January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 54m
English
By default, images are available for use immediately upon completion of the uploading process. At times, it may be necessary to deactivate an image to prevent users from booting instances with the image, especially in cases where the image may be outdated but must be retained for archival purposes.
Images can be deactivated using the openstack image set command with the --deactivate argument.
When deactivating an image, ensure that you are authenticated as an administrator or are the owner of the image. You will need the following details, at a minimum:
For our examples, the following will be used:
COOKBOOK_UBUNTU_IMAGEWith the OpenStack client installed ...
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