Generators

[its02003]

Did the concept of platform specific generators ever come up with regards to oslo?

It would be nice to see a community supported set of assets for transforming OpenSLO compliant SLOs into operational measures on Splunk, Dynatrace, etc etc

I feel like most implementations will create these anyways, so why not make it open... thinking like a "galaxy" style or something. Happy to work out a few initial implementations if people think its a good idea to include in the scope of the project.

If not, would really love to hear why.

Prereqs before Generators can be discussed

• Stabilize spec

[ian-bartholomew]

Yeah, this is something that we are talking about. It would be great to have olso be able to generate SLOs.

[its02003]

@ian-bartholomew It generates some interesting discussion around spec constructs, as I mentioned in OpenSLO/OpenSLO#29 , there might need to be a bit more consistency in the constructs of the spec in order to be able to allow the spec to translate to actionable SLOs for platforms, and vice versa.

Additionally, I think this may lead back to the discussion that led to you creating OpenSLO/OpenSLO#27 as well

[ian-bartholomew]

@its02003 yeah, you are correct. We have a number of prerequisites to address before we can do it

[its02003]

Mind if we list those in this issue? We can build out the list as we identify more

[its02003]

@ian-bartholomew thoughts on the idea of tracking the prerequisites here?

[ian-bartholomew]

@its02003 i think the primary prerequisite is that we need to get the spec in a more stable place. While we are working on the early iterations there's a lot in flight. I'm trying to track as many of those issues in the spec repo. Thanks!

[its02003]

@ian-bartholomew I added this as a pre-requisite on the issue. I think it might make sense to spend a moment defining what is considered unstable about the spec and when it might be considered "stable"