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Fellow Stackers,
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I just served a term as Manila PTL for Rocky and am writing to say
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that if you choose me I'd like to also take on that role for the
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Stein release cycle.
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I think I've learned the mechanics now and can focus more energy on
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priorities.
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Today manila itself is pretty solid. It doesn't need lots of new
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features. Back end vendors always want to expose new bells and whistles,
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and that's fine if they help with the review load and contribute to the
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community. Reciprocity makes the world go around.
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But I see the adoption curve for manila just now ramping up and my own
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focus will be to enable that by working harden manila, and make it
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easier to use, both within and outside of openstack itself.
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Manila offers self-service file-shares -- RWX, random access storage
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-- and abstracts over a variety of file-systems and sharing protocols.
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Manila doesn't care whether the consumers of the file systems live
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within openstack, it's just a matter of network reachability and the
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access rights that manila manages.
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Besides being able to run as one part of a full openstack deployment,
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manila can run on its own, with keystone to enable multi-tenancy, or
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completely standalone.
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So I see manila as a true Open Infrastructure project. It can turn a
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rack of unconfigured equipment into self-service shared file systems
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without limiting itself to the (very important) Virtual Private Server
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use case [1].
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I will, accordingly, work to position manila as *the* open source
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solution for deploying RWX random access storage across data centers
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and across clouds. To that end we need to:
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* get manila into generalized cloud providers like CSI [2]
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* get manila into the openstack sdk and openstack client
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* get more of the almost thirty manila back ends exposed in
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production-quality deployment tools like tripleo, kolla-*,
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and juju.
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* continue to fix bugs, improve our CI, run more stuff in gate with
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python 3
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These are the things that will drive me if you choose me as manila PTL.
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Thanks for listening,
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-- Tom Barron (tbarron)
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[1] https://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2018/07/17#openstack-layer-model-limitations
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[2] https://github.com/container-storage-interface/spec/blob/master/spec.md
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