Several questions about roadmap

[Patrizio Bassi]

2017-10-31 9:10 GMT+01:00 Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com>:

> On 10/30/2017 10:51 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Андрей Башлаков <a.bashlakov at corp.vk.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all!
>>
>
> Hello Andrei!
>
>
>> We have several questions about MaaS roadmap:
>> 1) Is there any plans to make role-based user management? Current scheme
>> with admins and users is very constrained. We would like to see ability to
>> add roles that can, for example, only commission and run test on new
>> machines but can’t acquire machines or do anything else;
>>
>
> Yes, we do expect to have RBAC capabilities in future.
>
>
>
>> 2) Is there any plans to implement custom hooks for events, such as
>> change machine state or discovery new machines? We developing internal
>> product that actively using MaaS API and currently we need to run several
>> crawlers for detecting such changes.
>>
>
> How often does the state of the machines change?
> How large is the pool of the managed machines?
> Any reason why the polling approach is not sufficient?
>
>
> Polling won't scale very well :)
>
> I think the idea of hooks is sensible. It's not on our roadmap, patches or
> engineering engagements around that would be welcome.
>
> Mark
>
>
+1 to the idea of hooks with filters (hostname/ip address/hw features).
When something happens (es. machine spawns) we may want to do something
like register in inventory systems, subscribe to backup and monitoring,
send an email, notice a bot.....

Thank you

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Patrizio Bassi
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