Designate/Incubation Application
Contents
- 1 Project codename
- 2 Trademarks
- 3 Summary (one sentence abstract of the project)
- 4 Parent Program name and PTL
- 5 Mission statement
- 6 Detailed Description
- 7 Basic roadmap for the project
- 8 Location of project source code
- 9 Programming language, required technology dependencies
- 10 Is project currently open sourced? What license?
- 11 Level of maturity of software and team
- 12 Project developers qualifications
- 13 Infrastructure requirements (testing, etc)
- 14 Have all current contributors agreed to the OpenStack CLA?
Project codename
Designate
Trademarks
(Does this project name, codename or contents use any trademarks, and if so, who owns them? List the codenames or other marks for which a trademark search should occur.)
No
Summary (one sentence abstract of the project)
Designate is a DNS as a Service (DNSaaS) for Openstack clouds.
Parent Program name and PTL
Program - DNS Program. (see <link to program application>)
Mission statement
(if the project is part of a new OpenStack program)
(see <link to program application>)
Detailed Description
(what is the purpose of the project and vision for it? describe the relevance of the project to other OpenStack projects and the OpenStack mission to provide a ubiquitous cloud computing platform)
Designate is a DNS as-a-service project. It is intended to be used to provide DNS service from the entry point of creating, updating, maintaining and deleting DNS data using the Designate API, to providing DNS resolution for users. It is a very modular project, allowing for the use of whatever DNS server and organization demands, or the database where DNS data is stored. It is also intended to work in conjunction with other components such as Nova and Neutron.
The purpose of the project is provide managed DNS for the Openstack Ecosystem using a REST API or Designate Sink which consumes events from other Openstack projects, such as Nova or Neutron.
Designate is relevant to the mission by adding a missing piece of data-center functionality, namely, one of the most ubiquitous services, DNS. It's relevant to other OpenStack projects by automating the name resolution changes required for the creation and deletion of Nova instances or other components.
Basic roadmap for the project
Location of project source code
https://github.com/stackforge/designate
https://github.com/stackforge/python-designateclient
Programming language, required technology dependencies
Lanugage:
Python
Dependancies
message queue, DNS server, database server
Is project currently open sourced? What license?
Yes - Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
Level of maturity of software and team
Software
Running as a GA service in HP Public Cloud for over a year
Team
The team has been working together for approximately 18 months, but has been growing during that time as new contributors join the team
Project developers qualifications
Kiall Mac Innes
Graham Hayes
Endre Karlson
Betsy Luzader
Vinod Mangalpally
Emmanuel Ankutse
Tim Simmons
Ron Rickard
Rich Megginson
Infrastructure requirements (testing, etc)
We currently use stackforge / gerrit / jenkins for our testing suite - we do not see any additional requirements on top of what the infra team provide
Have all current contributors agreed to the OpenStack CLA?
Yes