On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Devin Carlen <devin.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Then we should move nova/objectstore/* into /nova/api/ec2 since it will never be used for anything openstack API-related, at the very least... -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
