[openstack-dev] Image Building in OpenStack - PoC Video
Jay Pipes
jaypipes at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 18:00:54 UTC 2012
On 12/11/2012 12:04 PM, Martyn Taylor wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After a meeting in Brno a few weeks back I met up with a fellow
> RedHat colleague Steven Hardy, who is working on a project called
> Heat (an OpenStack incubator project). After watching his
> presentation on OpenStack and then later his talk about Heat at the
> EMEA OpenStack day we got chatting, and the subject of Image
> Building in OpenStack came up.
>
> The project I currently work on, "Aeolus" has a suite of tools for
> managing federated clouds. One of the tools we've created is called
> Imagefactory and is designed specifically to allow automated
> building, converting and uploading of images to a number of Cloud
> providers. We decided it would be worthwhile to get together and
> try to integrate the two projects, since Imagefactory had recently
> gained a provider plugin for OpenStack.
>
> The result of this experiment is a proof of concept that we pulled
> together in a few days. We put together a video that demo's the
> thing in action. You can view it here (it's only around 6mins).
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk
Very, very nice, Martyn!
> We'd be interested to see what other users think of this. We aim to
> create a horizon plugin that should be easily included in existing
> OpenStack installations. We'd love to get feedback from you guys.
Yes, yes, yes. Can't wait to see the code! :)
> Is this something you would find useful?
> Can you envisage this fitting into your current processes?
Absolutely.
> Hopefully this can provide a starting point to discuss image-building
> requirements for OpenStack, which will provide valuable input to the
> Imagefactory team, who are interested in adding further, more scalable
> support for OpenStack to Imagefactory
What are the current scalability limitations you are experiencing?
Perhaps I can contribute some work there...
Best,
-jay
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