Open Stack

On 12/11/2012 12:04 PM, Martyn Taylor wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> After a meeting in Brno a few weeks back I met up with a fellow
> RedHat colleague Steven Hardy, who is working on a project called
> Heat (an OpenStack incubator project).  After watching his
> presentation on OpenStack and then later his talk about Heat at the
> EMEA OpenStack day we got chatting, and the subject of Image
> Building in OpenStack came up.
> 
> The project I currently work on, "Aeolus" has a suite of tools for
> managing federated clouds.  One of the tools we've created is called
> Imagefactory and is designed specifically to allow automated
> building, converting and uploading of images to a number of Cloud
> providers.  We decided it would be worthwhile to get together and
> try to integrate the two projects, since Imagefactory had recently
> gained a provider plugin for OpenStack.
> 
> The result of this experiment is a proof of concept that we pulled
> together in a few days.  We put together a video that demo's the
> thing in action.  You can view it here (it's only around 6mins).
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk

Very, very nice, Martyn!

> We'd be interested to see what other users think of this.  We aim to
> create a horizon plugin that should be easily included in existing
> OpenStack installations.  We'd love to get feedback from you guys.

Yes, yes, yes. Can't wait to see the code! :)

> Is this something you would find useful?
> Can you envisage this fitting into your current processes?

Absolutely.

> Hopefully this can provide a starting point to discuss image-building
> requirements for OpenStack, which will provide valuable input to the
> Imagefactory team, who are interested in adding further, more scalable
> support for OpenStack to Imagefactory

What are the current scalability limitations you are experiencing?
Perhaps I can contribute some work there...

Best,
-jay