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

[Steve Loranz]

On Dec 5, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/05/2012 06:24 PM, Heron, Rodrique (CTR) WDC31 wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Loranz [mailto:sloranz at redhat.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 5:34 PM
>> To: Heron, Rodrique (CTR) WDC31
>> Cc: Perry Myers; daniel at dumdan.com; rhos-list at redhat.com; Ohad Levy; Ian McLeod; John R. Dunning; Angus Salkeld; Steven Hardy; Zane Bitter
>> Subject: Re: [rhos-list] Optimizing IT: Red Hat Virtual Event
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> -steve
>> 
>> Steve/Ian
>> 
>> Thanks for the pointers, I did look into Image Factory. But decided
>> to use OZ because I wasn't sure if Image Factory was Aelous and I did
>> not want aleous. Is there another source for information on using
>> Image Factory the way you describe.
> 
> Image Factory is part of the Aeolus project, but it is not == Aeolus.
> It is just one of many components that make up that infrastructure.
> 
> That being said, I see no reason why Image Factory couldn't be used
> outside of Aeolus in the way we're discussing here.  So no need to steer
> clear of IF just because it's part of the Aeolus project :)

In fact, we are trying to be considered independent of Aeolus as we have no dependencies from the Aeolus project. We recently launched http://imgfac.org to develop our own identity and community. There, you can find an evolving collection of documentation for installing and using imagefactory (http://imgfac.org/documentation). I'm trying to get a non-RPM install working now to make it easier to get started on a system other than RHEL/Fedora (Ubuntu being the current focus).

-steve