprehensive tests
- Logo, website?
Contributing!
Or we need your help...
#pkgcloud on Freenode IRC, github.com/pkgcloud/pkgcloud on Github
Not yet implmented
- Load Balancers
- Images
- Full Identity
- Telemetry
- Something you care about...