<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is only part of what imagefactory does. Oz doesn't translate an image to the target image format for a specific cloud. This is what imagefactory does. For some clouds, there is more to be done here than for others. Oz also does not push the image to a cloud provider where you can instantiate the image. Again, this is part of what imagefactory does.<div><br></div><div>It's a mistake to view imagefactory as a REST interface to Oz. Instead, view Oz as a python package one of the imagefactory plugins currently uses for part of what imagefactory does.</div><div><br></div><div>-steve<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 11, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Matt Joyce <<a href="mailto:matt.joyce@cloudscaling.com">matt.joyce@cloudscaling.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">The short summary is this is a restful API interface to oz.<br><br>Very cool. <br><br><br>-Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Jay Pipes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 12/11/2012 12:04 PM, Martyn Taylor wrote:<br>
> Hello all,<br>
><br>
> After a meeting in Brno a few weeks back I met up with a fellow<br>
> RedHat colleague Steven Hardy, who is working on a project called<br>
> Heat (an OpenStack incubator project). After watching his<br>
> presentation on OpenStack and then later his talk about Heat at the<br>
> EMEA OpenStack day we got chatting, and the subject of Image<br>
> Building in OpenStack came up.<br>
><br>
> The project I currently work on, "Aeolus" has a suite of tools for<br>
> managing federated clouds. One of the tools we've created is called<br>
> Imagefactory and is designed specifically to allow automated<br>
> building, converting and uploading of images to a number of Cloud<br>
> providers. We decided it would be worthwhile to get together and<br>
> try to integrate the two projects, since Imagefactory had recently<br>
> gained a provider plugin for OpenStack.<br>
><br>
> The result of this experiment is a proof of concept that we pulled<br>
> together in a few days. We put together a video that demo's the<br>
> thing in action. You can view it here (it's only around 6mins).<br>
> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk</a><br>
<br>
</div>Very, very nice, Martyn!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> We'd be interested to see what other users think of this. We aim to<br>
> create a horizon plugin that should be easily included in existing<br>
> OpenStack installations. We'd love to get feedback from you guys.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, yes, yes. Can't wait to see the code! :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Is this something you would find useful?<br>
> Can you envisage this fitting into your current processes?<br>
<br>
</div>Absolutely.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Hopefully this can provide a starting point to discuss image-building<br>
> requirements for OpenStack, which will provide valuable input to the<br>
> Imagefactory team, who are interested in adding further, more scalable<br>
> support for OpenStack to Imagefactory<br>
<br>
</div>What are the current scalability limitations you are experiencing?<br>
Perhaps I can contribute some work there...<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
-jay<br>
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