OpenStack Tips: Download a cloud-image on India's OpenStack and upload to Sierra's OpenStack

Here's how to download an image from India's OpenStack and upload it to Sierra's OpenStack.

1. On Sierra, make sure you've done step1 and step2 of our grizzly tutorial.

2. On your local machine, download your credential from india.

scp -rp [username]@india.futuregrid.org:~/.futuregrid .futuregrid.india

3. On your local machine, upload the credential to sierra. (*Do not overwrite your.futuregrid on sierra.)

scp -rp .futuregrid.india [username]@sierra.futuregrid.org:~/.futuregrid.india

4. On Sierra, load india's credential.

source ~/.futuregrid.india/openstack/novarc
module load novaclient

5. On Sierra, check your image id and download your image/ramdisk/kernel.

nova image-list|grep [name]
glance image-download [id] --file [file name to save]

6. On Sierra, load sierra's novarc.

source ~/.futuregrid/novarc

7. On Sierra, upload them.

glance image-create --name= --disk-format=aki --container-format=aki < kernel-file
glance image-create --name= --disk-format=ari --container-format=ari < ramdisk-name
glance image-create --name= --disk-format=ami --container-format=ami --property kernel_id=[kernel_id] --property ramdisk_id=[ramdisk_id] < your-image-file.img