Please note: This schedule is for OpenStack Active Technical Contributors participating in the Icehouse Design Summit sessions in Hong Kong. These are working sessions to determine the roadmap of the Icehouse release and make decisions across the project. To see the full OpenStack Summit schedule, including presentations, panels and workshops, go to http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org.
The OpenStack ecosystem plays host to a number of guest agents, tiny programs which help manage services or other components on provisioned servers. Trove also makes use of an agent to provision and manage datastores.
There are currently two known agents used for Trove- the so called "reference agent" found in the Trove repository as well as Sneaky Pete which is currently used by Rackspace. Both suffer from architectual issues with how they communicate with Trove (some of which will hopefully be resolved by the work on Conductor).
Let's get together and discuss the way that Trove's relationship with agents as well as the agents themselves can be improved.
