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Client Meeting: Week 5

About the meeting

  • Date: 2025-08-12
  • Time: 14:01-14:40
  • Participants: León Jaramillo, Jerónimo Acosta, Juan Sebastián Jácome, Paula Llanos, Luis Torres
  • Recording: Link to SharePoint

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Project Objectives and Tools

  • Goal: Enable users to create resources in a private cloud using OpenStack, either through a management console or Terraform scripts.
  • OpenStack: Core platform for managing VMs, storage, and networks.
  • Terraform: Industry-standard IaC tool; allows programmatic provisioning. OpenTofu considered as open-source alternative.
  • First Sprint: Create a VM using both the console and Terraform.

Licensing and Alternatives

  • Terraform: Now under IBM, no longer open source but still free.
  • OpenTofu: Open-source alternative; recommended to support both for flexibility.

Web Interface Decisions

  • Framework: Team free to use Django or others.
  • Interfaces: Evaluate existing OpenStack GUIs (Horizon, Skyline) before building from scratch.

Recommendations

  • Explore OpenStack services and tools (1–2 hours).
  • Prioritize VM creation before expanding features.
  • Strengthen cloud knowledge via courses (e.g., AWS Educate).
  • Use infrastructure diagrams for documentation.

Follow-up

  • Research OpenStack capabilities.
  • Investigate customizing Horizon/Skyline.
  • Share URLs and repos in group chat.
  • Complete AWS Educate “Cloud 101.”