Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

Update: The discussion went in two directions: (1) Whether supporting OS tarballs in Ironic is a good idea ... continuing discussion on the Ironic spec, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/248968/ (2) How an OS tarball should be identified in Glance ... continuing discussion on the Glance

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

Hi Flavio, On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > [snip] > However, as a community, I think we should send a clear message and protect > our users and, in this case, the best way > is to avoid adding this format as supported. > To address some of the

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

On 27/01/16 08:20 -0430, Flavio Percoco wrote: On 26/01/16 09:11 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:00:16AM +0200, Duncan Thomas wrote: I guess my wisdom would be 'why'? What does this enable you to do that you couldn't do with similar ease with the formats we have and

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

On 26/01/16 09:11 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:00:16AM +0200, Duncan Thomas wrote: I guess my wisdom would be 'why'? What does this enable you to do that you couldn't do with similar ease with the formats we have and are people trying to do that frequently. We've

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 08:32:58AM -0430, Flavio Percoco wrote: > On 27/01/16 08:20 -0430, Flavio Percoco wrote: > >On 26/01/16 09:11 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:00:16AM +0200, Duncan Thomas wrote: > >>>I guess my wisdom would be 'why'? What does this enable you

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:00:16AM +0200, Duncan Thomas wrote: > I guess my wisdom would be 'why'? What does this enable you to do that you > couldn't do with similar ease with the formats we have and are people > trying to do that frequently. > > We've seen in cinder that image formats have a

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

On 23/01/16 09:08 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Brian Rosmaita's message of 2016-01-23 06:54:26 -0800: Please provide feedback about a proposal to add 'tar' as a new Glance disk_format.[0] The Ironic team is adding support for "OS tarball images" in Mitaka. This is a compressed

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

Hi Duncan, On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Duncan Thomas wrote: > I guess my wisdom would be 'why'? What does this enable you to do that you > couldn't do with similar ease with the formats we have and are people trying > to do that frequently. > As far as i know the

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

Excerpts from Brian Rosmaita's message of 2016-01-23 06:54:26 -0800: > Please provide feedback about a proposal to add 'tar' as a new Glance > disk_format.[0] > > The Ironic team is adding support for "OS tarball images" in Mitaka. This is > a compressed tar archive of a / (root filesystem).

[openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

Please provide feedback about a proposal to add 'tar' as a new Glance disk_format.[0] The Ironic team is adding support for "OS tarball images" in Mitaka. This is a compressed tar archive of a / (root filesystem). These tarballs are created by first installing the OS packages in a chroot and

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][ironic][cinder][nova] 'tar' as an image disk_format

I guess my wisdom would be 'why'? What does this enable you to do that you couldn't do with similar ease with the formats we have and are people trying to do that frequently. We've seen in cinder that image formats have a definite security surface to them, and with glance adding arbitrary