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

John Postlethwait john.postlethwait at nebula.com
Sun Aug 19 19:51:36 UTC 2012


Brian, Everyone Else,

I added that in Folsom. You can create images if the actual image file is hosted elsewhere (not a local upload through the UI.)  Here is a screenshot for the functionality: http://i.imgur.com/mYYV0.png

John Postlethwait
Nebula, Inc.
206-999-4492


On Friday, August 10, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Brian Waldon wrote:

> 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:nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net)
> > > [mailto:openstack-
> > > bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net (mailto: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 (mailto: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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