[Openstack] Using glance to upload/add??
Jay Pipes
jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 20:59:44 UTC 2012
You got it.
Specifically...
https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/glance/api/v1/images.py#L370
Best,
jay
On 04/05/2012 04:56 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Cool, so glance internally does some lookup of ‘X-Image-Meta-Store’ and
> this will over-ride the default_store?
>
> -Josh
>
> On 4/5/12 1:16 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Heya! Answers inline. :)
>
> On 04/05/2012 02:38 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was looking at the glance add command and I am trying to figure out
> > how to use it to upload images to locations other than the
> > “default_store = file”
> >
> > How does one go about telling it which store should be used.
>
> You can pass the X-Image-Meta-Store: header to one of "swift", "s3", or
> "rds". Unfortunately, this is not supported in the glance CLI tool right
> now. You could add a quick hack that adds the X-Image-Meta-Store header
> to the features variable. Something like this git diff shows...
>
> diff --git a/bin/glance b/bin/glance
> index 9eb68ae..f298cce 100755
> --- a/bin/glance
> +++ b/bin/glance
> @@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ EXAMPLES
> 'min_ram': fields.pop('min_ram', 0),
> }
>
> + alternate_store = fields.pop('store', None)
> +
> for format in ['disk_format', 'container_format']:
> if format in fields:
> image_meta[format] = fields.pop(format)
> @@ -260,6 +262,9 @@ EXAMPLES
> # otherwise error out
> image_data = sys.stdin
>
> + if alternate_store:
> + features['X-Image-Meta-Store'] = alternate_store
> +
> # allow owner to be set when image is created
> if 'owner' in fields.keys():
> image_meta['owner'] = fields.pop('owner')
>
> and try that :)
>
> If it works out, feel free to contribute the patch to Glance ;)
>
> > It seems like there is a /location /option, but that is the fully
> > specified location, and I am unsure about that since the function that
> > eventually gets called in these storage objects doesn't
> have/receive that.
> >
> > def add(self, image_id, image_file, image_size):
> >
> > Is it expected that people will only add to locations that use the
> > default_store?
>
> No, but it hasn't been something that users have clamoured for up until
> now -- mostly because people standing up Glance are typically standing
> it up with some default store and only storing images using that store.
> But the "plumbing" is there to support this. as mentioned above.
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
> > Might be nice to actually be able to specify that, and resort to the
> > default_store if its not provided (thus the reason its called
> default).
> >
> > Thx!
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> >
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