From a30870cc5c7af44047db8b82b955bcb33004530b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gal Sagie Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:20:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add Gal Sagie candidancy to Dragonflow Change-Id: Ib82c3095fa9eedcfdd08ab8d1989d621ae5759dc --- candidates/newton/Dragonflow/Gal_Sagie.txt | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/newton/Dragonflow/Gal_Sagie.txt diff --git a/candidates/newton/Dragonflow/Gal_Sagie.txt b/candidates/newton/Dragonflow/Gal_Sagie.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b89d7765 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/newton/Dragonflow/Gal_Sagie.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +I would like to propose my candidacy for Dragonflow PTL position. + +Dragonflow has recently joined OpenStack big-tent but i have been working +on it from the start even before the Kilo release. +Leading the open design/architecture of the project and doing most of the +implementation in the first stages of the project. + +Recently many new people joined to work on this project both internally +and externally and i am making sure the project runs transparently while +constantly receiving community feedback. + +My goal for Dragonflow is to make it a reference architecture to implement +networking and distributed networking services in an easy and simple manner +while supporting production grade and large scale requirements. + +I think that Dragonflow pluggable architecture is proving to be a strong +choice we made and is even being considered at other OpenStack networking +projects. +I also believe that our simplicity can be very appealing to users that +want a simple network virtualization solution part of OpenStack. + +An important goal is to keep Dragonflow an integral part of OpenStack +and make sure to address the various use cases of OpenStack deployments +in terms of networking. + +My missions for the next release: + +* Stability and Scale testing, making sure what we have and the road we picked + actually address the milestones we set for our self. + +* Work with the community to define testing standards for both control and + data plane testing and measurements that can help OpenStack users pick the + best fit solution for their networking. + I would also like to work on defining quality standards for DB consistency and + correct solution and feature sets definition for the various different plugins. + +* Work with a wider OpenStack community and additional different users, i personally see + Dragonflow as a community effort and put a strong emphasise on diversity and + solutions to more different use cases the wider community has. + +* Service Injection and Chaining - this topic describe our extension model and how + different users can use external applications and even controllers to work hand + in hand with Dragonflow and be able to insert logic to our pipeline. + This concept is very important to keep Dragonflow simple but also be able to easily + extend it and be able to address various different use cases. + +* Containers networking and close integration with project Kuryr, making sure + Dragonflow can be used as a solution for nested containers and bare metal. + +* More advance distributed networking services like IGMP, Load balancer, DNS + service and more that can be reference architecture for building distributed + networking services on one infrastructure. + +* Keep writing blogs and conducting meetups for new contributors and users, enhance + our project documentation and best practices and sharing our experience with the + wider community. + + +As you can see i am planning a very challenging release but i believe that we can +do it and i would like to help this happen. + +Thanks +Gal.