[ovirt-users]Re: About oVirt’s future
On 2022-11-21 19:56, Alex McWhirter wrote:
I have some manpower im willing to throw at oVirt, but i somewhat
need
to know if what the community wants and what we want are in line.
That's actually great news! I appreciate that you are reaching out to
the community to get early feedback.
4. some things need cut from ovirt, namely hosted engine and maybe
the
grafana stuff. Not that these aren't nice to have, but hosted engine
rarely actually works reliable in it's current state (compare mailing
list complaints of hosted engine vs other issues) and the grafana
stuff can be pushed into a sub project.
Oh, I'm puzzled, my experience is the opposite: hosted engine works
great for me – and it has been this way for many years. (But I'm not
using all of its features.)
What would you suggest as replacement?
5. It needs to do containers. Doesn't need to be the behemoth of
OKD,
but something more along the lines of what k3s does, for now.
Agreed. However, I hope that it will not impose the insane overhead
like k8s.
These are the thing's i'd like to see done, and maybe also
cut back
some of the RHEL specific stuff to allow debian deployments (would
massively help with userbase). Basically for the past year i've been
tasked with figuring out if we are going to fork ovirt internally or
move to OpenNebula. I prefer the ovirt option if the opportunity now
exists to take things in another direction.
Supporting different Linux distributions is a great idea. But I'd
expect this to be a huge untertaking. Adding support for flavors
like Rocky Linux would probably be a good first step.
If you don't plan to fork oVirt, then I'd recommend to coordinate
your efforts with the oVirt board members. AFAICT the current team
of developers will continue to provide minor releases until RHEV is
dead, so I guess new features or feature removals need to be done in
a new major release (without help from RedHat).
Ciao
- Frank