[horizon][Glance] create image by downloading/importing from UI vs. CLI

Sean McGinnis sean.mcginnis at gmx.com
Mon Oct 26 13:56:59 UTC 2020


On 10/24/20 3:37 PM, Tony Liu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The initial issue I saw was "The Store URI was malformed." from
> Horizon when creating image by URL [1].
>
> It works fine with Glance CLI as the following.
> ========
> glance image-create --container-format bare --disk-format qcow2 --name cirros-test
> glance image-import --import-method web-download --uri https://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.5.1/cirros-0.5.1-x86_64-disk.img cirros-test
> ========
>
> When I look into it, I see that UI and CLI work differently, they are
> handled by different workflow in Glance. Why is that?
> Why not UI follows the same workflow as CLI?
No input, but adding the [horizon] tag to the subject line to try to get
the right set of eyes on it.
>
> The root cause is that, [1] redirect to [2] and redirect to [3].
> One issue here is that, query is not supported in [4]. pieces.query
> is dropped. When I attached query parameters, I got 403. And that's
> because, the workflow for UI is checking quota policy when adding
> location. It needs to get the size of image by HEAD request.
> But the signature in [3] is for GET request. So that HEAD request
> is forbidden by S3.
>
> I don't think we can get an URL with signature for HEAD request in
> such case. So I go for an ugly workaround to skip the size check.
> Any ideas to make it work better?
>
> Is quota policy involved in CLI workflow? Again, can we make UI
> work the same way as CLI?
>
> [1] https://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.5.1/cirros-0.5.1-x86_64-disk.img
> [2] https://github.com/cirros-dev/cirros/releases/download/0.5.1/cirros-0.5.1-x86_64-disk.img
> [3] https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/219785102/6ebfbc00-5fb5-11ea-91bd-96a6baa1496d?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20201024%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20201024T191926Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=0f49887e19f40bb969f0b033fba3c8986edc55fccdbea4b6003ef799fc055712&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&key_id=0&repo_id=219785102&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dcirros-0.5.1-x86_64-disk.img&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
> [4] https://github.com/openstack/glance_store/blob/488d3e2fe31e4fc7a461e9de8b20df481d78daa2/glance_store/_drivers/http.py#L121
>
>
> Thanks!
> Tony
>
>



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