Enhance Heat Orchestration Over Glance Metadata¶

bp glance-heat-metadata-enhancements <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/glance-heat-metadata-enhancements>_

This extends Heat’s orchestration abilities to include user-defined key/value pairs. This blueprint can be viewed as an extension of blueprint heat-glance-image-tag-support <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/heat-glance-image-tag-support>_.

Problem description¶

While Heat currently orchestrates many Glance image properties, its support is incomplete. Specifically, Glance’s ability to add key/value properties to an image at upload-time is not exposed to the HOT author. These properties might be used by other OpenStack components and drivers interfacing with Glance, and are also useful for operators to learn more about the images themselves.

Proposed change¶

Modify OS::Glance::Image to allow for user-defined key/values. This properties schema would have the following entry added:

PROPERTY: properties.Schema(
    properties.Schema.MAP,
    _('Arbitrary properties to associate with the image.'),
    update_allowed=True,
    default={}
    )

As this blueprint is meant to expose Glance’s –property flag, the above schema entry provides the form property: {key1: value1, key2: value2, …} to the template author.

Alternatives¶

Users wishing to apply currently unsupported metadata would need to do it after the stack has been deployed.

Implementation¶

Within heat/engine/resources/openstack/glance/image.py, both the PROPERTIES and properties_schema variables would need to be modified to handle key/value pairs. Particularly, these key/values would be implemented as a properties schema map. The handle_create() method would also be extended to pass the metadata map to the Glance client via client.images.update. A handle_update() method will also be implemented to avoid potentially expensive recreation of large images.

Assignee(s)¶

Primary assignee:: Jaime Guerrero, <jg3755@att.com, jaimguer>
Other contributors:: Rusty Eddy, <ge363p@att.com>

Milestones¶

newton-2

Work Items¶

Modify PROPERTIES variable
Modify properties_schema
Modify handle_create()
Implement handle_update()
Write tests for supported Glance and user-defined metadata

Dependencies¶

Since Heat is targeting migration to Glance API v2, implementation of this blueprint will be targeted to the particular switches of that API. Heat code will be modified in anticipation of the features supported by Glance v2. The blueprint for Heat’s migration to Glance v2 can be found at migrate-to-glance-v2 <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/migrate-to-glance-v2>_

Implemention will follow in the style of heat-glance-image-tag-support <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/heat-glance-image-tag-support>_.

For more information on Glance’s image metadata capabilities, please see Image metadata <http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/image-metadata.html>_.

Enhance Heat Orchestration Over Glance Metadata