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Hybrid Cloud for Developers
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

by Manoj Hirway
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Glance – OpenStack Imaging Service

OpenStack Glance is an image repository that stores virtual disk images. Users can upload new images and also take a snapshot of a running virtual machine and store it as an image. The snapshot can then be used as a template to launch new virtual machines. Glance uses a database to store the images and its metadata.

Glance supports the following image formats:

  • AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
  • AKI (Amazon Kernel Image)
  • ARI (Amazon Ram Disk)
  • ISO (archive format for CDs)
  • qcow2 (QEMU/KVM image format)
  • raw (raw unstructured format)
  • vhd (Hyper-V format )
  • vhdx (enhanced vhd format)
  • vdi (QEMU/VirtualBox format)
  • vmdk (VMware format)

Glance also supports the following container formats:

  • bare (no metadata)
  • ova (OVA tar ...
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