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Hello All,
I have been working on OpenStack for the past year, currently the PTL of two
projects part of the big-tent: Dragonflow and Kuryr and contributing to OVN and
to Neutron core.
The past year is by no doubt the best year of my career, working with the community
and doing so openly for 100% of my time has been a great experience.
I fell in love with the OpenStack way and i keep trying to promote open communities by being
a speaker at Numerous summits, arranging meetups, writing a blog about the
projects and overall trying to raise awareness for working open source both internally
at my organization and externally.
I would love to contribute and be part of the TC to share my vision for the road ahead
with the rest of the TC members and help drive it together with all the
projects that make OpenStack what it is.
The following points describe my high level vision and what i will pursue in the next
year:
1) Containers and OpenStack - i think this intersection is a crucial part for the
future of OpenStack, more and more workloads are turning into containers and this
in my view will only increase.
enabling containers engines and OpenStack to work together will be crucial for
future deployments, this is one of the reason project Kuryr was started and its my
goal to make sure we align a mixed OpenStack containers strategy for all major
projects and future projects.
I am already trying to arrange a containers session at the Ops summit in Austin
in order to better understand these environments and their challenges and i
believe OpenStack flexibility can show real value to these environments.
2) Big-Tent, Users/Operators - I am all in favor of removing barriers for innovation
and being more on the allowing side then dismissing, but i feel the picture of
OpenStack as a whole for users and operators is not clear enough.
Big number of projects, big number of configuration options and a very hard time
deploying OpenStack.
Grouping projects and interests together and delegating responsibility is
important, Neutron big-stadium is a good initiative but it didn't work as planned
and i hope to tackle this area both for the project teams but even more importantly for
the users and deployers, we need to define quality better and we need to present
a better overall picture of what OpenStack is and how its best and simplest deployed.
3) Hybrid Cloud - This is an area OpenStack can show alot of value, it spans across many
areas like networking, storage, compute, backup and disaster recovery, orchestration
and more.
I hope to try and work with the TC members and the project teams to raise
awareness for hybrid and multi site enablement in all areas of OpenStack, rather its
federation or centralized orchestration we need to solve use cases that are becoming
more and more relevant.
4) Application in the middle - i think its important to understand our users use cases
and to me, OpenStack users are also the applications that run on top of it.
Bridging the gap between the infrastructure and the application needs helps prioritize
and deliver better features for our projects and i hope to help in that direction.
I plan to work with project teams to raise awareness for the above points
i dont believe in intervention, i think the TC role is to be a guiding and helping body that
represent the community voice rather then an enforcer and i plan to keep doing
things this way.
Thanks
Gal.