We discussed a common set of image properties a while back on the mailing list
([1] and [2]). The general idea was to define a common way to expose useful
image properties (distro, version, architecture, packages, etc).
It doesn't appear we ever came to a hard consensus, but Rackspace has been
publishing the following properties in their deployment:
org.openstack__1__architecture = x64
org.openstack__1__os_distro = org.ubuntu
org.openstack__1__os_version = 12.04
If the idea is to get all deployments to publish these properties, I think what
Rackspace has implemented would be a good starting point. The question I want
to pose to the community is this:
Does it make sense to ship a set of JSON schemas with Glance that represent
these properties? Doing so wouldn't explicitly require all deployments to use
them, but it would reduce the work required to publish them and help ensure
they have a common meaning across deployments. Keep in mind that we would be
shipping these as a part of Glance, not as a part of the Images API spec.
I personally think it would be great to provide these, and to do so in the
Folsom release so those deployers riding major releases wouldn't be left out in
the dark.
All comments welcome!
Brian Waldon
[1] http://markmail.org/message/5bd5zkyre57ppi3n
[2] http://markmail.org/message/soaldxs4lovd2uir
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