Juju and HP Cloud Beta

[Nick Barcet]

On 03/27/2012 05:35 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from James Page's message of Tue Mar 27 00:58:51 -0700 2012:
>> Hash: SHA256
>>
>> Hi Marco
>>
>> On 26/03/12 17:09, Marco Ceppi wrote:
>>> I've been trying to connect to the HP Cloud Beta with Juju and
>>> keep getting a 401 error from Twisted. Has anyone been able to do
>>> this yet? Here's my environment stanza stripped of sensitive
>>> information and the verbose error from Twisted
>>>
>>> hp-beta: type: ec2 default-instance-type: standard.xsmall 
>>> access-key: --- secret-key: --- ec2-uri: 
>>> https://az-1.region-a.geo-1.ec2-compute.hpcloudsvc.com/services/Cloud
>>>
>>>
>> s3-uri:
>>> https://region-a.geo-1.objects.hpcloudsvc.com/v1.0/65675550201144 
>>> default-image-id: ami-000004da control-bucket: juju-hp-test 
>>> admin-secret: --- default-series: oneiric juju-origin: ppa
>>>
>>> The error is in the following pastebin link:
>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/900677/
>>
>> I don't think that the HP Cloud Beta supports the s3 API - so I would
>> suspect that the s3-uri is not working which is why you get this issue.
>>
>> I guess you might still be able to use Amazon S3 with the HP Cloud
>> compute resources - I think juju's usage is pretty light.
>>
> 
> This won't work without changes to juju. It uses txaws's AWSServiceRegion
> to represent "AWS" as a whole, which sets the ec2 and s3 endpoints to
> connect to. Even though the uri's can be set individually, the auth
> keys cannot. A simple change would be to allow different auth credentials
> to be specified for s3.
> 
> We've seen a number of problems with non Amazon providers of the EC2 api
> that do not really support S3. I wonder if a simple solution would be to
> include an optional WEBDAV service on node 0 to host charms and the seed
> data, sort of borrowing from the method used by orchestra and the local
> provider.
> 
> Another option is to decouple machine providers from object storage
> providers.

What about using ceph RADOS + S3 Gateway as an option. Dreamhost's about
to release its public service based on that...

Nick


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