Higgins
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.
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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
- 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.
- OpenStack Mailing List for project related discussion
- Code Repository
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:
2016-05-13 | UTC 0300 Friday | http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Higgins+Team+Meeting&iso=20160513T03 |
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
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.
2) Who is Higgins for? In comparison, who is Magnum for?
Higgins is for users who want to create and manage containers as OpenStack-managed resource. Containers managed by Higgins are supposed to be integrated well with other OpenStack resources, such as Neutron network and Cinder volume. Users are provided a simplified APIs to manage containers without the need to explore the complexities of different container technologies. Magnum is for users who want a self-service solution to provision and manage a Kubernetes (or other COEs) cluster.
3) What is the difference between Higgins and nova-docker?
Higgins is supposed to be the better place for nova-docker. The only maintainer of nova-docker is now a Higgins team member.