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[Glen Campbell <glen.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I posted a Blueprint yesterday with a requirement for some general-purpose
filters for listing images:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/query-filters

These are needed at Rackspace to meet feature parity with our current
systems. We need to be able to create various subsets of image
collections, and IMHO it makes more sense to do this on the server side
than at the client.

For example, we want a customer to get a list of their images for
restoring from a backup.

For our managed customers, we need to select only base images that have a
"managed cloud" flag set in the metadata.

We need to be able to set a "minimum RAM" requirement on certain images
and validate that the requested VM is large enough to hold them.

Some of this may already be in Glance, but I'm not that familiar with it
(and trying to get up to speed).


On 4/12/11 1:11 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>We're in the planning stages for Diablo now, working on putting
>together blueprints, which turn into sessions at the design summit.
>
>I know the Glance team is small and our project narrow in scope, but
>it would be great to get some feedback from the list about stuff you'd
>like to see included in Glance in the Diablo release.
>
>Some possible thoughts:
>
>* Authn/authz - This is a big one, but dependent on the overall
>discussion of federated auth going on in the Nova/Swift communities.
>Glance will merely follow suit with what Nova does most likely.
>* Image conversion. This actually already has a blueprint, but maybe
>good for a detailed discussion at the summit? See
>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/image-file-conversion
>* Metrics - for instance, tracking operations performed (read/write,
>bytes out/in, ?) Would this even be useful?
>* Integration with more backend storage systems?
>* XML support in the API?
>* Having Glance "understand" what is contained in the disk images by
>inspecting them on upload?
>* A Glance dashboard app?
>
>Please feel free to expand on any of the above and add any suggestions
>you have on the future direction of Glance. Your input is truly
>appreciated.
>
>Cheers!
>jay
>
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