> -----Original Message----- > From: Devin Carlen [mailto:devin.car...@gmail.com] > Sent: 17 January 2011 20:08 > To: Jay Pipes > Cc: Thierry Carrez; Ewan Mellor; openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore > > > 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.
Devin, you lost me. Can't we make euca-upload-bundle work against Swift's S3 frontend? Why do you say that we need nova-objectstore? Ewan. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
