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You're reading from OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788398763

Length 398 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

OpenStack

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

Kevin Jackson

Cody Bunch

Egle Sigler

James Denton

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition

Contributors

Preface

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1. Installing OpenStack with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. The OpenStack Client

3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service

4. Neutron – OpenStack Networking

5. Nova – OpenStack Compute

6. Glance – OpenStack Image Service

7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage

8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage

9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible

10. Using OpenStack Dashboard

Index

Introduction to OpenStack Image services

The OpenStack Image service, otherwise known as Glance, is a service that allows users to register, discover, and retrieve virtual machine images for use in an OpenStack cloud. Images made available through the OpenStack Image service can be stored in a variety of formats and backend locations, from local filesystem storage to distributed filesystems such as OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) and Ceph.

The OpenStack Image service is composed of two major components: the glance-api service and the glance-registry service. Users interface with the glance-api service indirectly when performing commands to create, list, delete, or otherwise manage images using OpenStack clients. The glance-registry service is responsible for connecting to the backend database and storing or retrieving images.