In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Installing OpenStack Image Service
Configuring OpenStack Image Service with OpenStack Identity Service
Configuring OpenStack Image Service with OpenStack Object Storage
Managing images with OpenStack Image Service
Registering a remotely stored image
Sharing images among tenants
Viewing shared images
Using image metadata
Migrating a VMware image
Creating an OpenStack image
Introduction
OpenStack Image Service, also known as Glance, is a service that allows you to register, discover, and retrieve virtual machine images for use in our OpenStack environment. Images made available through OpenStack Image Service can be stored in a variety of backend locations, from local filesystem storage to distributed filesystems, such as OpenStack Object Storage.
In this chapter we will be concentrating on the Controller host as shown below: