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Consider future of `orchestrate` command #459

Open bobwhitelock opened 5 years ago

bobwhitelock commented 5 years ago

The orchestrate command is a fairly prototype-y way for Metalware to orchestrate (create/destroy) VMs as part of a cluster, and Steve has previously mentioned that orchestrate does not really fit with the current vision of Metalware.

We should consider disabling/deleting/moving this command; in particular, this may be worth doing as part of the changes needed for getting Metalware suitable to be used as a product.

WilliamMcCumstie commented 5 years ago

Is this a cloudware-y thing?

bobwhitelock commented 5 years ago

I think Steve originally mentioned it as potentially part of a new tool (vmware... but not called that :stuck_out_tongue:), but it's possible that this could fit in as a new type of 'provider' in the new Cloudware. Depends if the way we want to handle VM orchestration is similar enough to how we want to handle Cloud orchestration that handling these in a standardised way makes sense, or if these are better off living in separate tools.