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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:04:06AM -0500, Sean McGinnis wrote:
> Just updating the subject line tag to glance. ;)

Errr, sorry, but no, this is for a Nova image backend (yes, namespace
overload, I know) - the driver that lets a Nova host create "local"
images for non-volume-backed instances.

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 05:33:30PM +0200, Peter Penchev wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A couple of years ago I created a Nova spec for the StorPool image
> > backend: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/137830/  There was some
> > discussion, but then our company could not immediately allocate the
> > resources to write the driver itself, so the spec languished and was
> > eventually abandoned.
> > 
> > Now that StorPool has a fully maintained Cinder driver and also a
> > fully maintained Nova volume attachment driver, both included in the
> > Queens release, and a Cinder third-party CI that runs all the tests
> > tagged with "volume", including some simple Nova tests, we'd like to
> > resurrect this spec and implement a Nova image backend, too.
> > Actually, it looks like due to customer demand we will write the
> > driver anyway and possibly maintain it outside the tree, but it would
> > be preferable (and, obviously, easier to catch up with wide-ranging
> > changes) to have it in.
> > 
> > Would there be any major opposition to adding a StorPool shared
> > storage image backend, so that our customers are not limited to
> > volume-backed instances?  Right now, creating a StorPool volume and
> > snapshot from a Glance image and then booting instances from that
> > snapshot works great, but in some cases, including some provisioning
> > and accounting systems on top of OpenStack, it would be preferable to
> > go the Nova way and let the hypervisor think that it has a local(ish)
> > image to work with, even though it's on shared storage anyway.  This
> > will go hand-in-hand with our planned Glance image driver, so that
> > creating a new instance from a Glance image would happen
> > instantaneously (create a StorPool volume from the StorPool snapshot
> > corresponding to the Glance image).
> > 
> > If this will help the decision, we do have plans for adding a
> > full-blown Nova third-party CI in the near future, so that both our
> > volume attachment driver, this driver, and our upcoming Glance image
> > driver will see some more testing.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!

Best regards,
Peter