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>> I've been looking into the existing task-based-upload that Doug mentions:
>> can anyone clarify the following?
>>
>> On a default devstack install you can do this 'task' call:
>>
>> http://paste.openstack.org/show/462919
>
> Yup. That's the one.
>
>> as an alternative to the traditional image upload (the bytes are streamed
>> from the URL).
>>
>> It's not clear to me if this is just an interesting example of the kind
>> of operator specific thing you can configure tasks to do, or a real
>> attempt to define an alternative way to upload images.
>>
>> The change which added it [1] calls it a 'sample'.
>>
>> Is it just an example, or is it a second 'official' upload path?
>
> It's how you have to upload images on Rackspace.

Ok, so Rackspace have a task called image_import. But it seems to take
different json input than the devstack version. (A Swift container/object
rather than a URL.)

That seems to suggest that tasks really are operator specific, that there
is no standard task based upload ... and it should be ok to try
again with a clean slate.

> If you want to see the
> full fun:
>
> https://github.com/openstack-infra/shade/blob/master/shade/__init__.py#L1335-L1510
>
> Which is "I want to upload an image to an OpenStack Cloud"
>
> I've listed it on this slide in CLI format too:
>
> http://inaugust.com/talks/product-management/index.html#/27
>
> It should be noted that once you create the task, you need to poll the
> task with task-show, and then the image id will be in the completed
> task-show output.
>
> Monty