Wayne Okuma 2e7de07c5a Glance Metadata Definitions Catalog - API

Implements: blueprint metadata-schema-catalog

A common API hosted by the Glance service for vendors, admins,
services, and users to meaningfully define available key / value
pair and tag metadata. The intent is to enable better metadata
collaboration across artifacts, services, and projects for
OpenStack users.

This is about the definition of the available metadata that can
be used on different types of resources (images, artifacts,
volumes, flavors, aggregates, etc). A definition includes the
properties type, its key, it's description, and it's constraints.
This catalogue will not store the values for specific instance
properties.

 - REST API for CRUD on metadef namespace
 - REST API for CRUD on metadef objects
 - REST API for CRUD on metadef properites
 - REST API for CRUD on metadef resource types
 - REST API for JSON schemas on metadef API's

Change-Id: I8e6d88ffee9a9337bf82b1da85648ba638a154ab
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Co-Authored-By: Lakshmi N Sampath <lakshmi.sampath@hp.com>
Co-Authored-By: Wayne Okuma <wayne.okuma@hp.com>
Co-Authored-By: Travis Tripp <travis.tripp@hp.com>
Co-Authored-By: Pawel Koniszewski <pawel.koniszewski@intel.com>
Co-Authored-By: Michal Jastrzebski <michal.jastrzebski@intel.com>
Co-Authored-By: Michal Dulko <michal.dulko@intel.com>

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Welcome to Glance's documentation!

The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images. Glance has a RESTful API that allows querying of VM image metadata as well as retrieval of the actual image.

VM images made available through Glance can be stored in a variety of locations from simple filesystems to object-storage systems like the OpenStack Swift project.

Glance, as with all OpenStack projects, is written with the following design guidelines in mind:

Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors
Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads
Fault tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
Recoverable: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
Open standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api

This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree. Additional documentation on Glance and other components of OpenStack can be found on the OpenStack wiki.

Concepts

identifiers statuses formats common-image-properties

Installing/Configuring Glance

installing configuring authentication policies

Operating Glance

controllingservers db cache notifications

Using Glance

glanceapi glanceclient glancemetadefcatalogapi

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