glance/doc/source/statuses.rst

Image Statuses

Images in Glance can be in one the following statuses:

• queued

  The image identifier has been reserved for an image in the Glance registry. No image data has been uploaded to Glance.

• saving

  Denotes that an image's raw data is currently being uploaded to Glance. When an image is registered with a call to POST /images and there is an x-image-meta-location header present, that image will never be in the saving status (as the image data is already available in some other location).

• active

  Denotes an image that is fully available in Glance.

• killed

  Denotes that an error occurred during the uploading of an image's data, and that the image is not readable.

• deleted

  Glance has retained the information about the image, but it is no longer available to use. An image in this state will be removed automatically at a later date.

• pending_delete

  This is similiar to deleted, however, Glance has not yet removed the image data. An image in this state is recoverable.