[Openstack] [Glance] Replication implementations
Jay Pipes
jaypipes at gmail.com
Mon May 7 13:11:03 UTC 2012
On 05/02/2012 11:24 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing from people who have implemented some form
> of replication with glance. I'm especially interested in how you went
> about it. I attended the session at the dev summit, but that was forward
> looking, and I am pretty sure that there wasn't any mention of current
> implementations.
>
> I'll get the ball rolling -- I have just implemented API level
> replication for glance for an internal project. It uses the glance API
> to replicate images from a master glance to slave glances. Its not very
> smart at the moment, it just copies everything.
>
> Current warts:
> - no support for metadata update
> - no support for filtering of what is replicated
> - maintaining amazon ec2 ids across regions requires twiddling the nova
> database where this mapping is stored
>
> Advantages of this approach:
> - API level replication means that I can run different versions of
> glance at each end of the replication relationship
> - it really wasn't that hard to do
>
> Would other people be interested in getting this code into glance,
> probably as a stand alone command line tool? Or has someone done
> something much better that I should be using instead?
To make your solution look incredibly complex, in TryStack, we do image
replication with a Jenkins job that runs a two line bash script every 20
minutes or so that rsyncs the image_data_dir from our active Glance API
server (with filesystem backend) to our passive failover Glance API
server. We use a simple DRBD HA setup for the MySQL server so we aren't
concerned about the Glance registry server.
So there! I have officially one-upped your simple solution ;)
-jay
p.s. Yes, I know it's not cross-region replication, but figured I would
get in on the conversation anyway ;)
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