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That would be great!

Sorry for being rude, I'm gonna try to auto-generate the ID from now on...

Thanks!

On 20 February 2016 at 00:53, Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think you’re being a bit extreme to just use the terms you’ve used
> to describe the API.  A lot of people worked on this to make it ideal,
> and while it’s made life a bit harder, it’s actually made the system
> more robust.  You can fallback to the V1 api if you really can’t
> retrieve the ID.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/dev/50406
>
> This can be solved by one simple thing:
>
> glance image-create .. | fgrep ‘| id’ | awk ‘{ print $4 }'
>
>
> If it’s really an issue, you can actually create a image with your own
> UUID.
>
> Thanks,
> Mohammed
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ
> <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> >  I want to formalize my protest against Glance V2 usability.
> >
> >  With Glance V1, you can straight away, add an image based on its remote
> URL
> > location, then, Glance will download the image ONLY when someone launch
> it.
> >
> >  This is very cool and I can add, easily and automatically by Ansible,
> for
> > example, dozens of images at once, right after deploying OpenStack.
> >
> >  However, this is much worse now, when with Glance V2, as follows:
> >
> > -----
> > *** Glance V1 procedure:
> >
> >  1) Add an image and its remote location at once:
> >
> >  glance image-create --location
> >
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/8.3.0/debian-8.3.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > --is-public true --name "Debian 8.3.0 - Jessie - 64-bit - Cloud Based
> Image"
> > --container-format bare --disk-format qcow2
> >
> >  See it? Glance V1 is awesome!
> >
> > --
> >
> > *** Glance V2 procedure:
> >
> >  1) Add an Image WITHOUT a location:
> >
> >  glance image-create --visibility public --name \"Debian 8.3.0 - Jessie -
> > 64-bit - Cloud Based Image\" --container-format bare --disk-format qcow2
> >
> >  2) Look (or parse somehow) the stdout, copy to clipboad the Image ID.
> >
> >  3) Add the location of the image:
> >
> >  glance location-add --url
> >
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/8.3.0/debian-8.3.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > $PASTE_IMAGE_ID
> >
> >  See it? Glance V2 sucks.
> > -----
> >
> >  It is more complicated now, specially to automate this with Ansible or
> > other tool! Because there is a need to parser the stdout of step "1" and
> > store the Image ID somewhere (like a variable), and then, add the remote
> > location URL for the image.
> >
> >  Please guys, do something about this!
> >
> >  NOTE: I will be happy to be wrong here, let me know if I am missing
> > something.
> >
> >  I believe that, if the "glance location-add" starts to accept "image
> name"
> > (instead of only ID), it will make the automation easier, because the
> name
> > is predictable, and the ID is random. Or, if someone tells me how to
> > auto-generate random IDs for OpenStack, so it will be predictable (I'll
> be
> > able to use auto-genarated ID with "image-create", I believe), then, it
> will
> > also make the automation easier, I'll be okay with that too!
> >
> >  Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thiago
> >
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