glance-manage

glance-manage

Glance Management Utility

Author:glance@lists.launchpad.net
Date:2017-09-15
Copyright:OpenStack Foundation
Version:15.0.0
Manual section:1
Manual group:cloud computing

SYNOPSIS

glance-manage [options]

DESCRIPTION

glance-manage is a utility for managing and configuring a Glance installation. One important use of glance-manage is to setup the database. To do this run:

glance-manage db_sync

Note: glance-manage commands can be run either like this:

glance-manage db sync

or with the db commands concatenated, like this:

glance-manage db_sync

COMMANDS

db
This is the prefix for the commands below when used with a space rather than a _. For example “db version”.
db_version
This will print the current migration level of a glance database.
db_upgrade [VERSION]
This will take an existing database and upgrade it to the specified VERSION.
db_version_control
Place the database under migration control.
db_sync [VERSION]
Place an existing database under migration control and upgrade it to the specified VERSION.
db_expand
Run this command to expand the database as the first step of a rolling upgrade process.
db_migrate
Run this command to migrate the database as the second step of a rolling upgrade process.
db_contract
Run this command to contract the database as the last step of a rolling upgrade process.
db_export_metadefs [PATH | PREFIX]
Export the metadata definitions into json format. By default the definitions are exported to /etc/glance/metadefs directory. Note: this command will overwrite existing files in the supplied or default path.
db_load_metadefs [PATH]
Load the metadata definitions into glance database. By default the definitions are imported from /etc/glance/metadefs directory.
db_unload_metadefs
Unload the metadata definitions. Clears the contents of all the glance db tables including metadef_namespace_resource_types, metadef_tags, metadef_objects, metadef_resource_types, metadef_namespaces and metadef_properties.

OPTIONS

General Options

BUGS

  • Glance bugs are tracked in Launchpad so you can view current bugs at OpenStack Glance

CONFIGURATION

The following paths are searched for a glance-manage.conf file in the following order:

  • ~/.glance
  • ~/
  • /etc/glance
  • /etc

All options set in glance-manage.conf override those set in glance-registry.conf and glance-api.conf.

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