Welcome to Glance’s documentation!¶
About Glance¶
The Image service (glance) project provides a service where users can upload and discover data assets that are meant to be used with other services. This currently includes images and metadata definitions.
Glance image services include discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine (VM) images. Glance has a RESTful API that allows querying of VM image metadata as well as retrieval of the actual image.
Note
The Images API v1, DEPRECATED in the Newton release, has been removed.
VM images made available through Glance can be stored in a variety of locations from simple filesystems to object-storage systems like the OpenStack Swift project.
Glance, as with all OpenStack projects, is written with the following design guidelines in mind:
- Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors
- Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads
- Fault tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
- Recoverable: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
- Open standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
Glance Documentation¶
The Glance Project Team has put together the following documentation for you. Pick the documents that best match your user profile.
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Contributor
You want to contribute code, documentation, reviews, or
ideas to the Glance Project.
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Administrator
You want to administer and maintain a Glance installation.
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Operator
You want to install and configure Glance for your cloud.
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End User or Third-party Developer
You want to use the Image Service APIs provided by Glance.
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| Everyone | Here’s a handy Glossary of terms related to Glance |
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