[Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Thu Apr 26 13:10:45 UTC 2012


Broader question: what's the best place to capture this information? 

Right now, there's a chapter in the OpenStack Compute Admin Guide about images, but I'm tempted to break out a new document dedicated to creating and obtaining appropriate images that are compatible with OpenStack (or, more specifically, with OpenStack-supported hypervisors), and have that be accessible on docs.openstack.org. We could use the wiki, but I'm afraid most users wouldn't find it there, and this is a pretty critical issue for new users.

Unless 

Take care,

Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com





On Apr 26, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Michael Basnight wrote:

> In reddwarf for development we use Ubuntu-vm-builder. It works like a charm for creating qcow2 images. 
> 
> Sent from my digital shackles. 
> 
> On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Justin Santa Barbara <justin at fathomdb.com> wrote:
> 
>> How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?  The official documentation describes a manual process (boot VM with ISO), which is sub-optimal in terms of repeatability / automation / etc.  I'm hoping we can do better!
>> 
>> I posted how I do it on my blog, here: http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2012/04/25/creating-an-openstack-image/
>> 
>> Please let me know the many ways in which I'm doing it wrong :-) 
>> 
>> I'm thinking we can have a discussion here, and then I can then compile the responses into a wiki page and/or a nice script...
>> 
>> Justin
>> 
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