Dear FIWARE teams,

in terms of our survey for European Pioneers we have executed a User
Acceptance Test nailed down to the most essential end-user scenario for 7
regions listed below:

„I want to be able to get a shell access with a public IP to an instance in
a simple and straightforward way“.

We are available that Terms of Usage are changing soon and ID verfication
will be required to access public IPs, but this is not the issue here.

We have tried today to create an instance in each region with the following
results. (Account name for admins to look up the logs:
christian.bonkowski@iais.fraunhofer.de
<christian.bonkowski@iais.fraunhofer.de> , instance name: test-iais)
Every time we expected that same steps are required to create a VM with a
public IP and shell acccess. We assume also that not every potential
customer with overall intermediate skill level has enough knowledge to
manually configure a network.

Typical error pattern in many cases was, there is a default network which
cannot be used without an error, and custom network usage can also result in
an error.

Region

Public IP allowed

Manual

Details

UAT synopsis

UAT: get IP+VM shell

Lannion

Yes

Yes

Manual 12 pages, not very straightforward.

With manual acceptable but not competitive.

PASS

Spain

Yes

No

No Networks/Router, auto-assign of int. IP

Allocation of public IP easy.

PASS

Trento

No

No

Much trial&error required

Admin skills needed for network

FAIL

Waterford

Yes

No

Manual network config

Undefined error on IP assign.

FAIL

Berlin

No

No

Manual network config

No public IP available.

FAIL

Pragua

Yes

No

As in Spain, no networks

IP ok. Error on instance creation.

FAIL

Mexico

Yes

No

Own network = no instance

400 error on instance launch.

FAIL

We recommend a to implement a formal quality assurance process based on an
audit so that all regions can implement same must-have common functionality
at least for this one scenario, if possible. Think of McDonlads: you get
identical Cola &BigMac offer everywhere but some regions have got their own
food specials.

Additionally, most successful regions like Spain might want to share their
knowledge with other regions.

Kind regards / viele Grüße & Servus

Peter Muryshkin, M. Sc.

Skype ID: peter_iais

LinkedIn: http://de.linkedin.com/in/muryshkin

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