Let's talk about where the Manila developers think the project is going. And then calibrate that direction in light of cloud operators' and users' actual needs.
Manila provides file system shares as a service to end users in the classical OpenStack multi-tenant model.
Equally, it provides a stable programming interface for cloud applications. Since the API is presented over the network, and since file shares are provided over the network without hypervisor intervention, Manila is well positioned to serve applications and platforms beyond just OpenStack compute instances.
See https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/manila-berlin for a list of current developer work items.
Add your thoughts in the etherpad and better yet come to this Forum session to let us know your priorities and to help influence the direction of this project going forwards.
Operators will learn what the Manila developers are working on, how they are framing problems, and how to influence the project going forwards. They will also learn solutions, use cases, and problems from one another.
Developers will get real use cases, problems, pain points from operators and candid feedback on their pet projects and features.
