On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: >> Jay Pipes wrote: >>> 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... > > Precisely. This is why nova-objectstore cannot be removed even if > Glance supports S3 as a backend :) > >> 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 ? > > Depends on whether supporting euca-upload-bundle is going to be a > priority once alternate openstack-API-speaking client tools are > completed... :) > > My guess is that it won't, and nova-objectstore will eventually move > into /ext or /plugin for those who will want to continue using > euca-upload-bundle directly.
I tend to disagree with this. Anyone who is using eucatools is going to want to use euca-upload-bundle. This is something we should continue to support. Not supporting euca-upload-bundle means we don't have a fully compatible EC2 implementation. > > -jay > > _______________________________________________ > 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
