January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 54m
English
Image management in an OpenStack environment can be achieved using the openstack command-line tool, the Horizon dashboard, or directly via the Glance REST-based API. Images can be sourced directly from the internet or created and manipulated with tools such as virsh, virt-manager, growpart, and cloud-init. Custom image creation will be covered later in this chapter.
When creating an image in OpenStack, one must provide attributes that describe the image. These attributes include the image name, the disk format, and the container format. Images can be public, private, or shared among multiple projects.
Images for the following examples can be downloaded from the following locations:
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