[Openstack] Enhancements to Glance in Diablo? Input welcomed

Ewan Mellor Ewan.Mellor at eu.citrix.com
Thu Apr 14 08:09:14 UTC 2011


How about QA?  Is this something that you'd want to consider specifically for Glance?  It's the newest of our services, and the smallest team, so I think that it's worthwhile explicitly blocking out some time to look at automated testing in an integrated environment.  Given the size of the images involved, it won't take much to put some serious stress on Glance, so some scalability / stress testing would be really valuable.

Cheers,

Ewan.


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> On Behalf Of Jay Pipes
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> Subject: [Openstack] Enhancements to Glance in Diablo? Input welcomed
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> We're in the planning stages for Diablo now, working on putting
> together blueprints, which turn into sessions at the design summit.
> 
> I know the Glance team is small and our project narrow in scope, but
> it would be great to get some feedback from the list about stuff you'd
> like to see included in Glance in the Diablo release.
> 
> Some possible thoughts:
> 
> * Authn/authz - This is a big one, but dependent on the overall
> discussion of federated auth going on in the Nova/Swift communities.
> Glance will merely follow suit with what Nova does most likely.
> * Image conversion. This actually already has a blueprint, but maybe
> good for a detailed discussion at the summit? See
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/image-file-conversion
> * Metrics - for instance, tracking operations performed (read/write,
> bytes out/in, ?) Would this even be useful?
> * Integration with more backend storage systems?
> * XML support in the API?
> * Having Glance "understand" what is contained in the disk images by
> inspecting them on upload?
> * A Glance dashboard app?
> 
> Please feel free to expand on any of the above and add any suggestions
> you have on the future direction of Glance. Your input is truly
> appreciated.
> 
> Cheers!
> jay
> 
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