[OpenStack-Infra] Space for Sahara artifacts (disk images)

Evgeny Sikachev esikachev at mirantis.com
Fri May 26 08:34:44 UTC 2017


Hi!

I found the project which is using tarballs for storing images. https://tarballs.openstack.org/trove/images/

We would like to use the same space for storing sahara-images if it is possible.

Please answer on Luigi's questions.

Best Regards,

Evgeny Sikachev
QA Engineer
Mirantis, Inc

On 28 Apr 2017, 16:39 +0400, Luigi Toscano <ltoscano at redhat.com>, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Sahara project has been providing pre-built images containing the Hadoop/
> Spark/$bigdata frameworks since the beginning of the project, so that users
> can be immediately productive.
>
> The generated qcow2 images have been living so far here:
> http://sahara-files.mirantis.com/images/upstream/
>
> As a team we were wondering whether we could store those images on some shared
> and publicly accessible space on openstack.org (like tarballs.openstack.org).
>
> I guess that the main concern could be the disk usage. Currently the space
> used for the older releases (from kilo to newton) is around ~110GB. The
> estimate for Ocata is ~35GB and the number is going to grow.
> Of course we can drop old images when a certain release reaches its end-of-
> life (unless there is a place to store some archived artifacts).
>
> About the update frequency: the images are currenctly rebuilt with with every
> commit in sahara-image-elements (and soon in sahara with a different build
> method) by the tests.
> I don't think that we would need to update the images in this stored space
> with every commit, but at most once every month or, even better, when a new
> release of sahara-image-elements is tagged.
>
> Please note that we already store some artifacts on tarballs.openstack.org,
> even if their size is not definitely not the same of those disk images.
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/175395/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/367271/
>
> To summarize: would it be possible for us to use some shared space, and if
> yes, which are the conditions?
>
> --
> Luigi
>
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