OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)

Why cannot we add an image on horizon

Asked by yong sheng gong

Hi,
I know we can snapshot an instance. But why not add 'create an image' feature, just like the way we do 'glance add' into horizon?

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Yong Sheng Gong

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Gabriel Hurley (gabriel-hurley) said : 		#1

There are various means available for adding images to the system currently, including adding an image that is accessible via a web URL. By and large the only method *not* supported is uploading an image directly to the dashboard to be added to Glance, and the reason for this is the difficulty of dealing with very large file uploads in a manner that both provides a good user experience and is secure. Flat out allowing multi-GB file uploads is a terrible idea (denial of service attacks become trivial at that point). The requisite piece is a rich upload connection directly the image store. When that gets worked out we'll push forward on this feature.

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