[gpfsug-discuss] Native Rest API

[Jonathan Buzzard]

I just had an email from IBM about technology preview of the "Native 
Rest API" feature in 5.2.1.0

There are at least two interrelated and important questions that are not 
answered in the web page about this "Native Rest API" feature IMHO.

Firstly the page says it "eliminates" the need to administer the Scale 
cluster with the mm-command layer. Does that mean the mm-command layer 
is going away? Will I in the future going to forced to use some "naff" 
GUI layer to administer a GPFS cluster? Frankly I am quite happy using 
the mm-command layer thank you very much and would like to keep it that 
way and just be able to ignore the GUI. I do appreciate I might be 
somewhat old school in that view but never the less I view GUI 
administration of things with disdain.

Secondly at the moment the Rest API requires installing the GUI. Does 
the "native" bit of the title mean that requirement is going away and 
there will be a Rest API without the need for the additional complexity 
of the GUI nodes? Or is the mm-command layer going away and yes you will 
need the extra complexity of the GUI because you are going to have to 
suck up administering the system with a GUI?


JAB.

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