Additional configuration options for Image service

updated: 2019-08-23 19:39
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Additional configuration options for Image service

You can modify many options in the Image service. The following tables provide a comprehensive list.

Description of common configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]  
allow_additional_image_properties = True

(Boolean) Allow users to add additional/custom properties to images.

Glance defines a standard set of properties (in its schema) that appear on every image. These properties are also known as base properties. In addition to these properties, Glance allows users to add custom properties to images. These are known as additional properties.

By default, this configuration option is set to True and users are allowed to add additional properties. The number of additional properties that can be added to an image can be controlled via image_property_quota configuration option.

Possible values:

  • True
  • False

Related options:

  • image_property_quota
api_limit_max = 1000

(Integer) Maximum number of results that could be returned by a request.

As described in the help text of limit_param_default, some requests may return multiple results. The number of results to be returned are governed either by the limit parameter in the request or the limit_param_default configuration option. The value in either case, can’t be greater than the absolute maximum defined by this configuration option. Anything greater than this value is trimmed down to the maximum value defined here.

NOTE: Setting this to a very large value may slow down database queries and increase response times. Setting this to a very low value may result in poor user experience.

Possible values:

  • Any positive integer

Related options:

  • limit_param_default
backlog = 4096

(Integer) Set the number of incoming connection requests.

Provide a positive integer value to limit the number of requests in the backlog queue. The default queue size is 4096.

An incoming connection to a TCP listener socket is queued before a connection can be established with the server. Setting the backlog for a TCP socket ensures a limited queue size for incoming traffic.

Possible values:

  • Positive integer

Related options:

  • None
bind_host = 0.0.0.0

(String) IP address to bind the glance servers to.

Provide an IP address to bind the glance server to. The default value is 0.0.0.0.

Edit this option to enable the server to listen on one particular IP address on the network card. This facilitates selection of a particular network interface for the server.

Possible values:

  • A valid IPv4 address
  • A valid IPv6 address

Related options:

  • None
bind_port = None

(Port number) Port number on which the server will listen.

Provide a valid port number to bind the server’s socket to. This port is then set to identify processes and forward network messages that arrive at the server. The default bind_port value for the API server is 9292 and for the registry server is 9191.

Possible values:

  • A valid port number (0 to 65535)

Related options:

  • None
data_api = glance.db.sqlalchemy.api

(String) Python module path of data access API.

Specifies the path to the API to use for accessing the data model. This option determines how the image catalog data will be accessed.

Possible values:

  • glance.db.sqlalchemy.api
  • glance.db.registry.api
  • glance.db.simple.api

If this option is set to glance.db.sqlalchemy.api then the image catalog data is stored in and read from the database via the SQLAlchemy Core and ORM APIs.

Setting this option to glance.db.registry.api will force all database access requests to be routed through the Registry service. This avoids data access from the Glance API nodes for an added layer of security, scalability and manageability.

NOTE: In v2 OpenStack Images API, the registry service is optional. In order to use the Registry API in v2, the option enable_v2_registry must be set to True.

Finally, when this configuration option is set to glance.db.simple.api, image catalog data is stored in and read from an in-memory data structure. This is primarily used for testing.

Related options:

  • enable_v2_api
  • enable_v2_registry
digest_algorithm = sha256

(String) Digest algorithm to use for digital signature.

Provide a string value representing the digest algorithm to use for generating digital signatures. By default, sha256 is used.

To get a list of the available algorithms supported by the version of OpenSSL on your platform, run the command: openssl list-message-digest-algorithms. Examples are ‘sha1’, ‘sha256’, and ‘sha512’.

NOTE: digest_algorithm is not related to Glance’s image signing and verification. It is only used to sign the universally unique identifier (UUID) as a part of the certificate file and key file validation.

Possible values:

  • An OpenSSL message digest algorithm identifier

Relation options:

  • None
executor_thread_pool_size = 64 (Integer) Size of executor thread pool.
image_location_quota = 10

(Integer) Maximum number of locations allowed on an image.

Any negative value is interpreted as unlimited.

Related options:

  • None
image_member_quota = 128

(Integer) Maximum number of image members per image.

This limits the maximum of users an image can be shared with. Any negative value is interpreted as unlimited.

Related options:

  • None
image_property_quota = 128

(Integer) Maximum number of properties allowed on an image.

This enforces an upper limit on the number of additional properties an image can have. Any negative value is interpreted as unlimited.

NOTE: This won’t have any impact if additional properties are disabled. Please refer to allow_additional_image_properties.

Related options:

  • allow_additional_image_properties
image_tag_quota = 128

(Integer) Maximum number of tags allowed on an image.

Any negative value is interpreted as unlimited.

Related options:

  • None
limit_param_default = 25

(Integer) The default number of results to return for a request.

Responses to certain API requests, like list images, may return multiple items. The number of results returned can be explicitly controlled by specifying the limit parameter in the API request. However, if a limit parameter is not specified, this configuration value will be used as the default number of results to be returned for any API request.

NOTES:

  • The value of this configuration option may not be greater than the value specified by api_limit_max.
  • Setting this to a very large value may slow down database queries and increase response times. Setting this to a very low value may result in poor user experience.

Possible values:

  • Any positive integer

Related options:

  • api_limit_max
metadata_encryption_key = None

(String) AES key for encrypting store location metadata.

Provide a string value representing the AES cipher to use for encrypting Glance store metadata.

NOTE: The AES key to use must be set to a random string of length 16, 24 or 32 bytes.

Possible values:

  • String value representing a valid AES key

Related options:

  • None
metadata_source_path = /etc/glance/metadefs/

(String) Absolute path to the directory where JSON metadefs files are stored.

Glance Metadata Definitions (“metadefs”) are served from the database, but are stored in files in the JSON format. The files in this directory are used to initialize the metadefs in the database. Additionally, when metadefs are exported from the database, the files are written to this directory.

NOTE: If you plan to export metadefs, make sure that this directory has write permissions set for the user being used to run the glance-api service.

Possible values:

  • String value representing a valid absolute pathname

Related options:

  • None
property_protection_file = None

(String) The location of the property protection file.

Provide a valid path to the property protection file which contains the rules for property protections and the roles/policies associated with them.

A property protection file, when set, restricts the Glance image properties to be created, read, updated and/or deleted by a specific set of users that are identified by either roles or policies. If this configuration option is not set, by default, property protections won’t be enforced. If a value is specified and the file is not found, the glance-api service will fail to start. More information on property protections can be found at: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/property-protections.html

Possible values:

  • Empty string
  • Valid path to the property protection configuration file

Related options:

  • property_protection_rule_format
property_protection_rule_format = roles

(String) Rule format for property protection.

Provide the desired way to set property protection on Glance image properties. The two permissible values are roles and policies. The default value is roles.

If the value is roles, the property protection file must contain a comma separated list of user roles indicating permissions for each of the CRUD operations on each property being protected. If set to policies, a policy defined in policy.json is used to express property protections for each of the CRUD operations. Examples of how property protections are enforced based on roles or policies can be found at: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/property-protections.html#examples

Possible values:

  • roles
  • policies

Related options:

  • property_protection_file
show_image_direct_url = False

(Boolean) Show direct image location when returning an image.

This configuration option indicates whether to show the direct image location when returning image details to the user. The direct image location is where the image data is stored in backend storage. This image location is shown under the image property direct_url.

When multiple image locations exist for an image, the best location is displayed based on the location strategy indicated by the configuration option location_strategy.

NOTES:

  • Revealing image locations can present a GRAVE SECURITY RISK as image locations can sometimes include credentials. Hence, this is set to False by default. Set this to True with EXTREME CAUTION and ONLY IF you know what you are doing!
  • If an operator wishes to avoid showing any image location(s) to the user, then both this option and show_multiple_locations MUST be set to False.

Possible values:

  • True
  • False

Related options:

  • show_multiple_locations
  • location_strategy
user_storage_quota = 0

(String) Maximum amount of image storage per tenant.

This enforces an upper limit on the cumulative storage consumed by all images of a tenant across all stores. This is a per-tenant limit.

The default unit for this configuration option is Bytes. However, storage units can be specified using case-sensitive literals B, KB, MB, GB and TB representing Bytes, KiloBytes, MegaBytes, GigaBytes and TeraBytes respectively. Note that there should not be any space between the value and unit. Value 0 signifies no quota enforcement. Negative values are invalid and result in errors.

Possible values:

  • A string that is a valid concatenation of a non-negative integer representing the storage value and an optional string literal representing storage units as mentioned above.

Related options:

  • None
workers = None

(Integer) Number of Glance worker processes to start.

Provide a non-negative integer value to set the number of child process workers to service requests. By default, the number of CPUs available is set as the value for workers.

Each worker process is made to listen on the port set in the configuration file and contains a greenthread pool of size 1000.

NOTE: Setting the number of workers to zero, triggers the creation of a single API process with a greenthread pool of size 1000.

Possible values:

  • 0
  • Positive integer value (typically equal to the number of CPUs)

Related options:

  • None
[glance_store]  
rootwrap_config = /etc/glance/rootwrap.conf

(String) Path to the rootwrap configuration file to use for running commands as root.

The cinder store requires root privileges to operate the image volumes (for connecting to iSCSI/FC volumes and reading/writing the volume data, etc.). The configuration file should allow the required commands by cinder store and os-brick library.

Possible values:

  • Path to the rootwrap config file

Related options:

  • None
[image_format]  
container_formats = ami, ari, aki, bare, ovf, ova, docker (List) Supported values for the ‘container_format’ image attribute
disk_formats = ami, ari, aki, vhd, vhdx, vmdk, raw, qcow2, vdi, iso (List) Supported values for the ‘disk_format’ image attribute
[task]  
task_executor = taskflow

(String) Task executor to be used to run task scripts.

Provide a string value representing the executor to use for task executions. By default, TaskFlow executor is used.

TaskFlow helps make task executions easy, consistent, scalable and reliable. It also enables creation of lightweight task objects and/or functions that are combined together into flows in a declarative manner.

Possible values:

  • taskflow

Related Options:

  • None
task_time_to_live = 48 (Integer) Time in hours for which a task lives after, either succeeding or failing
work_dir = /work_dir

(String) Absolute path to the work directory to use for asynchronous task operations.

The directory set here will be used to operate over images - normally before they are imported in the destination store.

NOTE: When providing a value for work_dir, please make sure that enough space is provided for concurrent tasks to run efficiently without running out of space.

A rough estimation can be done by multiplying the number of max_workers with an average image size (e.g 500MB). The image size estimation should be done based on the average size in your deployment. Note that depending on the tasks running you may need to multiply this number by some factor depending on what the task does. For example, you may want to double the available size if image conversion is enabled. All this being said, remember these are just estimations and you should do them based on the worst case scenario and be prepared to act in case they were wrong.

Possible values:

  • String value representing the absolute path to the working directory

Related Options:

  • None
Description of flagmappings configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]  
delayed_delete = False

(Boolean) Turn on/off delayed delete.

Typically when an image is deleted, the glance-api service puts the image into deleted state and deletes its data at the same time. Delayed delete is a feature in Glance that delays the actual deletion of image data until a later point in time (as determined by the configuration option scrub_time). When delayed delete is turned on, the glance-api service puts the image into pending_delete state upon deletion and leaves the image data in the storage backend for the image scrubber to delete at a later time. The image scrubber will move the image into deleted state upon successful deletion of image data.

NOTE: When delayed delete is turned on, image scrubber MUST be running as a periodic task to prevent the backend storage from filling up with undesired usage.

Possible values:

  • True
  • False

Related options:

  • scrub_time
  • wakeup_time
  • scrub_pool_size
image_cache_dir = None

(String) Base directory for image cache.

This is the location where image data is cached and served out of. All cached images are stored directly under this directory. This directory also contains three subdirectories, namely, incomplete, invalid and queue.

The incomplete subdirectory is the staging area for downloading images. An image is first downloaded to this directory. When the image download is successful it is moved to the base directory. However, if the download fails, the partially downloaded image file is moved to the invalid subdirectory.

The queue``subdirectory is used for queuing images for download. This is used primarily by the cache-prefetcher, which can be scheduled as a periodic task like cache-pruner and cache-cleaner, to cache images ahead of their usage. Upon receiving the request to cache an image, Glance touches a file in the ``queue directory with the image id as the file name. The cache-prefetcher, when running, polls for the files in queue directory and starts downloading them in the order they were created. When the download is successful, the zero-sized file is deleted from the queue directory. If the download fails, the zero-sized file remains and it’ll be retried the next time cache-prefetcher runs.

Possible values:

  • A valid path

Related options:

  • image_cache_sqlite_db
image_cache_driver = sqlite

(String) The driver to use for image cache management.

This configuration option provides the flexibility to choose between the different image-cache drivers available. An image-cache driver is responsible for providing the essential functions of image-cache like write images to/read images from cache, track age and usage of cached images, provide a list of cached images, fetch size of the cache, queue images for caching and clean up the cache, etc.

The essential functions of a driver are defined in the base class glance.image_cache.drivers.base.Driver. All image-cache drivers (existing and prospective) must implement this interface. Currently available drivers are sqlite and xattr. These drivers primarily differ in the way they store the information about cached images:

  • The sqlite driver uses a sqlite database (which sits on every glance node locally) to track the usage of cached images.
  • The xattr driver uses the extended attributes of files to store this information. It also requires a filesystem that sets atime on the files when accessed.

Possible values:

  • sqlite
  • xattr

Related options:

  • None
image_cache_max_size = 10737418240

(Integer) The upper limit on cache size, in bytes, after which the cache-pruner cleans up the image cache.

NOTE: This is just a threshold for cache-pruner to act upon. It is NOT a hard limit beyond which the image cache would never grow. In fact, depending on how often the cache-pruner runs and how quickly the cache fills, the image cache can far exceed the size specified here very easily. Hence, care must be taken to appropriately schedule the cache-pruner and in setting this limit.

Glance caches an image when it is downloaded. Consequently, the size of the image cache grows over time as the number of downloads increases. To keep the cache size from becoming unmanageable, it is recommended to run the cache-pruner as a periodic task. When the cache pruner is kicked off, it compares the current size of image cache and triggers a cleanup if the image cache grew beyond the size specified here. After the cleanup, the size of cache is less than or equal to size specified here.

Possible values:

  • Any non-negative integer

Related options:

  • None
image_cache_sqlite_db = cache.db

(String) The relative path to sqlite file database that will be used for image cache management.

This is a relative path to the sqlite file database that tracks the age and usage statistics of image cache. The path is relative to image cache base directory, specified by the configuration option image_cache_dir.

This is a lightweight database with just one table.

Possible values:

  • A valid relative path to sqlite file database

Related options:

  • image_cache_dir
image_cache_stall_time = 86400

(Integer) The amount of time, in seconds, an incomplete image remains in the cache.

Incomplete images are images for which download is in progress. Please see the description of configuration option image_cache_dir for more detail. Sometimes, due to various reasons, it is possible the download may hang and the incompletely downloaded image remains in the incomplete directory. This configuration option sets a time limit on how long the incomplete images should remain in the incomplete directory before they are cleaned up. Once an incomplete image spends more time than is specified here, it’ll be removed by cache-cleaner on its next run.

It is recommended to run cache-cleaner as a periodic task on the Glance API nodes to keep the incomplete images from occupying disk space.

Possible values:

  • Any non-negative integer

Related options:

  • None
scrub_pool_size = 1

(Integer) The size of thread pool to be used for scrubbing images.

When there are a large number of images to scrub, it is beneficial to scrub images in parallel so that the scrub queue stays in control and the backend storage is reclaimed in a timely fashion. This configuration option denotes the maximum number of images to be scrubbed in parallel. The default value is one, which signifies serial scrubbing. Any value above one indicates parallel scrubbing.

Possible values:

  • Any non-zero positive integer

Related options:

  • delayed_delete
scrub_time = 0

(Integer) The amount of time, in seconds, to delay image scrubbing.

When delayed delete is turned on, an image is put into pending_delete state upon deletion until the scrubber deletes its image data. Typically, soon after the image is put into pending_delete state, it is available for scrubbing. However, scrubbing can be delayed until a later point using this configuration option. This option denotes the time period an image spends in pending_delete state before it is available for scrubbing.

It is important to realize that this has storage implications. The larger the scrub_time, the longer the time to reclaim backend storage from deleted images.

Possible values:

  • Any non-negative integer

Related options:

  • delayed_delete
Description of profiler configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[profiler]  
connection_string = messaging://

(String) Connection string for a notifier backend. Default value is messaging:// which sets the notifier to oslo_messaging.

Examples of possible values:

  • messaging://: use oslo_messaging driver for sending notifications.
enabled = False

(Boolean) Enables the profiling for all services on this node. Default value is False (fully disable the profiling feature).

Possible values:

  • True: Enables the feature
  • False: Disables the feature. The profiling cannot be started via this project operations. If the profiling is triggered by another project, this project part will be empty.
hmac_keys = SECRET_KEY

(String) Secret key(s) to use for encrypting context data for performance profiling. This string value should have the following format: <key1>[,<key2>,...<keyn>], where each key is some random string. A user who triggers the profiling via the REST API has to set one of these keys in the headers of the REST API call to include profiling results of this node for this particular project.

Both “enabled” flag and “hmac_keys” config options should be set to enable profiling. Also, to generate correct profiling information across all services at least one key needs to be consistent between OpenStack projects. This ensures it can be used from client side to generate the trace, containing information from all possible resources.
trace_sqlalchemy = False

(Boolean) Enables SQL requests profiling in services. Default value is False (SQL requests won’t be traced).

Possible values:

  • True: Enables SQL requests profiling. Each SQL query will be part of the trace and can the be analyzed by how much time was spent for that.
  • False: Disables SQL requests profiling. The spent time is only shown on a higher level of operations. Single SQL queries cannot be analyzed this way.
Description of Redis configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[matchmaker_redis]  
check_timeout = 20000 (Integer) Time in ms to wait before the transaction is killed.
host = 127.0.0.1 (String) DEPRECATED: Host to locate redis. Replaced by [DEFAULT]/transport_url
password = (String) DEPRECATED: Password for Redis server (optional). Replaced by [DEFAULT]/transport_url
port = 6379 (Port number) DEPRECATED: Use this port to connect to redis host. Replaced by [DEFAULT]/transport_url
sentinel_group_name = oslo-messaging-zeromq (String) Redis replica set name.
sentinel_hosts = (List) DEPRECATED: List of Redis Sentinel hosts (fault tolerance mode) e.g. [host:port, host1:port ... ] Replaced by [DEFAULT]/transport_url
socket_timeout = 10000 (Integer) Timeout in ms on blocking socket operations
wait_timeout = 2000 (Integer) Time in ms to wait between connection attempts.
Description of registry configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]  
admin_password = None (String) DEPRECATED: The administrators password. If “use_user_token” is not in effect, then admin credentials can be specified. This option was considered harmful and has been deprecated in M release. It will be removed in O release. For more information read OSSN-0060. Related functionality with uploading big images has been implemented with Keystone trusts support.
admin_tenant_name = None (String) DEPRECATED: The tenant name of the administrative user. If “use_user_token” is not in effect, then admin tenant name can be specified. This option was considered harmful and has been deprecated in M release. It will be removed in O release. For more information read OSSN-0060. Related functionality with uploading big images has been implemented with Keystone trusts support.
admin_user = None (String) DEPRECATED: The administrators user name. If “use_user_token” is not in effect, then admin credentials can be specified. This option was considered harmful and has been deprecated in M release. It will be removed in O release. For more information read OSSN-0060. Related functionality with uploading big images has been implemented with Keystone trusts support.
auth_region = None (String) DEPRECATED: The region for the authentication service. If “use_user_token” is not in effect and using keystone auth, then region name can be specified. This option was considered harmful and has been deprecated in M release. It will be removed in O release. For more information read OSSN-0060. Related functionality with uploading big images has been implemented with Keystone trusts support.
auth_strategy = noauth (String) DEPRECATED: The strategy to use for authentication. If “use_user_token” is not in effect, then auth strategy can be specified. This option was considered harmful and has been deprecated in M release. It will be removed in O release. For more information read OSSN-0060. Related functionality with uploading big images has been implemented with Keystone trusts support.
auth_url = None (String) DEPRECATED: The URL to the keystone service. If “use_user_token” is not in effect and using keystone auth, then URL of keystone can be specified. This option was considered harmful and has been deprecated in M release. It will be removed in O release. For more information read OSSN-0060. Related functionality with uploading big images has been implemented with Keystone trusts support.
registry_client_ca_file = /etc/ssl/cafile/file.ca

(String) Absolute path to the Certificate Authority file.

Provide a string value representing a valid absolute path to the certificate authority file to use for establishing a secure connection to the registry server.

NOTE: This option must be set if registry_client_protocol is set to https. Alternatively, the GLANCE_CLIENT_CA_FILE environment variable may be set to a filepath of the CA file. This option is ignored if the registry_client_insecure option is set to True.

Possible values:

  • String value representing a valid absolute path to the CA file.

Related options:

  • registry_client_protocol
  • registry_client_insecure
registry_client_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/file.crt

(String) Absolute path to the certificate file.

Provide a string value representing a valid absolute path to the certificate file to use for establishing a secure connection to the registry server.

NOTE: This option must be set if registry_client_protocol is set to https. Alternatively, the GLANCE_CLIENT_CERT_FILE environment variable may be set to a filepath of the certificate file.

Possible values:

  • String value representing a valid absolute path to the certificate file.

Related options:

  • registry_client_protocol
registry_client_insecure = False

(Boolean) Set verification of the registry server certificate.

Provide a boolean value to determine whether or not to validate SSL connections to the registry server. By default, this option is set to False and the SSL connections are validated.

If set to True, the connection to the registry server is not validated via a certifying authority and the registry_client_ca_file option is ignored. This is the registry’s equivalent of specifying –insecure on the command line using glanceclient for the API.

Possible values:

  • True
  • False

Related options:

  • registry_client_protocol
  • registry_client_ca_file
registry_client_key_file = /etc/ssl/key/key-file.pem

(String) Absolute path to the private key file.

Provide a string value representing a valid absolute path to the private key file to use for establishing a secure connection to the registry server.

NOTE: This option must be set if registry_client_protocol is set to https. Alternatively, the GLANCE_CLIENT_KEY_FILE environment variable may be set to a filepath of the key file.

Possible values:

  • String value representing a valid absolute path to the key file.

Related options:

  • registry_client_protocol
registry_client_protocol = http

(String) Protocol to use for communication with the registry server.

Provide a string value representing the protocol to use for communication with the registry server. By default, this option is set to http and the connection is not secure.

This option can be set to https to establish a secure connection to the registry server. In this case, provide a key to use for the SSL connection using the registry_client_key_file option. Also include the CA file and cert file using the options registry_client_ca_file and registry_client_cert_file respectively.

Possible values:

  • http
  • https

Related options:

  • registry_client_key_file
  • registry_client_cert_file
  • registry_client_ca_file
registry_client_timeout = 600

(Integer) Timeout value for registry requests.

Provide an integer value representing the period of time in seconds that the API server will wait for a registry request to complete. The default value is 600 seconds.

A value of 0 implies that a request will never timeout.

Possible values:

  • Zero
  • Positive integer

Related options:

  • None
registry_host = 0.0.0.0

(String) Address the registry server is hosted on.

Possible values:

  • A valid IP or hostname

Related options:

  • None
registry_port = 9191

(Port number) Port the registry server is listening on.

Possible values:

  • A valid port number

Related options:

  • None
Description of replicator configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]  
args = None (Multi-valued) Arguments for the command
chunksize = 65536 (Integer) Amount of data to transfer per HTTP write.
command = None (String) Command to be given to replicator
dontreplicate = created_at date deleted_at location updated_at (String) List of fields to not replicate.
mastertoken = (String) Pass in your authentication token if you have one. This is the token used for the master.
metaonly = False (Boolean) Only replicate metadata, not images.
slavetoken = (String) Pass in your authentication token if you have one. This is the token used for the slave.
token = (String) Pass in your authentication token if you have one. If you use this option the same token is used for both the master and the slave.
Description of scrubber configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]  
wakeup_time = 300

(Integer) Time interval, in seconds, between scrubber runs in daemon mode.

Scrubber can be run either as a cron job or daemon. When run as a daemon, this configuration time specifies the time period between two runs. When the scrubber wakes up, it fetches and scrubs all pending_delete images that are available for scrubbing after taking scrub_time into consideration.

If the wakeup time is set to a large number, there may be a large number of images to be scrubbed for each run. Also, this impacts how quickly the backend storage is reclaimed.

Possible values:

  • Any non-negative integer

Related options:

  • daemon
  • delayed_delete
Description of TaskFlow configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[taskflow_executor]  
conversion_format = raw

(String) Set the desired image conversion format.

Provide a valid image format to which you want images to be converted before they are stored for consumption by Glance. Appropriate image format conversions are desirable for specific storage backends in order to facilitate efficient handling of bandwidth and usage of the storage infrastructure.

By default, conversion_format is not set and must be set explicitly in the configuration file.

The allowed values for this option are raw, qcow2 and vmdk. The raw format is the unstructured disk format and should be chosen when RBD or Ceph storage backends are used for image storage. qcow2 is supported by the QEMU emulator that expands dynamically and supports Copy on Write. The vmdk is another common disk format supported by many common virtual machine monitors like VMWare Workstation.

Possible values:

  • qcow2
  • raw
  • vmdk

Related options:

  • disk_formats
engine_mode = parallel

(String) Set the taskflow engine mode.

Provide a string type value to set the mode in which the taskflow engine would schedule tasks to the workers on the hosts. Based on this mode, the engine executes tasks either in single or multiple threads. The possible values for this configuration option are: serial and parallel. When set to serial, the engine runs all the tasks in a single thread which results in serial execution of tasks. Setting this to parallel makes the engine run tasks in multiple threads. This results in parallel execution of tasks.

Possible values:

  • serial
  • parallel

Related options:

  • max_workers
max_workers = 10

(Integer) Set the number of engine executable tasks.

Provide an integer value to limit the number of workers that can be instantiated on the hosts. In other words, this number defines the number of parallel tasks that can be executed at the same time by the taskflow engine. This value can be greater than one when the engine mode is set to parallel.

Possible values:

  • Integer value greater than or equal to 1

Related options:

  • engine_mode
Description of testing configuration options
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]  
pydev_worker_debug_host = localhost

(String) Host address of the pydev server.

Provide a string value representing the hostname or IP of the pydev server to use for debugging. The pydev server listens for debug connections on this address, facilitating remote debugging in Glance.

Possible values:

  • Valid hostname
  • Valid IP address

Related options:

  • None
pydev_worker_debug_port = 5678

(Port number) Port number that the pydev server will listen on.

Provide a port number to bind the pydev server to. The pydev process accepts debug connections on this port and facilitates remote debugging in Glance.

Possible values:

  • A valid port number

Related options:

  • None
updated: 2019-08-23 19:39
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