In a world where Cloud IaaS providers are popping up on every street
corner, it becomes increasingly important to prevent vendor lockin.
Several efforts are already underway in projects like DeltaCloud to help
abstract away the differences in API's and allow consumers to be cloud
agnostic.
However, the desire for cloud agnosticism becomes increasingly
challenging when we start thinking about managing images. Not only do
we have API differences, but also many cloud vendors require differing
formats and importation methods, some requiring uploading of pre-built
images, others snapshots of running instances.
This talk addresses some of the issues surrounding image management in a
federated cloud environment and introduces Aeolus Image Factory; a
project that offers image management abstraction for multitude of Cloud
vendors. Aeolus Image Factory allows users to define images at a high
level and have them built, pushed and registered with all the major
cloud vendors.