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On 05/20/2016 01:03 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Erno Kuvaja's message of 2016-05-20 13:20:11 +0100:
>>
>> The only reliable way to create Glance images for consumption in general
>> manner is to make sure that we use the normal workflows (currently
>> uploading the image to Glance and in future the supported manners of Image
>> Import) and let Glance and Glance only to deal with it's backends.
>>
> 
> Sounds good to me, Glance needs to be the gateway for images, not
> anything else.
> 
> I wonder if the shade library would be useful here.
> 
> If Heat were to use shade, which hides the complexities of not only
> v1 vs v2, but also v2 with import vs. v2 with upload through glance,
> then one could have a fairly generic image type.
> 
> Ansible has done this, which is quite nice, because now ansible users
> can be confident that whatever OpenStack cloud they're interacting with,
> they can just use the os_image module with the same arguments.
> 
> Anyway, if shade isn't used, Heat will need to do something similar,
> which is to provide template users a way to port their templates to the
> API's available. Perhaps the provider template system could be used so
> each Heat operator can provide a single "image upload" template snippet
> that gets used.

Go look at create_image in shade and then all of the different
sub-methods that calls and you'll get a ood sense of all of the edge cases

> That would bring on a second question, which is how does one even upload
> a large file to Heat. This is non-trivial, and I think the only way Heat
> can reasonably support this is by handing the user a Swift tempurl in
> the create/update stack API whenever a file is referenced. That swift
> object would then be used by the engine to proxy that file into glance if
> import isn't supported, or if it is, to tell glance where to import from.
> 
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