From 3433859ffe33846e127f17f0dbdd7dfb769fa70a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xingchao Yu Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:18:44 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add why Foxnut, Why us chapter --- README.md | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 302bbb9..1b58580 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,10 +5,29 @@ datacenter, rack, network devices, servers, interfaces, disks, etc. devices, Foxnut provides an OpenStack-native REST API and will contain comand line tool and web-based visualization interface. -## Getting Started +# Why Foxnut, Why us + +As a cloud infrastructure software, OpenStack has hidden the complexity of +hardwares for end users. But to cloud operators, they have to face different +hardwares under OpenStack, such as: racks, servers, interfaces, fibers, etc. + +As a DevOps team of OpenStack service provider, we have deliverd more than +one hundred OpenStack clusters for users, the preparatory work is repeated and +complicated, it takes lots of time on checking the correctness of links and +location of servers, when complexity grow exponentially with the grow of clusters +scale and availability. + +Foxnut is aim to manage these hardware efficiently, it's designed to collect +hardware information and organize them in visualization, operators can choose +different OpenStack architecture and foxnut will generate automatically rack view +and networking cables and connections view. It also will display hardwares status +in real-time. With foxnut's help, operators could install servers into a rack and +cable the server quickly and easily. ![foxnut-why](image/foxnut-why.png) +## Getting Started + If you'd like to run from the master branch, you can clone the git repo: git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/foxnut