[LIBCLOUD-294] list_images needs an imageid filter

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.1
• Component/s: Compute
• Labels: patch

Environment

Problem has been noticed by several users running salt-cloud, across CentOS 6.3, Ubuntu 12.10 and the current Arch Linux. Issue is EC2-specific.

• Assignee: Tomaz Muraus
• Reporter: Joseph Hall
• Created: 06/Feb/13 23:48
• Updated: 25/Feb/13 19:42
• Resolved: 07/Feb/13 13:30

Description

The list_images() function has no way to pass a list of images to EC2's DescribeImages Action. This means that DescribeImages will always return every image that EC2 knows about, which numbers in the several hundreds. In salt-cloud, this causes the CPU and memory to get pegged every time this call is made:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt-cloud/issues/100
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-cloud/issues/197

After patching it in my local copy of the repo, I discovered that a pull req had already been submitted which does a much better job at fixing the issue than I did:

https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/77

If that pull req were to be merged, it would help out a lot.