[openstack-dev] Blueprint for Nova native image building

Noorul Islam Kamal Malmiyoda noorul at noorul.com
Wed Aug 7 01:21:34 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Ian Mcleod <imcleod at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> A blueprint has been registered regarding API additions to Nova to
> enable the creation of base images from external OS install sources.
> This provides a way to build images from scratch via native OS installer
> tools using only the resources provided through Nova.  These images can
> then be further customized by other tools that expect an existing image
> as an input, such as disk image builder.
>
> Blueprint -
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/base-image-creation
>
> Specification - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaImageCreationAPI
>
> If this is a topic that interests you, please have a look (the spec is
> not very long) and join the conversation.
>
> Please note that this blueprint follows on from proof of concept work
> for native image building discussed on this list in April:
>
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007157.html
>
>
In one of the cloud product that I work on has same feature and when I
looked at OpenStack I was thinking why we should rely on third party tool
for this and do not have OpenStack backed solution.

I think I can help to add autoyast. I have not tried this tool yet. I will
try it and let you know.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul
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