Chapter 2. Glance – OpenStack Image Service

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:

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