[Openstack] Why Image upload functionality is not there in Horizon ?

Brian Waldon bcwaldon at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 14:34:56 UTC 2012


Even being able to add images while providing an external location would be useful. You could depend on your user to put it in swift or s3 and just provide a uri that references it.

On Aug 9, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Gabriel Hurley wrote:

> Indeed, uploading large files with the Horizon webserver as an intermediate relay is a nasty business which we want to discourage. We are looking at ways to send files directly from the Horizon client-side UI to swift/glance for large file upload in the future.
> 
> All the best,
> 
>    - Gabriel
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net
>> [mailto:openstack-
>> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jay
>> Pipes
>> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:43 AM
>> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Why Image upload functionality is not there in
>> Horizon ?
>> 
>> On 08/09/2012 02:35 AM, Sajith Kariyawasam wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> After playing around with Openstack Mangement Console, Horizon, I
>>> realize that the image upload functionality is not provided there.
>>> 
>>> Is there any special reason for that? Is it because there are no Rest
>>> services available at the moment? or else is it felt that providing
>>> image upload via the UI is not practically important?
>> 
>> Probably because sending 20G Windows image files through a web form
>> interface isn't very efficient ;)
>> 
>> It's also not something a "regular user" of Glance/Nova would do -- and
>> system administrators won't do it very often, and when they do, they'll use
>> the glance CLI tool to do it.
>> 
>> Best,
>> -jay
>> 
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