Download Images using BitTorrent (in XenServer)

Registered by Rick Harris

The proposal here is to use BitTorrent to speed up builds in a cluster. The main advantages being, this should speed up builds even when the image is not cached and reduces considerably our need to continually add more Glance-API nodes within a cluster.

The ultimate goal would be for BitTorrent to supplant Glance-API entirely, using BitTorrent on the compute nodes (of which we have plenty :-) and Swift (which is already built to scale) without having the bottleneck of a fixed number of Glance-API servers in between.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Russell Bryant
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Rick Harris
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Rick Harris
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for grizzly
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2013.1
Started by
Russell Bryant
Completed by
Russell Bryant

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/xenserver-bittorrent-images,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/8974
    Add ability to download images via BitTorrent.

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bug/1018641,n,z

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:fix_vdi_list,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/13401
    Add ability to download images via BitTorrent.

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