Server Templates
A server template consists of a base image plus the definitions of configuration metadata. For example, a server template might include an Apache HTTP server; the metadata would include the server name, location of the HTML root directory, and tuning parameters. Glance stores the template in its registry; Nova, when creating a new server from the template, would validate the required metadata and configure the internal applications directly.
The metadata could also be used to drive automatically-
Server templates could greatly increase the flexibility and usability of compute clouds; rather than creating a "bare" server and configuring it manually, this could allow users to prepopulate applications in a server image and configure them automatically.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Glen Campbell
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Brian Waldon
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Sprints
Whiteboard
Very rudimentary and preliminary design for discussion at the Essex summit.
It was determined at the design summit that this is more inline with the Donabe resource and not the Images API
