[Openstack] [Glance] Images

Michael Lindner michael at tropyx.com
Fri Jun 5 01:06:22 UTC 2015


Cheers!


On 05/06/15 10:10, Mike Smith wrote:
> We use the Oz tool (see 
> http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_creating_images_automatically.html#oz) 
> to build images from scratch and then upload them to Glance.  We 
> actually have scripts in place to do both those things automatically 
> each month and it works great for us.
>
> Mike Smith
> Principal Engineer, Website Systems
> Overstock.com <http://Overstock.com>
>
>
>> On Jun 4, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> It is below.
>>
>> http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_creating_images_manually.html
>>
>> Best,
>> -jay
>>
>> On 06/04/2015 08:14 PM, Michael Lindner wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Michael Lindner <michael at tropyx.com>
>>> To: Muhammed Salehi <salehi1994 at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 9:41 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Glance Images
>>>
>>> Thanks for those suggestions, unfortunately I'm in a corporate
>>> environment where I am not able to just throw out images and software
>>> created by any random company and need to have admin teams build the SOE
>>> according to very rigid rules.
>>>
>>> Can I ask once more, in this context, perhaps directed more to the
>>> people who have very kindly contributed images so far, for suggestions
>>> on what to read.
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Muhammed Salehi <salehi1994 at gmail.com>
>>> To: Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
>>> Sent: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 6:44 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Glance Images
>>>
>>> I guess whom you want to create optimize images with minimum size in
>>> order to register them in glance, like official images size (e.g. Fedora
>>> image: ~151 MB ).
>>>
>>> However, you can't achieve that point of science until you don't know
>>> what is FileSystem and How does it works.
>>> Read about these:
>>>
>>>  * FileSystems
>>>      o Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, XFS, JFS, ZFS, UnixFS
>>>      o VFS, FUSE, inode, superblock
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Muhammed
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Unrelated to the Glance Images building thing, but Jose, I wanted to
>>>    point you to the Bifrost project, which does standalone Ironic with
>>>    Ansible :)
>>>
>>>    https://github.com/juliakreger/bifrost/blob/master/README.rst
>>>
>>>    Might be something you and Julia Kreger could collaborate on?
>>>
>>>    Best,
>>>    -jay
>>>
>>>    On 06/04/2015 09:16 AM, José Riguera López wrote:
>>>
>>>        Hi,
>>>
>>>        Have a look here:
>>>        http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_creating_images_manually.html
>>>
>>>        Also, I am creating some documentation (still not finished) and
>>>        I have
>>>        just written a small manual about howto create images for Ironic
>>>        (but
>>>        the process is quite similar):
>>>        https://github.com/jriguera/ansible-ironic-standalone/wiki/Creating-Images-Manually
>>>
>>>        Regards,
>>>
>>>        2015-06-04 14:34 GMT+02:00 Michael Lindner <michael at tropyx.com
>>>        <mailto:michael at tropyx.com>
>>>        <mailto:michael at tropyx.com <mailto:michael at tropyx.com>>>:
>>>
>>>             Does anyone have a link to best-practice image creation for
>>>             openstack glance?
>>>
>>>             Eg how to take a windows/linux install and turn it into a
>>>        usable
>>>             generic image to create instances from.
>>>
>>>             Thanks.
>>>
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