[openstack-dev] [glance]
Jay Pipes
jaypipes at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 23:08:47 UTC 2014
On 10/27/2014 06:18 PM, Jesse Cook wrote:
> In the glance mini-summit there was a request for some documentation on
> the architecture ideas I was discussing relating to: 1) removing data
> consistency as a concern for glance 2) bootstraping vs baking VMs
>
> Here's a rough draft: https://gist.github.com/CrashenX/8fc6d42ffc154ae0682b
Hi Jesse!
A few questions for you, since I wasn't at the mini-summit and I think
don't have a lot of the context necessary here...
1) In the High-Level Architecture diagram, I see Glance Middleware
components calling to a "Router" component. Could you elaborate what
this Router component is, in relation to what components currently exist
in Glance and Nova? For instance, is the Router kind of like the
existing Glance Registry component? Or is it something more like the
nova.image.download modules in Nova? Or something entirely different?
2) The Glance Middleware. Do you mean WSGI middleware here? Or are you
referring to something more like the existing nova.image.api module that
serves as a shim over the Glance server communication?
3) Images in Glance are already immutable, once the image bytes are
actually uploaded to a backend block store. What conceptual differences
are you introducing with the idea of object immutability?
4) How does the glance_store library play into your ideas, if at all?
5) How does the existing "image locations" collection in the Glance v2
API work with your ideas? With an image uploaded to multiple locations
(in Swift, Ceph clusters, wherever...), is the Router object in your
architecture the thing that determines affinity for the best
storage-locality to pull data from?
All the best,
-jay
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