[Openstack-docs] OpenStack Image Guide

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Thu Apr 11 02:49:27 UTC 2013


Inline...


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca> wrote:

> I just gave this a quick build and read and I think it's great.
>
> I have a bunch of notes on building Windows images that I need to collect
> and this book would be a great place to add them.
>
>
That would be wonderful, we could really use better docs on how to build
Windows images.




> Do you think this book would be the appropriate place to talk about how
> image downloading and caching to the compute nodes is handled? Another
> thing on my to-do list is to review the caching/cleanup system and see how
> exactly the Grizzly implementation works differently than Folsom (and then
> document it).
>
> Also, what about Glance-specific topics such as replicating images to
> other Glance servers, configuring Glance for S3, configuring Glance for
> rabbit notifications, etc.
>
> Or should this book be strictly for building images?
>
>
I was thinking this book would strictly be about building images. I suggest
putting the content that you're describing in the "Image Management"
Chapter of the Compute Admin guide.


Lorin



>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I just posted a WIP draft of a new manual, an "Image Guide", about how to
>> do things like create new images from scratch or modify existing images.
>> It's something I've always wanted but never existed.
>>
>> https://review.openstack.org/26624
>>
>>
>> This would obsolete a lot of the current in the OpenStack Compute Admin
>> guide on images, so that would eventually get zapped.
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lorin Hochstein
>> Lead Architect - Cloud Services
>> Nimbis Services, Inc.
>> www.nimbisservices.com
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>
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com
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