ImageFactory in OpenStack PoC Video

[Martyn Taylor]

Gentlemen,

After watching Steven Hardy's OpenStack talk at the aeolus developer 
conference, I decided I like the whole OpenStack idea and decided to 
spend a little time digging a big deeper.  One thing I noticed was that 
OpenStack was missing was key piece: Image Building functionality.  
Something we already have in Aeolus through the use of ImageFactory.

After some work with Steven and too many hours of hacking and video 
editing, we managed to create a demo - a proof of concept to show how we 
can integrate ImageFactory with OpenStack to add in Image Building.  The 
result of which is a video and some repositories that will let you try 
out a limited version.

The video can be found here (it's only 6 mins): 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk&feature=youtu.be

I also quickly wrote a getting started: 
https://github.com/mtaylor/horizon/tree/master/imagefactory-setup You 
can ask me for more info if you get stuck.

I will be sending this stuff round the OpenStack mailing list later 
today.  I'm hoping this will help us in our fight to generate a 
community (OpenStack have near 7000 strong communtiy).

If the idea is well recieved we aim to create a proper OpenStack plugin 
and tweak factory a little to fit in better with OpenStack. If you want 
to get involved in the project let me know, this is something we've been 
working on in our spare time so the more fingers and toes  the better.

Regards

Martyn

[Tomas Sedovic]

On 12/11/2012 11:25 AM, Martyn Taylor wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> After watching Steven Hardy's OpenStack talk at the aeolus developer
> conference, I decided I like the whole OpenStack idea and decided to
> spend a little time digging a big deeper.  One thing I noticed was that
> OpenStack was missing was key piece: Image Building functionality. 
> Something we already have in Aeolus through the use of ImageFactory.
>
> After some work with Steven and too many hours of hacking and video
> editing, we managed to create a demo - a proof of concept to show how we
> can integrate ImageFactory with OpenStack to add in Image Building.  The
> result of which is a video and some repositories that will let you try
> out a limited version.
>
> The video can be found here (it's only 6 mins):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk&feature=youtu.be
>
> I also quickly wrote a getting started:
> https://github.com/mtaylor/horizon/tree/master/imagefactory-setup You
> can ask me for more info if you get stuck.
>
> I will be sending this stuff round the OpenStack mailing list later
> today.  I'm hoping this will help us in our fight to generate a
> community (OpenStack have near 7000 strong communtiy).
>
> If the idea is well recieved we aim to create a proper OpenStack plugin
> and tweak factory a little to fit in better with OpenStack. If you want
> to get involved in the project let me know, this is something we've been
> working on in our spare time so the more fingers and toes  the better.

Hey Martyn,

This is fantastic. I do agree this is potentially very interesting to
the OpenStack community. And it would be great for Image Factory if they
had more than one user, too. That's the whole point of making this stuff
modular.

This may be something worth putting on our blog/twitter/etc. Do you want
to do that? If you're too busy, I (or anyone else) can do a short write-up.

Thomas
> Regards
>
> Martyn
>
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[Dave Neary]

Hi,

Great stuff Martyn! I just tweeted this - it looks like a worthwhile 
addition to the OpenStack family.

I wonder, is there a way to make template creation easier? Is that what 
TIM does?

Cheers,
Dave.

On 12/11/2012 11:25 AM, Martyn Taylor wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> After watching Steven Hardy's OpenStack talk at the aeolus developer
> conference, I decided I like the whole OpenStack idea and decided to
> spend a little time digging a big deeper.  One thing I noticed was that
> OpenStack was missing was key piece: Image Building functionality.
> Something we already have in Aeolus through the use of ImageFactory.
>
> After some work with Steven and too many hours of hacking and video
> editing, we managed to create a demo - a proof of concept to show how we
> can integrate ImageFactory with OpenStack to add in Image Building.  The
> result of which is a video and some repositories that will let you try
> out a limited version.
>
> The video can be found here (it's only 6 mins):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk&feature=youtu.be
>
> I also quickly wrote a getting started:
> https://github.com/mtaylor/horizon/tree/master/imagefactory-setup You
> can ask me for more info if you get stuck.
>
> I will be sending this stuff round the OpenStack mailing list later
> today.  I'm hoping this will help us in our fight to generate a
> community (OpenStack have near 7000 strong communtiy).
>
> If the idea is well recieved we aim to create a proper OpenStack plugin
> and tweak factory a little to fit in better with OpenStack. If you want
> to get involved in the project let me know, this is something we've been
> working on in our spare time so the more fingers and toes  the better.
>
> Regards
>
> Martyn
>
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[Tomas Sedovic]

On 12/11/2012 03:02 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Great stuff Martyn! I just tweeted this - it looks like a worthwhile
> addition to the OpenStack family.
>
> I wonder, is there a way to make template creation easier? Is that what
> TIM does?

Hi Dave,

TIM makes Image Factory easier to integrate with Rails apps (such as
Aeolus Conductor).

As far as I'm aware, there is no way of creating the templates other
than writing them by hand.

Though if I recall correctly, Jaromir Coufal is designing UI for
building templates and deployables in Aeolus Conductor.

Maybe that could be extracted to a standalone tool/service afterwards.

Thomas
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> On 12/11/2012 11:25 AM, Martyn Taylor wrote:
> > Gentlemen,
> >
> > After watching Steven Hardy's OpenStack talk at the aeolus developer
> > conference, I decided I like the whole OpenStack idea and decided to
> > spend a little time digging a big deeper.  One thing I noticed was that
> > OpenStack was missing was key piece: Image Building functionality.
> > Something we already have in Aeolus through the use of ImageFactory.
> >
> > After some work with Steven and too many hours of hacking and video
> > editing, we managed to create a demo - a proof of concept to show how we
> > can integrate ImageFactory with OpenStack to add in Image Building.  The
> > result of which is a video and some repositories that will let you try
> > out a limited version.
> >
> > The video can be found here (it's only 6 mins):
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBM4HA3QUk&feature=youtu.be
> >
> > I also quickly wrote a getting started:
> > https://github.com/mtaylor/horizon/tree/master/imagefactory-setup You
> > can ask me for more info if you get stuck.
> >
> > I will be sending this stuff round the OpenStack mailing list later
> > today.  I'm hoping this will help us in our fight to generate a
> > community (OpenStack have near 7000 strong communtiy).
> >
> > If the idea is well recieved we aim to create a proper OpenStack plugin
> > and tweak factory a little to fit in better with OpenStack. If you want
> > to get involved in the project let me know, this is something we've been
> > working on in our spare time so the more fingers and toes  the better.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> > aeolus-comm-mgmt mailing list
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> > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/aeolus-comm-mgmt