From InfoWorld: A fledgling open source project at Intel is wiping the slate clean in managing workloads in VMs, in containers, and on bare metal alike.
The CIAO Project -- "CIAO" is short for "Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator" -- has been described in a Register article as what might result if OpenStack were redone from scratch.
But don't think of it as direct competition for OpenStack -- yet. It's better seen as a new approach to a problem OpenStack tried to solve: Can software workload management be decoupled from what the workload is, where it runs, and what it needs?
CIAO is split into three major components: controller, scheduler, and launcher. The controller provides all the top-level setting and policy enforcement around workloads, while the scheduler places workloads on available nodes.
The launcher is where things get interesting. It provides a common handler for workloads completely apart from where and how they're running. The differences between bare metal, VMs, and containers are abstracted away for the sake of the orchestrator -- and, by extension, for the sake of those deploying CIAO.
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