On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >On 11/11/2015 05:01 PM, Marcin Kulisz wrote: >> >> There is a way of triggering build of this images on AWS hosts from Debian >> infrastructure with bootstrap-vz though. >> >> I know it's not "ideal" but right now I don't know about any other option. > >On this topic, I have also things to say. > >In the OpenStack world, we have this: >http://apps.openstack.org/ > >as you can see, there's the Debian images referenced there. If you >install Horizon (the OpenStack dashboard), and since the last Liberty >release (from last October), you can install python-app-catalog-ui, >which is an extension that lists all images from the openstack.org site. > >Until now, images are added to the openstack.org site through the gerrit >review process. While this may somehow work for the stable images, it >doesn't for the weekly testing image. Therefore, the app-catalog-ui guys >are currently working on a REST API, so that we could update the images >metadata automatically. This is very important, so that later on, a >system to check the sha256 sums of the .qcow2 images can be made. > >So, Steve, do you think the debian-cd image build process could include >such a REST API request to openstack.org, in order to update the >app-catalog automatically? This doesn't involve uploading the images, >just referencing them. Also, I currently don't know how it will look >like, but I'm almost sure we'll have an app-catalog CLI tool, and we >will be provided with a login / pass to update the images.
That shouldn't be a problem. In fact, as you've probably seen I already have been prodded about adding similar virt-builder metadata for the existing cloud images, to help the libguestfs folks. There's a lot of publishing stuff that we can do here, whatever makes sense for the images tbh. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...