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.
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. Ewan. -----Original Message----- From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez Sent: 17 January 2011 14:32 To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore Hello everyone, The objectstore in nova is still alive in Bexar. The long term plan seems to be to get rid of it: it's still using eventlet and Glance is now covering most of its featureset. It is probably too late to remove it for Bexar, but we need to have a plan for Cactus. IIUC the objectstore still provides an easy way to do EC2-style image upload/registration. To do it with Glance, AFAICT you need to use an S3 backend (Swift with the S3 frontend or Amazon's S3 itself). That sounds a bit overkill, so does that mean we need a basic "S3-like service" to cover for that use case ? Should it be provided by Glance and reuse Glance filesystem backend, or be done outside Glance and reuse the S3 backend ? Thoughts ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
