In order to lock down components, it has been proposed that we offer an API on top of
conductor that exposes image management functionality (pretty much what is currently
offered by aeolus-image command line). This would mean that any client wanting to
manipulate objects would talk directly with conductor and go through conductor
authentication etc... This gives a central point of contact for image related tasks via
the conductor API and also hides the bits and pieces going on in the background, i.e. iwhd
and imagefactory, that really a user is not concerned about.
To recap the state of aeolus-image:
At the moment the rubygem aeolus-image that is used by conductor serves 2 purposes:
firstly, it acts as a client lib to iwhd (which conductor uses in the new catalogue
functionality); secondly it holds all the logic for the CLI.
So as it stands, we need to:
1) Rip out the object model (iwhd client part) of aeolus-image and place it in a new
rubygem; this will serve solely as a client lib rubygem for iwhd and imagefactory called
"aeolus-image-resource" (or another better name)
2) Add imagefactory interaction to the iwhd/imagefactory client lib rubygem -
aeolus-image-resource.
This will interface with the new ImageFactory REST API, and will be used to create
builds and push images etc... using the same object model that is currently in place
inside aeolus-image, which is used for interfacing with iwhd. This will also replace code
that talks to the imagefactorys qmf interface which is in the aeolus-image CLI code.
3) Add to the current REST API in conductor, to add in the extra resources we need:
images
builds
target_images
provider_images
This probably just consists of wrapping the aeolus-image-resource calls in the
relevant controllers.
4) Update the aeolus-image command libraries to talk directly to conductor API, hopefully
using ActiceResource.
5) Add certificate authentication to aeolus-image.
6) Add aeolus-image configuration in conductor, rather than in ~/.aeolus-image, (we
probably want to use configure to set this up)
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