On 07/20/2018 08:15 AM, Sayan Chowdhury wrote: > Last few days, I spent doing a feasibility analysis on the migrating > from fedimg to ore, a subproject of mantle to release the Fedora cloud > images. > > ore/mantle comes from the CoreOS community. mantle is comprised of > multiple utility projects to keep the CL bits together. > > The workflow for fedimg right now: > - Downloads the raw.xz image > - Uses the ImportVolume AWS API[1] to create a volume via S3 > - Creates the snapshot using the earlier created volume > - Registers the AMI of the snapshot provided > - Copies the AMI to other regions and makes the AMI and the snapshot public. > > What if we migrate to Ore? > The process remain more or less the same except for a few changes: > - Downloads the .qcow2 image > * Once we start using the .qcow2 image we don't need releng to > produce two formats i.e. qcow2 & .raw.xz I thought we needed raw for some cloud provider? perhaps not. > - Converts the .qcow2 image to .vmdk format image using qemu-img > - Uses the newer supported AWS API i.e. ImportSnapshot which directly > creates the Snapshot uploading the image via S3 > - Registers the AMI with the snapshot. > - Copies the AMI to other regions. > > - Ore also skips any of the steps already processed which makes it > easier for the AMIs maintainer. > - Ore has a more maintainers than fedimg. > - It's better to focus on a single project than maintaining two. > > Two areas where it needs more research > > - how do we send out the fedmsg messages when we move to ore > - making the images & the snapshots public. > > Thoughts? All this is in go I assume and not packaged? I agree it would be nice to have fewer things and more maintainers on those things. :) kevin
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