[JCLOUDS-128] Improve BYON config formats/interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: jclouds-compute
• Assignee: Andrew Bayer
• Reporter: Andrew Bayer
• Created: 17/Jun/13 21:52
• Updated: 12/Sep/17 03:28

Description

So this is a bit of a pet peeve, one that I've already done some work related to over on Whirr. BYON only being able to take its config via YAML is a pain in the butt - the only other way to get config into BYON is via CacheNodeStoreModule, which means you have to change how you're initializing BYON etc, etc, etc...it's a pain. At the very least, I'd like to have the ability to define BYON nodes with JSON. But I'd also really like to have an actual honest-to-god programmatic interface for adding/removing nodes from the compute service, which would just make BYON a lot easier to use.