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Lots of good discussion on this topic.   One thing I would like to point 
out is that we get feedback that OpenStack has too many projects as it is 
and customers get confused on how much of OpenStack they need to install. 
So in the spirit of trying to help insure OpenStack does not continue to 
reinforce this perception, I am hoping that Heater functionality finds a 
home in either Glance or Heat.  I don't have a preference of which. Either 
of these is superior to starting a new project if it can be avoided.

Thanks,

Brad

Brad Topol, Ph.D.
IBM Distinguished Engineer
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From:   Randall Burt <randall.burt at RACKSPACE.COM>
To:     "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date:   12/05/2013 12:09 PM
Subject:        Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] [glance] Heater Proposal



On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com>
 wrote:

> Excerpts from Monty Taylor's message of 2013-12-04 17:54:45 -0800:
>> Why not just use glance?
>> 
> 
> I've asked that question a few times, and I think I can collate the
> responses I've received below. I think enhancing glance to do these
> things is on the table:
> 
> 1. Glance is for big blobs of data not tiny templates.
> 2. Versioning of a single resource is desired.
> 3. Tagging/classifying/listing/sorting
> 4. Glance is designed to expose the uploaded blobs to nova, not users
> 
> My responses:
> 
> 1: Irrelevant. Smaller things will fit in it just fine.

Fitting is one thing, optimizations around particular assumptions about 
the size of data and the frequency of reads/writes might be an issue, but 
I admit to ignorance about those details in Glance.

> 2: The swift API supports versions. We could also have git as a
> backend. This feels like something we can add as an optional feature
> without exploding Glance's scope and I imagine it would actually be a
> welcome feature for image authors as well. Think about Ubuntu 
maintaining
> official images. If they can keep the ID the same and just add a version
> (allowing users to lock down to a version if updated images cause issue)
> that seems like a really cool feature for images _and_ templates.

Agreed, though one could argue that using image names and looking up ID's 
or just using ID's as appropriate "sort of" handle this use case, but I 
agree that having image versioning seems a reasonable feature for Glance 
to have as well.

> 3: I'm sure glance image users would love to have those too.

And image metadata is already there so we don't have to go through those 
discussions all over again ;).

> 4: Irrelevant. Heat will need to download templates just like nova, and
> making images publicly downloadable is also a thing in glance.

Yeah, this was the kicker for me. I'd been thinking of adding the 
tenancy/public/private templates use case to the HeatR spec and realized 
that this was a good argument for Glance since it already has this 
feature.

> It strikes me that this might be a silo problem instead of an
> actual design problem. Folk should not be worried about jumping into
> Glance and adding features. Unless of course the Glance folk have
> reservations? (adding glance tag to the subject)

Perhaps, and if these use cases make sense for the Glance users in 
general, I wouldn't want to re-invent all those wheels either. I admit 
there's some appeal to being able to pass a template ID to stack-create or 
as the type of a provider resource and have an actual API to call that's 
already got a known, tested client that's already part of the OpenStack 
ecosystem

In the end, though, even if some and not all of our use cases make sense 
for the Glance folks, we still have the option of creating the HeatR 
service and having Glance as a possible back-end data store.

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