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Hi Martinx,

Thanks for your feedback. You're not the only person to have been affected.

The (lack of) backwards compatibilty of the v2 CLI is captured here:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Glance-v2-v1-client-compatability

A small number of these incompatabilities are due to unmaskable differences
between the v2 and v1 APIs, but most (like image-create --location) are not.

-Stuart

On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Martinx - ジェームズ 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