Poppy

Summary
An OpenStack project designed to make CDN services easier to consume with a generic vendor-neutral API.

Overview
[Poppy Marketing Site]

Poppy provides CDNaaS for OpenStack:


 * REST API for CDN service provisioning
 * Multi-tenant
 * Integrated with Keystone for Authentication
 * Integrated with Designate for dynamic CNAMEing
 * Support for CDN providers (Fastly, MaxCDN, CloudFront, Akamai, Edgecast)

OpenStack operators have many choices when incorporating a Content Delivery Network (CDN) into their infrastructure -- the CDN marketplace has both tried-and-true vendors and up-and-coming upstarts with innovative new features.

But these vendors often have highly-customized and proprietary provisioning APIs. This can be problematic when an operator wishes to support multiple providers -- or swap out one vendor for another. And these challenges spill over to developers who become forced into codifying the CDN instructions for multiple vendors into their applications.

Poppy aims to solve these challenges. Written as a modular, vendor-neutral API, Poppy incorporates a driver-based model that wraps provisioning instructions for all CDN vendors that support it. Application developers can write their code once, and Poppy will handle all the requisite translations behind-the-scenes.

Primary Mission
Poppy's primary mission is to provide a generic and modular vendor-neutral API that wraps provisioning instructions for CDN vendors that support it.

Production Ready
Poppy is Production Ready and is currently deployed the following OpenStack Operators:
 * Rackspace

As the API is fleshed out, and basic vendor support is added, the product will continue to mature.

Poppy is open to the developer community and CDN vendors to collaborate and build this exciting new product.

Poppy is currently planning to apply for the Big Tent umbrella during the Mitaka Cycle.

Launchpad
Launchpad

Meetings
If you are interested in Poppy, you can attend the public meetings held weekly in `#openstack-meeting-alt` on freenode.

Agenda: Meetings/Poppy

IRC (Freenode)
The Poppy team hangs out in  channel on Freenode. Feel free to stop in anytime to chat with us. The crew is always happy to hear your ideas and answer questions.

If you run into a bug, please report it using our issue tracker.

Talks/Presentations
Poppy/Talks

= Source = GitHub

Launchpad

Bugs

Python documentation

Contributing

Participating

 * Poppy/Developer - Getting Started
 * Poppy/Developer - Review Guidelines

= Design =
 * API v1.0 ("under development")
 * Poppy use cases
 * Server architecture
 * Frequently asked questions

= CDN Providers = ''We are always looking for new CDN providers to join Poppy. Feel free to ping us on #openstack-poppy to chat how you can contribute, and read some of the Getting Started guides above. We look forward to having you on board!''


 * Fastly (under development)
 * MaxCDN (under development)
 * Amazon CloudFront (under development)
 * Akamai (under development)
 * Edgecast (coming soon)
 * Insert Your CDN Here !!!

Participating

 * Poppy/Provider - Getting Started