One of the biggest promises of the cloud vision is the idea that the infrastructure could be managed in a policy-driven fashion, which could react to hard and soft failures and automatically heal and optimise services. Most of the components required for implementing such an architecture already exist as OpenStack projects; however there is not yet a clear strategy within the community for how these should all tie together.
To address this, a new Self-Healing SIG (Special Interest Group) was recently officially formed, which aims to coordinate the use and development of relevant OpenStack projects towards this vision.
In this talk, we present an introductory overview of the SIG's goals and recent and future work. We also discuss how the capabilities of existing projects can contribute to a coherent self-healing infrastructure, and explain how anyone interested can join in the efforts to drive this vision forward.
