April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
In Chapter 2, Exploring AWS Cloud, we discussed different formats of image files such as raw, qcow2, and so on. The Glance image database stores these images, which can be used to launch VMs.
We can upload different formats of image files to the Glance image store. The following code uploads a qcow2 image for an Ubuntu operating system. We use the create_image() function and pass the image file path to it. The wait parameter makes the function wait for the image to be uploaded completely before returning back to the calling program:
def upload_image(conn): print("Upload Image:") # Load fake image data for the example. data = 'This is fake image data.' # Build the image attributes and upload the image. image_attrs = { 'name': ...