[OpenStack-DefCore] Image APIs in Glance and Nova

Chris Lee chris.lee at dreamhost.com
Wed Jun 17 17:14:48 UTC 2015


For the... ?

Is there more? :)

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:56 AM, John Garbutt <john at johngarbutt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So this was raised in the cross project meeting, and thank you for that.
>
> I keep mentioning use cases, so here we go...
> * create from cloud base image for ubuntu 12.04
> * above but with boot from volume
> * create a snapshot
> * download snapshot
> * upload image into another openstack cloud
> * boot server from uploaded image
>
> Now, at a higher level:
> * user does above using custom script for Cloud A and Cloud B
> * user keeps to just the APIs that are defcore tested
> * user gets access to Cloud C and Cloud D
> * user wants to point script at new clouds, and everything should just work
>
> So I think thats where we want to be. Now lets dig in...
>
> To list images, the user could:
> * use nova to list images (stable, but project wants to delete it)
> * use glance v1 (should never be exposed to end users, was designed as
> internal only API)
> * use glance v2 (only just released, not really deployed anywhere)
>
> For the
>
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