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On 22/10/14 14:40, James Slagle wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
>> So Tuskar would be a part of that deployment cloud, and would ask you
>> things about your hardware, your desired configuration, and help you
>> get the inventory loaded.
>>
>> So, ideally our gate would leave the images we test as part of the
>> artifacts for build, and we could just distribute those as part of each
>> release. That probably wouldn't be too hard to do, but those images
>> aren't exactly small so I would want to have some kind of strategy for
>> distributing them and limiting the unique images users are exposed to so
>> we're not encouraging people to run CD by downloading each commit's image.
> 
> I think the downloadable images would be great. We've done such a
> thing for RDO.  And (correct me if I'm wrong), but I think the Helion
> community distro does so as well? If that's the use case that seems to
> work well downstream, it'd be nice to have a similar model upstream as
> well.

There has been a patch hanging around for some time to retrieve images
and use them for a deployment. https://review.openstack.org/#/c/85130/

I rebased it one week ago, but apparently needs a new one. Will do today.

Ghe Rivero