Magnum - OpenStack Containers Service

Addition of the Magnum Project - a collaboration of 24 engineers
from 13 affiliations to bring containers to Openstack as a first
class resource. We just concluded our Midcycle meetup.

Magnum builds on Heat to produce Nova instances on which to run
application containers. It is licensed under Apache 2.0, and all
contributors have signed an OpenStack CLA.

All library dependencies allow for unrestricted distribution and
deployment. Our PTL is chosen by our contributors, and holds
weekly IRC meetings in #openstack-meeting-alt and are logged using
Meetbot. We are also available in #openstack-containers to for
daily discussion and as a way for users to converse with our
developers openly.

All Magnum source code is posted to Gerrit, and reviewed. We allow
code merge after two +2 votes. Our code is automatically unit
tested by the OpenStack CI infrastructure. Our PTL serves as a
contact for cross-project teams in OpenStack.

We make extensive use of existing software, and have not
deliberately reproduced functionality that already exists in other
ecosystem projects. Magnum doesn't compete with Swarm, Docker, or
Kubernetes, but instead offers a user experience that integrates
those systems for use with OpenStack. We are open to integrating
best-of-breed technologies that help OpenStack operators offer
application containers to their cloud users.

We have implemented Magnum using the oslo common libraries and
the Pecan+WSME WSGI framework. Magnum completely conforms to the
OpenStack development style.

Project direction has been publically discussed at the Oregon
Nova Midcycle, the Paris OpenStack Design Summit, and in March
2015 at the Magnum Midcycle in San Francisco.

We use the openstack-dev ML for project discussion and do not use
any other mailing lists.

Magnum is compatible with OpenStack APIs, and uses Keystone
middleware to integrate with OpenStack Identity. All per-tenant
Magnum infrastructure is deployed using OpenStack Orchestration
using HOT files.

There are numerous active contributors from several affiliations
who have allocated full-time engineers to contribute to Magnum.

Magnum is different from Nova, because it provides a purpose built
API to manage application containers, which have a distinctly
different lifecycle and operations than Nova (machine) Instances.

Magnum is also different from Docker and Kubernetes, by offering
an asynchronous REST API that's compatible with Keystone, and a
complete multi-tenancy implementation. It does not perform
orchestration internally, and instead relies on OpenStack
Orchestration.

Change-Id: I1880a7310876c54bd5bd4bc16c6c5132c6ecb706

reference/projects.yaml

@@ -474,6 +474,17 @@ Designate:
     - repo: openstack/designate-specs
     - repo: openstack/python-designateclient
 
+Magnum:
+  ptl: Adrian Otto (aotto)
+  service: Containers Service
+  mission: >
+    To provide a set of services for management of application containers
+    in a multitenant cloud environment.
+  url: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Magnum
+  projects:
+    - repo: openstack/magnum
+    - repo: openstack/python-magnumclient
+
 Manila:
   ptl: Ben Swartzlander (bswartz)
   service: Shared file systems