ovirt-imageio

ovirt-imageio enables uploading and downloading of disks and snapshots using HTTPS.

The project provides ovirt-imageio service and imageio client library.

ovirt-imageio service can act in two different roles:

as a service exposing images over HTTPS, allowing clients to read and write images.
as a proxy service, allowing clients without access to the host network to read and write images.

imageio client library provides wrapper around REST API provided by ovirt-imageio. Besides making REST API easy to use, it also provides other features like on-the-fly image format conversion or support for incremental backup out of the box. It can also be used as a reference implementation of imageio client.

How this project is related to other oVirt projects?

vdsm - control and monitor imageio service, prepare and finalize upload and download operations.
engine - manage upload and download operations, communicating with vdsm and imageio service running on the engine. Engine does not communicate with imageio service on the hosts.

Documentation

http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-imageio/

Installation

On engine, the imageio service is installed as part of oVirt engine installation
- Should be enabled during engine-setup.
On host, the imageio service is installed as part of oVirt node installation

Contributing

Patches are welcome!

Refer to Development Section for build and commit instructions.
Send a pull request on GitHub

Getting Help

Please send mail to one of the following lists for help.

For discussion about usage and general help: http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
For technical discussion about the project and its code: http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Licensing

The project is provided under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later License.

Please see the LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt file for complete license terms.