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

[Perry Myers]

On 12/05/2012 05:34 PM, Steve Loranz wrote:
>> If anyone got a work script that uses OZ to build, then push images
>> into Glance, please share.
> 
> This is exactly what imagefactory will do for you.
> 
> Please realize that imagefactory is plugin based. Our current OS
> plugins pretty much just wrap Oz. The Cloud plugins take the
> resulting OS images and manage whatever needs to be done to prepare
> them for and push them to the cloud. If all you want is Openstack,
> then only install the Openstack cloud plugin. This was done precisely
> to decouple different areas of the code and make it easier for
> developers focused on a specific OS or a specific cloud to work on
> supporting that OS or cloud. For the user it allows imagefactory to
> be as focused or as flexible as needed.

One thing that might be useful would be to have IF/Oz utilize an
OpenStack VM to do the image building vs. using a standalone kvm host.
Is this something that could be done?