.. Copyright 2011 OpenStack, LLC All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Using the Glance CLI Tool ========================= Glance ships with a command-line tool for querying and managing Glance. It has a fairly simple but powerful interface of the form:: Usage: glance [options] [args] Where ```` is one of the following: * ``help`` Show detailed help information about a specific command * ``add`` Adds an image to Glance * ``update`` Updates an image's stored metadata in Glance * ``delete`` Deletes an image and its metadata from Glance * ``index`` Lists brief information about *public* images that Glance knows about * ``details`` Lists detailed information about *public* images that Glance knows about * ``show`` Lists detailed information about a specific image * ``clear`` Destroys all **public** images and their associated metadata This document describes how to use the ``glance`` tool for each of the above commands. The ``help`` command -------------------- Issuing the ``help`` command with a ```` argument shows detailed help about a specific command. Running ``glance`` without any arguments shows a brief help message, like so:: $> glance Usage: glance [options] [args] Commands: help Output help for one of the commands below add Adds a new image to Glance update Updates an image's metadata in Glance delete Deletes an image from Glance index Return brief information about images in Glance details Return detailed information about images in Glance show Show detailed information about an image in Glance clear Removes all images and metadata from Glance Member Commands: image-members List members an image is shared with member-images List images shared with a member member-add Grants a member access to an image member-delete Revokes a member's access to an image members-replace Replaces all membership for an image Options: --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit --silent-upload disable progress bar animation and information during upload -v, --verbose Print more verbose output -d, --debug Print more verbose output -H ADDRESS, --host=ADDRESS Address of Glance API host. Default: 0.0.0.0 -p PORT, --port=PORT Port the Glance API host listens on. Default: 9292 -U URL, --url=URL URL of Glance service. This option can be used to specify the hostname, port and protocol (http/https) of the glance server, for example -U https://localhost:9292/v1 Default: None -k, --insecure Explicitly allow glance to perform "insecure" SSL (https) requests. The server's certificate will not be verified against any certificate authorities. This option should be used with caution. -A TOKEN, --os_auth_token=TOKEN Authentication token to use to identify the client to the glance server -I USER, --os_username=USER User name used to acquire an authentication token -K PASSWORD, --os_password=PASSWORD Password used to acquire an authentication token -R REGION, --os_region_name=REGION Region name. When using keystone authentication version 2.0 or later this identifies the region name to use when selecting the service endpoint. A region name must be provided if more than one region endpoint is available -T TENANT, --os_tenant_name=TENANT Tenant name -N AUTH_URL, --os_auth_url=AUTH_URL Authentication URL -S STRATEGY, --os_auth_strategy=STRATEGY Authentication strategy (keystone or noauth) --limit=LIMIT Page size to use while requesting image metadata --marker=MARKER Image index after which to begin pagination --sort_key=KEY Sort results by this image attribute. --sort_dir=[desc|asc] Sort results in this direction. -f, --force Prevent select actions from requesting user confirmation --dry-run Don't actually execute the command, just print output showing what WOULD happen. --can-share Allow member to further share image. With a ```` argument, more information on the command is shown, like so:: $> glance help update glance update [options] Updates an image's metadata in Glance. Specify metadata fields as arguments. Metadata fields that are not specified in the update command will be deleted. All field/value pairs are converted into a mapping that is passed to Glance that represents the metadata for an image. Field names that can be specified: name A name for the image. location An external location to serve out from. copy_from An external location (HTTP, S3 or Swift URI) to copy image content from. is_public If specified, interpreted as a boolean value and sets or unsets the image's availability to the public. protected If specified, interpreted as a boolean value and enables or disables deletion protection for the image. disk_format Format of the disk image container_format Format of the container All other field names are considered to be custom properties so be careful to spell field names correctly. .. _glance-add: The ``add`` command ------------------- The ``add`` command is used to do both of the following: * Store virtual machine image data and metadata about that image in Glance * Let Glance know about an existing virtual machine image that may be stored somewhere else We cover both use cases below. Important Information about Uploading Images ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before we go over the commands for adding an image to Glance, it is important to understand that Glance **does not currently inspect** the image files you add to it. In other words, **Glance only understands what you tell it, via attributes and custom properties**. If the file extension of the file you upload to Glance ends in '.vhd', Glance **does not** know that the image you are uploading has a disk format of ``vhd``. You have to **tell** Glance that the image you are uploading has a disk format by using the ``disk_format=vhd`` on the command line (see more below). By the same token, Glance does not currently allow you to upload "multi-part" disk images at once. **The common operation of bundling a kernel image and ramdisk image into a machine image is not done automagically by Glance.** Store virtual machine image data and metadata ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When adding an actual virtual machine image to Glance, you use the ``add`` command. You will pass metadata about the VM image on the command line, and you will use a standard shell redirect to stream the image data file to ``glance``. Let's walk through a simple example. Suppose we have a virtual disk image in qcow2 format stored on our local filesystem at ``/tmp/images/myimage.img``. We'd also like to tell Glance that this image should be called "My Image", and that the image should be public -- anyone should be able to fetch it. Here is how we'd upload this image to Glance:: $> glance add name="My Image" is_public=true \ container_format=bare disk_format=qcow2 < /tmp/images/myimage.img Note that the disk container formats are no longer defaulted and are thus strictly required. However, if only one of disk or container format is specified and is in Amazon format, the other parameter defaults to the specified disk or container format value. If Glance was able to successfully upload and store your VM image data and metadata attributes, you would see something like this:: $> glance add name="My Image" is_public=true \ container_format=bare disk_format=qcow2 < /tmp/images/myimage.img Added new image with ID: 991baaf9-cc0d-4183-a201-8facdf1a1430 You can use the ``--verbose`` (or ``-v``) command-line option to print some more information about the metadata that was saved with the image:: $> glance --verbose add name="My Image" is_public=true \ container_format=bare disk_format=qcow2 < /tmp/images/myimage.img Added new image with ID: 541424be-27b1-49d6-a55b-6430b8ae0f5f Returned the following metadata for the new image: checksum => 2cec138d7dae2aa59038ef8c9aec2390 container_format => bare created_at => 2011-02-22T19:20:53.298556 deleted => False deleted_at => None disk_format => qcow2 id => 541424be-27b1-49d6-a55b-6430b8ae0f5f is_public => True min_disk => 0 min_ram => 0 name => My Image owner => tenant1 properties => {} protected => False size => 58520278 status => active updated_at => 2011-02-22T19:20:54.451291 Completed in 0.6141 sec. If you are unsure about what will be added, you can use the ``--dry-run`` command-line option, which will simply show you what *would* have happened:: $> glance --dry-run add name="Foo" distro="Ubuntu" is_public=True \ container_format=bare disk_format=qcow2 < /tmp/images/myimage.img Dry run. We would have done the following: Add new image with metadata: container_format => bare disk_format => qcow2 id => None is_public => False min_disk => 0 min_ram => 0 name => Foo properties => {'is_public': 'True', 'distro': 'Ubuntu'} protected => False This is useful for detecting problems and for seeing what the default field values supplied by ``glance`` are. For instance, there was a typo in the command above (the ``is_public`` field was incorrectly spelled ``is_public`` which resulted in the image having an ``is_public`` custom property added to the image and the *real* ``is_public`` field value being `False` (the default) and not `True`... Examples of uploading different kinds of images ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To upload an EC2 tarball VM image:: $> glance add name="ubuntu-10.10-amd64" is_public=true \ container_format=ovf disk_format=raw \ < maverick-server-uec-amd64.tar.gz To upload an EC2 tarball VM image with an associated property (e.g., distro):: $> glance add name="ubuntu-10.10-amd64" is_public=true \ container_format=ovf disk_format=raw \ distro="ubuntu 10.10" < /root/maverick-server-uec-amd64.tar.gz To reference an EC2 tarball VM image available at an external URL:: $> glance add name="ubuntu-10.04-amd64" is_public=true \ container_format=ovf disk_format=raw \ location="http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/lucid/current/\ lucid-server-uec-amd64.tar.gz" To upload a copy of that same EC2 tarball VM image:: $> glance add name="ubuntu-10.04-amd64" is_public=true \ container_format=bare disk_format=raw \ copy_from="http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/lucid/current/lucid-server-uec-amd64.tar.gz" To upload a qcow2 image:: $> glance add name="ubuntu-11.04-amd64" is_public=true \ container_format=bare disk_format=qcow2 \ distro="ubuntu 11.04" < /data/images/rock_natty.qcow2 To upload kernel, ramdisk and machine image files:: $> glance add disk_format=aki container_format=aki \ name="maverick-server-uec-amd64-vmlinuz-virtual" \ < maverick-server-uec-amd64-vmlinuz-virtual $> glance add disk_format=ari container_format=ari \ name="maverick-server-uec-amd64-loader" \ < maverick-server-uec-amd64-loader # Determine what the ids associated with the kernel and ramdisk files $> glance index # Assuming the ids are 94c2adcf-1bca-4881-92f1-62fe7593f108 and 6e75405d-7de0-4c99-b936-87f98ff4959f: $> glance add disk_format=ami container_format=ami \ name="maverick-server-uec-amd64" \ kernel_id=94c2adcf-1bca-4881-92f1-62fe7593f108 \ ramdisk_id=6e75405d-7de0-4c99-b936-87f98ff4959f \ < maverick-server-uec-amd64.img To upload a raw image file:: $> glance add disk_format=raw container_format=bare \ name="maverick-server-uec-amd64.img_v2" < maverick-server-uec-amd64.img Register a virtual machine image in another location ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sometimes, you already have stored the virtual machine image in some non-Glance location -- perhaps even a location you have no write access to -- and you want to tell Glance where this virtual machine image is located and some metadata about it. The ``add`` command can do this for you. When registering an image in this way, the only difference is that you do not use a shell redirect to stream a virtual machine image file into Glance, but instead, you tell Glance where to find the existing virtual machine image by setting the ``location`` field. Below is an example of doing this. Let's assume that there is a virtual machine image located at the URL ``http://example.com/images/myimage.vhd``. We can register this image with Glance using the following:: $> glance add name="Some web image" disk_format=vhd \ container_format=ovf location="http://example.com/images/myimage.vhd" Added new image with ID: 71c675ab-d94f-49cd-a114-e12490b328d9 The ``update`` command ---------------------- After uploading/adding a virtual machine image to Glance, it is not possible to modify the actual virtual machine image -- images are read-only after all -- however, it *is* possible to update any metadata about the image after you add it to Glance. The ``update`` command allows you to update the metadata fields of a stored image. You use this command like so:: glance update [field1=value1 field2=value2 ...] Let's say we have an image with identifier '9afc4097-1c70-45c3-8c12-1b897f083faa' that we wish to change the 'is_public' attribute of the image from False to True. The following would accomplish this:: $> glance update 9afc4097-1c70-45c3-8c12-1b897f083faa is_public=true Updated image 9afc4097-1c70-45c3-8c12-1b897f083faa Using the ``--verbose`` flag will show you all the updated data about the image:: $> glance --verbose update 97243446-9c74-42af-a31a-34ba16555868 \ is_public=true Updated image 97243446-9c74-42af-a31a-34ba16555868 Updated image metadata for image 97243446-9c74-42af-a31a-34ba16555868: URI: http://glance.example.com/v1/images/97243446-9c74-42af-a31a-34ba16555868 Id: 97243446-9c74-42af-a31a-34ba16555868 Public: Yes Protected: No Name: My Image Status: active Size: 58520278 Disk format: raw Container format: ovf Minimum Ram Required (MB): 0 Minimum Disk Required (GB): 0 Owner: tenant1 Completed in 0.0596 sec. The ``delete`` command ---------------------- You can delete an image by using the ``delete`` command, shown below:: $> glance --verbose -f delete 660c96a7-ef95-45e7-8e48-595df6937675 Delete image 660c96a7-ef95-45e7-8e48-595df6937675? [y/N] y Deleted image 660c96a7-ef95-45e7-8e48-595df6937675 The ``index`` command --------------------- The ``index`` command displays brief information about public images available in Glance alongside any private images you can access, as shown below:: $> glance index ID Name Disk Format Container Format Size ------------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------- -------------------- -------------- baa87554-34d2-4e9e-9949-e9e5620422bb Ubuntu 10.10 vhd ovf 58520278 9e1aede2-dc6e-4981-9f3e-93dee24d48b1 Ubuntu 10.04 ami ami 58520278 771c0223-27b4-4789-a83d-79eb9c166578 Fedora 9 vdi bare 3040 cb8f4908-ef58-4e4b-884e-517cf09ead86 Vanilla Linux 2.6.22 qcow2 bare 0 Image metadata such as 'name', 'disk_format', 'container_format' and 'status' may be used to filter the results of an index or details command. These commands also accept 'size_min' and 'size_max' as lower and upper bounds of the image attribute 'size.' Any unrecognized fields are handled as custom image properties. The 'limit' and 'marker' options are used by the index and details commands to control pagination. The 'marker' indicates the last record that was seen by the user. The page of results returned will begin after the provided image ID. The 'limit' param indicates the page size. Each request to the api will be restricted to returning a maximum number of results. Without the 'force' option, the user will be prompted before each page of results is fetched from the API. Results from index and details commands may be ordered using the 'sort_key' and 'sort_dir' options. Any image attribute may be used for 'sort_key', while only 'asc' or 'desc' are allowed for 'sort_dir'. The ``details`` command ----------------------- The ``details`` command displays detailed information about the *public* images available in Glance, as shown below:: $> glance details ============================================================================== URI: http://example.com/images/baa87554-34d2-4e9e-9949-e9e5620422bb Id: baa87554-34d2-4e9e-9949-e9e5620422bb Public: Yes Protected: No Name: Ubuntu 10.10 Status: active Size: 58520278 Disk format: vhd Container format: ovf Minimum Ram Required (MB): 0 Minimum Disk Required (GB): 0 Owner: None Property 'distro_version': 10.10 Property 'distro': Ubuntu ============================================================================== URI: http://example.com/images/9e1aede2-dc6e-4981-9f3e-93dee24d48b1 Id: 9e1aede2-dc6e-4981-9f3e-93dee24d48b1 Public: Yes Protected: No Name: Ubuntu 10.04 Status: active Size: 58520278 Disk format: ami Container format: ami Minimum Ram Required (MB): 0 Minimum Disk Required (GB): 0 Owner: None Property 'distro_version': 10.04 Property 'distro': Ubuntu ============================================================================== URI: http://example.com/images/771c0223-27b4-4789-a83d-79eb9c166578 Id: 771c0223-27b4-4789-a83d-79eb9c166578 Public: Yes Protected: No Name: Fedora 9 Status: active Size: 3040 Disk format: vdi Container format: bare Minimum Ram Required (MB): 512 Minimum Disk Required (GB): 10 Owner: None Property 'distro_version': 9 Property 'distro': Fedora ============================================================================== URI: http://example.com/images/cb8f4908-ef58-4e4b-884e-517cf09ead86 Id: cb8f4908-ef58-4e4b-884e-517cf09ead86 Public: Yes Protected: No Name: Vanilla Linux 2.6.22 Status: active Size: 0 Disk format: qcow2 Container format: bare Minimum Ram Required (MB): 0 Minimum Disk Required (GB): 0 Owner: tenant1 ============================================================================== The ``show`` command -------------------- The ``show`` command displays detailed information about a specific image, specified with ````, as shown below:: $> glance show 771c0223-27b4-4789-a83d-79eb9c166578 URI: http://example.com/images/771c0223-27b4-4789-a83d-79eb9c166578 Id: 771c0223-27b4-4789-a83d-79eb9c166578 Public: Yes Protected: No Name: Fedora 9 Status: active Size: 3040 Disk format: vdi Container format: bare Minimum Ram Required (MB): 512 Minimum Disk Required (GB): 10 Owner: None Property 'distro_version': 9 Property 'distro': Fedora The ``clear`` command --------------------- The ``clear`` command is an administrative command that deletes **ALL** images and all image metadata. Passing the ``--verbose`` command will print brief information about all the images that were deleted, as shown below:: $> glance --verbose clear Deleting image ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 "Some web image" ... done Deleting image dc9698b4-e9f1-4f75-b777-1a897633e488 "Some other web image" ... done Completed in 0.0328 sec. The ``image-members`` Command ----------------------------- The ``image-members`` command displays the list of members with which a specific image, specified with ````, is shared, as shown below:: $> glance image-members ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 tenant1 tenant2 * (*: Can share image) The ``member-images`` Command ----------------------------- The ``member-images`` command displays the list of images which are shared with a specific member, specified with ````, as shown below:: $> glance member-images tenant1 ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 dc9698b4-e9f1-4f75-b777-1a897633e488 * (*: Can share image) The ``member-add`` Command -------------------------- The ``member-add`` command grants a member, specified with ````, access to a private image, specified with ````. The ``--can-share`` flag can be given to allow the member to share the image, as shown below:: $> glance member-add ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 tenantId1 $> glance member-add ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 tenantId2 --can-share The ``member-delete`` Command ----------------------------- The ``member-delete`` command revokes the access of a member, specified with ````, to a private image, specified with ````, as shown below:: $> glance member-delete ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 tenant1 $> glance member-delete ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 tenant2 The ``members-replace`` Command ------------------------------- The ``members-replace`` command revokes all existing memberships on a private image, specified with ````, and replaces them with a membership for one member, specified with ````. The ``--can-share`` flag can be given to allow the member to share the image, as shown below:: $> glance members-replace ab15b8d3-8f33-4467-abf2-9f89a042a8c4 tenant1 \ --can-share The command is given in plural form to make it clear that all existing memberships are affected by the command.