Cloud image lifetimes

[Ryan Brown]

On 03/19/2015 08:54 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> On 03/18/2015 06:38 PM, David Gay wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> We sort of ran out of time in today's Cloud WG meeting, but I did want
>> to ask:
>>
>> What are your thoughts on AMI lifetimes? That is to say, how long should
>> EC2 AMIs exist before they're deleted? A few points to consider:
> 
> I feel like I should know this, but I don't.
> 
> If a user spins up an AMI and then it's deleted by the provider, do they
> still have their instance(s) or do they lose the ability to create new
> images?

The instances they already started would still run and be available, but
they wouldn't be able to spin up anything new. If creating/killing
instances is something they do a lot (autoscaling groups, worker farms,
etc) then that could hose them just as surely as killing their existing
instances.

> That would color my response a bit.
> 
> Do we know how other projects handle theirs? If I go to spin up a Foo
> Linux release from 2 years ago, is the AMI still there?
> 
> At minimum, we should probably delete any AMIs that are no longer a
> supported version of Fedora, and I'd also be for deleting any TC, alpha,
> beta, etc. AMIs - especially once a release is published. So, for
> instance, any F21 alpha, beta, etc. AMIs can probably go to the great
> bit bucket in the sky at this point.
> 
> Also wonder if this is something we need to have ACK'ed by FESCo?
> 
> Best,
> 
> jzb
> 
> 
> 
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Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.