[Openstack] New Glance is worse than previous version... Specially API 2... Why?!

Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 17:38:31 UTC 2015


Thanks man! I'll take a look into this...  :-D

On 20 October 2015 at 09:58, Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:
> It actually is possible (and even possible to have multiple locations
> with the v2 API).
>
> http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2015/05/13/openstack-glance-use-multiple-location-for-an-image/
>
> Regarding image-update with name, this is something that happens at
> the client side, I suspect you're not getting the exact correct image
> name.
>
> "Unable to upload image data to an image which is active."
>
> We do something like this...
>
> $ glance image-create --architecture x86_64 --protected True --name
> "Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS" --visibility public --tags ubuntu precise latest
> --os-version 12.04.5 --disk-format qcow2 --os-distro ubuntu
> --container-format bare --property libvirt_use_agent=True
> <get the uuid>
> $ glance location-add --url http://.... <uuid>
>
> Note that I strongly suggest you do not add/remove locations once an
> image is used, because you might have cache issues (image would be
> cached on a compute host, so deploying after updating location might
> not result in a re-download).
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ
> <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Am I experimenting a problem that was introduced by this fix:
>>
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/136520/
>>
>> ???
>>
>> On 20 October 2015 at 04:13, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>>  I have an Ansible automation to deploy OpenStack Kilo, it works like
>>> a charm, specially the following playbook:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/sandvine/os-ansible-deployment-lite/blob/kilo/ansible/roles/glance/tasks/default-images.yml
>>>
>>>
>>>  In one shot, I can add remote images (Glance downloads on demand) and
>>> update its properties immediatly... But, new Glance lost all
>>> functionality that make this to work.
>>>
>>>  To begin with, OS_IMAGE_API version 2, doesn't have "--location"
>>> anymore... Why not? It is VERY useful. Please, bring it back. Or at
>>> least, document how to do the same when using API 2...
>>>
>>>  Also, new (API 2) "glance image-update" REQUIRES the Image ID, this
>>> sucks because it is much easier to use the Image Name instead...
>>>
>>>  So, I updated my Ansible playbook to deploy Liberty... But Glance
>>> doesn't work the way it should work...
>>>
>>>  For example, here...:
>>>
>>>
>>>  https://github.com/sandvine/os-ansible-deployment-lite/blob/liberty/ansible/roles/glance/tasks/default-images.yml
>>>
>>>
>>> ...I had to disable all "glance image-update" calls, because it simple
>>> doesn't work anymore, even using OS_IMAGE_API=1 !!!
>>>
>>>
>>>  Look what happens now:
>>>
>>> ....
>>> changed: [localhost] => (item=glance image-create --location
>>> http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.4/cirros-0.3.4-i386-disk.img
>>> --name "CirrOS 0.3.4 - Minimalist - 32-bit - Cloud Based Image"
>>> --is-public true --container-format bare --disk-format qcow2)
>>> ....
>>> failed: [localhost] => (item=glance image-update --property
>>> hw_scsi_model=virtio-scsi --property hw_disk_bus=scsi "CirrOS 0.3.4 -
>>> Minimalist - 32-bit - Cloud Based Image") => {"changed": true, "cmd":
>>> ["glance", "image-update", "--property", "hw_scsi_model=virtio-scsi",
>>> "--property", "hw_disk_bus=scsi", "CirrOS 0.3.4 - Minimalist - 32-bit
>>> - Cloud Based Image"], "delta": "0:00:00.898007", "end": "2015-10-20
>>> 01:10:03.837781", "item": "glance image-update --property
>>> hw_scsi_model=virtio-scsi --property hw_disk_bus=scsi \"CirrOS 0.3.4 -
>>> Minimalist - 32-bit - Cloud Based Image\"", "rc": 1, "start":
>>> "2015-10-20 01:10:02.939774", "warnings": []}
>>> stderr: Unable to upload image data to an image which is active.
>>> ....
>>>
>>> It is even more weird, because those two commands, that doesn't work
>>> when with Ansible, works manually... For example:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> #! /bin/bash
>>> source ~/admin-openrc.sh
>>> glance image-create --location
>>> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04.3/release/ubuntu-14.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
>>> --is-public true --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --name
>>> "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS - Trusty Tahr - 64-bit - Cloud Based Image"
>>> glance image-update --property hw_scsi_model=virtio-scsi --property
>>> hw_disk_bus=scsi "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS - Trusty Tahr - 64-bit - Cloud
>>> Based Image"
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Works! But only outside of Ansible...
>>>
>>> I triple checked everything (credentials that Ansible uses
>>> (ansible/group_vars/all), with the one that I source under Bash)...
>>> Maybe I am missing some typo again...    =)
>>>
>>> I appreciate any help!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Thiago
>>
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