[openstack-dev] [nova] [glance] Getting the ball rolling on glance v2 in nova in newton cycle

Nikhil Komawar nik.komawar at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 15:32:57 UTC 2016


Thanks for the update, Jay. (My memories of Mitaka have been faint.)

I guess a commitment of this has been made so it needs to be hold and
since it's been delayed, I guess it makes it a higher priority. I will
work on a plan to get this done.

On 4/15/16 10:42 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 04/01/2016 06:45 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
>> #2 - move discover major version back to glanceclient -
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/3cdaa30566c17a2add5d9163a0693c97dc1d065b/nova/image/glance.py#L108
>>
>>
>> I don't understand why this was ever in nova. This really should be
>>
>> glanceclient.discover... something. It uses internal methods from
>> glanceclient and internal structures of the content returned.
>>
>> Catching, if desired, should also be on the glanceclient side.
>> glanceclient.reset_version() could exist to clear any caching.
>
> This is exactly what I said in the original review in Mitaka :(
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/222150/
>
> Note that on PS10 I wrote:
>
> This code belongs in glanceclient, not Nova, IMHO...
>
> Line 169: Most of the above code should actually be in the
> python-glanceclient package, not here. The Nova code should be able to
> call glanceclient with a URI and get the latest supported Glance API
> version.
>
> and then later I said:
>
> To be a little clearer... the Nova code should be able to do something
> like this:
>
>  glance_uris = CONF.glance_api_servers
>  glance_uri_version_map = {glance_uri:
> glanceclient.get_latest_version(uri)
>             for uri in glance_uris}
>
> So... pretty much in line with what you say above.
>
> Flavio then responded to me:
>
> "While I agree with you, I believe we should let this in "for now"
> whilst it's added to glanceclient. One of the things that blocked the
> previous work during the Kilo cycle were things being added to
> glanceclient and the fact that they weren't available right away.
>
> Can we agree on removing this code as soon as there's a glanceclient
> release with it? Happy to have a bug filed against glanceclient. The
> glance team will take care of this."
>
> and I wrote:
>
> "OK, if you promise to remove some of this code when glanceclient gets
> this functionality, then I suppose I'm good with this going in Nova
> for now."
>
> So, there's your answer to "why this was ever in Nova".
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
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Thanks,
Nikhil




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