Revision as of 01:30, 15 May 2016

Higgens is an OpenStack Container Management Service making container available as first class resources in OpenStack. It aims to provide an unified API for launching and managing containers backed by different container technologies.

News

• 2016-04-20 According to the discussion in the OpenStack Austin design summit, we are going to create a new project (which is Higgins) for providing OpenStack container service. The Magnum project (another OpenStack project for containers) will focus on deployment and management of Container Orchestration Engines (COEs).

Resources

• Launchpad Project Pages
  • Higgins Launchpad Project
  • Bug Tracker
• Mailing List
  • OpenStack Mailing List for project related discussion
    • Add [Higgins] to the subject line of new posts about this project.
  • OpenStack Mailing List Archives for current discussion.
• Code Repository
  • http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/higgins

IRC

Our developers use IRC in #openstack-higgins on freenode for development discussion.

Meetings

The Higgins team holds public meetings. We meet in #openstack-higgins on Friday on the following schedule:

Agenda for 2016-05-13 0300 UTC

• Roll Call
• Welcome
• Introductions
• Announcements
  • #link https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/1382,members Initial Higgins core team
• Drive consensus on requirements
  • #link https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/container-management-service etherpad for collaborating on project requirements
• Open Discussion

Previous Meetings

• 2016 Higgins Team Meeting Archive

Frequently Asked Questions

1) What is the relationship between Higgins and Magnum?

Higgins and Magnum are two independent project. Higgins aims to provide APIs to manage containers, while Magnum provides APIs to provision and manage Container Orchestration Engine (COEs), such as Kubernetes.