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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe termie is working on a simple wrapper that will replicate the upload-bundle (s3-like storage) and register-image (decrypt bundle and store it) features of objectstore so that it can back to glance properly, as well as removing the twisted code.  I think those particular features are probably better as a little facade in front of glance, since they are solely for compatibiilty with ec2.  AFAIK he is just in the prototype phase thus far.  Hopefully he can contribute something to this discussion.

Vish

On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> Jay Pipes wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> We could do it in two steps.  You could set up nova-compute -> Glance -> nova-objectstore (testing purposes only).  This would allow us to remove the S3 code from Nova, but people could still use nova-objectstore if they don't want to set up Swift.
>> 
>> This is already done in Bexar, as Chris MacGown completed the S3
>> backend for Glance. What is NOT the same, though, is that people would
>> not be speaking the s3 API as they do now... they would speak the
>> Glance REST-like API instead... Plus, objects are a superset of
>> images; Glance only stores images, not all objects...
>> 
>>> Incidentally, it's also possible for Glance to use a local filesystem rather than a remote store at all.  This is perfectly reasonable for small setups.
>> 
>> I think the big difference is that clients would be talking to Glance
>> and its RESTlike/JSON API, not to an S3 API front-end like
>> nova-objectstore.
>> 
>> The big question is whether OpenStack wants to support Amazon S3 as an
>> objectstore at all, instead of just Swift, which now can communicate
>> via an S3 API (http://swift.openstack.org/misc.html#module-swift.common.middleware.swift3).
> 
> OK, my understanding was that euca-upload-bundle is talking directly to
> an S3-like backend, so if we want to support "the EC2 way of registering
> images" we need some S3-compatible server...
> 
> For serious deployments I guess we would use Swift S3 frontend. For demo
> cases, do we need a simpler solution ? And if yes, which one ?
> 
> -- 
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
> 
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