How Yahoo! Uses Neutron for Ironic
Yahoo is huge! Yahoo has always had some legacy infrastructure in place, for better or worse, to solve the problems that OpenStack now solves. When we try to move to OpenStack, we can’t just get rid of existing infrastructure.
Also, most of these legacy requirements come from our huge scale. So we need to make sure that when we move to OpenStack, we continue supporting those use-cases. To do so, we need to patch Neutron heavily as it currently doesn’t support them. Most of them are useful for the community as well, since anyone at this scale is going to have similar requirement.
We are working with community to upstream them. With this talk, we would like to share our experience, use-cases, hacks and also like to know if anyone else in the community has the same requirements.
