TritonDataCenter
Feature Request - Create Image from VM
After provisioning and setting up a VM, it would be nice to be able to create an image of it that can be shared with other users.
Are you referring to specifically having this feature available in the AdminUI in addition to the current functionality available via CloudAPI?
https://apidocs.joyent.com/cloudapi/#CreateImageFromMachine
@chorrell I thought the CloudAPI was for Joyent customers only and not for the opensource sdc?
CloudAPI is part of SDC: https://github.com/joyent/sdc-cloudapi
Just not the customer facing "portal"
@chorrell @kusor Would it seem very useful having this in the Operations Portal (creating images from a VM)? Since, it is already a central location for managing images and creating VMs. Unless, I'm wrong and no one really needs to create images from a VM.
In general it's not an action that operators of a cloud take and its one that we find users of the cloud take, which is why it hasn't been something that we've generally exposed in the operations portal. That doesn't mean we can't, but there are a bunch of details to work out.
Most importantly we'll want to understand whether the operator should have the ability to do this on behalf of a user, given that it can be a bit of a destructive process (at least from the user's perspective) as it will snapshot, modify, stop, send, rollback, etc. the running VM.
@rmustacc without a UI it doesn't seem to have an ease of use for cloud users either. That's what I'm confused about. Same with internal, non-cloud users. I don't think they will be seeing a console very much; and it'll be a hard case to get them to touch a console, too
Well, unfortunately there is a UI, it's just not open source, sorry.
But basically I'm not disagreeing that it can't be added to the adminui, but we need to work out the semantics of the operation carefully, as it has to be viewed as a destructive action and we'll want to work out whether it's the operator creating the custom image on behalf of that user or it's the operator using this to create a custom image that that specific operator then owns.
@rmustacc that makes so much more sense now. It's like a DLC for the additional content
Thanks!
I realize this thread pertained specifically to CreateFromMachineImage within joyent/sdc-adminui but it's still worth advertising that you can achieve similar support by creating your own custom VM images using a Packer template. @jen20 recently updated Packer to use Triton's fairly new Go SDK.
