[rhos-list] Optimizing IT: Red Hat Virtual Event

[Perry Myers]

>>> I am using Foreman, and it would be nice to use Foreman to build images and push them to glance. 
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>> Right, so today Foreman just takes images that already exist and what you're looking for is a feature enhancement to Foreman that would integrate with something like Image Factory or Oz to build new VM images from source media and then push those images into Glance.  Do I have that right?
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>> You are exactly right. I would be happy with just using OZ alone to build images and using some other tool to push those images into Glance. I believe fog can do this, I know Foreman uses fog to talk to Openstack, ovirt etc.. If anyone got a work script that uses OZ to build, then push images into Glance, please share.
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> So, "building with Oz and then uploading to glance" is more or less what
> Image Factory does when building for OpenStack.  With our plugin
> structure it is possible to install only the bits needed to do this and
> avoid pulling in things related to EC2, RHEV-M, etc.
> 
> This is then visible as a RESTful service.

Excellent.  Thanks for the clarification Ian :)