Building the roadmap

It's an exciting time to be involved in such a rapidly changing project. That excitement should be leveraged by a cloud architect who is looking to gain adoption from application development teams. One way to build interest in the developer community is to continually expand the amount of services that are available to them in the private cloud. As we mentioned earlier, adding capabilities from services like Trove or Designate to the cloud simplifies the work that both developers and operators do. Including developer teams as early-adopters of new features is a great way to build rapport and confidence with them as well.

Introducing new features

A prerequisite for being able to incrementally add new features to an OpenStack deployment is to have a set of test environments available to advance the features through. Cloud engineering teams should have a private environment where they can develop and test new features and another environment where end users can test features...