Tim 0.2.0

Project Overview

Tim is a Rails Engine responsible for Cloud image management. It allows clients to create, delete and upload images to a multitude of Cloud providers. Tim builds on top of Imagefactory’s cloud abstraction layer.

Adding the ability for clients to store meta-data (used for searching and sorting) as well as versioning and support for access control. Tim wraps all this up in a clean, simple RESTful API.

Overview

This is the fourth release of Tim. New features include:

• Support for importing existing images
• Support for Snapshot building functionality
• Support for host application passing in respond_options.
• Addition of initial rpm spec, script, and documentation; this can serve as a starting point for other distributions to package Tim

Read the documentation to find out more.

Features

• Introduction to Tim
• Import Existing Images
• Full List of Updates

Introduction to Tim

During the Aeolus Developer Conference, Martyn Taylor gave an introductory talk about TIM. View his presentation or watch the screencast below.

Import Existing Images

This release supports the importing of images into Tim. To see how, view the documentation.

Full List of Updates

• Support for importing existing images
• Support for Snapshot building functionality
• Support for host application passing in respond_options
  • This allows, for example, custom redirect URLs to be passed to Tim.
• Better error reporting if unable to connect to factory
• Added new hooks for setting provider and credentials to be sent to factory.
• Documentation updates
  • BaseImage and Template usage
  • Import example
• Improve error handling on XML sytanx errors for Templates
• Various bugfixes
• Additional model validations and associations to make for better consistency.
• Added initial rpm spec, script, documentation This can serve as a starting point for other distributions to package Tim.
• Gem packaging cleanup/fixes.