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     <h2 class="post-title">New compute drivers and deprecated drivers in 1.0</h2>

   <span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Feb 16, 2016</span>

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     <p>With Libcloud 1.0.0 around the corner, it’s time to have a spring clean of the compute drivers. Granted, it’s not spring everywhere -actually
 I’m writing from Sydney, Australia where it’s definitely summer.</p>

 <p>Looking at the 52 providers in the 0.21.0 release, I have identified 5 providers that are no longer available or open.</p>

 <ul>
   <li>CloudFrames</li>
   <li>Looks dead - website doesn’t work, can’t see any references to this online.</li>
   <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.cloudframes</code></li>
   <li>HP Public Cloud (Helion)</li>
   <li><a href="https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2566">Shut down on 31st of January 2016</a></li>
   <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.hpcloud</code></li>
   <li>IBM SmartCloud Enterprise</li>
   <li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/31/ibm_to_shutter_smartcloud_enterprise_moves_customers_to_softlayer/">Shut down 2014, customers instructed to move to SoftLayer</a></li>
   <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.ibm_sce</code></li>
   <li>Ninefold</li>
   <li><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/news/ninefold-to-shut-down-411312">Ninefold shut down in January 2016</a></li>
   <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.ninefold</code></li>
   <li>Opsource</li>
   <li>Dimension Data acquired OpSource in 2012, the Opsource driver is succeeded by the Dimension Data driver.</li>
   <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.opsource</code></li>
 </ul>

 <h3 id="handling-deprecated-drivers">Handling deprecated drivers</h3>

 <p>For 1.0.0, we need a clean and user-friendly way of handling deprecated drivers as well as keeping the repository clean from legacy code.</p>

 <p>The most obvious implementation is that calls to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">get_driver(Provider.NINEFOLD)</code> as an example will return a user error message saying
 this provider is no longer supported with a link to a new article and an alternative solution.</p>

 <p>Currently, users trying to instantiate a HPE public cloud driver for example will get a connection error, which is not user friendly.</p>

 <h3 id="new-compute-drivers-in-100-pre2">New compute drivers in 1.0.0-pre2</h3>

 <p>The upcoming release, so currently available in trunk contains some new compute drivers.</p>

 <ul>
   <li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/ntta.html">NTT America Public Cloud</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/internetsolutions.html">Internet Solutions Public Cloud</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/medone.html">Med-1 Public Cloud</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/indosat.html">Indosat Cloud</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/bsnl.html">BSNL IDC Cloud</a></li>
 </ul>

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	<p>With Libcloud 1.0.0 around the corner, it’s time to have a spring clean of the compute drivers. Granted, it’s not spring everywhere -actually
	I’m writing from Sydney, Australia where it’s definitely summer.</p>

	<p>Looking at the 52 providers in the 0.21.0 release, I have identified 5 providers that are no longer available or open.</p>

	<ul>
	<li>CloudFrames</li>
	<li>Looks dead - website doesn’t work, can’t see any references to this online.</li>
	<li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.cloudframes</code></li>
	<li>HP Public Cloud (Helion)</li>
	<li><a href="https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2566">Shut down on 31st of January 2016</a></li>
	<li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.hpcloud</code></li>
	<li>IBM SmartCloud Enterprise</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/31/ibm_to_shutter_smartcloud_enterprise_moves_customers_to_softlayer/">Shut down 2014, customers instructed to move to SoftLayer</a></li>
	<li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.ibm_sce</code></li>
	<li>Ninefold</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/news/ninefold-to-shut-down-411312">Ninefold shut down in January 2016</a></li>
	<li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.ninefold</code></li>
	<li>Opsource</li>
	<li>Dimension Data acquired OpSource in 2012, the Opsource driver is succeeded by the Dimension Data driver.</li>
	<li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.drivers.opsource</code></li>
	</ul>

	<h3 id="handling-deprecated-drivers">Handling deprecated drivers</h3>

	<p>For 1.0.0, we need a clean and user-friendly way of handling deprecated drivers as well as keeping the repository clean from legacy code.</p>

	<p>The most obvious implementation is that calls to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">get_driver(Provider.NINEFOLD)</code> as an example will return a user error message saying
	this provider is no longer supported with a link to a new article and an alternative solution.</p>

	<p>Currently, users trying to instantiate a HPE public cloud driver for example will get a connection error, which is not user friendly.</p>

	<h3 id="new-compute-drivers-in-100-pre2">New compute drivers in 1.0.0-pre2</h3>

	<p>The upcoming release, so currently available in trunk contains some new compute drivers.</p>

	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/ntta.html">NTT America Public Cloud</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/internetsolutions.html">Internet Solutions Public Cloud</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/medone.html">Med-1 Public Cloud</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/indosat.html">Indosat Cloud</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/bsnl.html">BSNL IDC Cloud</a></li>
	</ul>

	<p>Full change log can be found at <a href="https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/trunk/CHANGES.rst">here</a>.</p>


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