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Copyright 2010 OpenStack Foundation
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All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
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not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
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a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
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WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
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under the License.
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Welcome to Glance's documentation!
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==================================
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The Glance project provides a service where users can upload and discover
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data assets that are meant to be used with other services. This currently
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includes images and metadata definitions.
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Glance image services include discovering, registering, and
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retrieving virtual machine images. Glance has a RESTful API that allows
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querying of VM image metadata as well as retrieval of the actual image.
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VM images made available through Glance can be stored in a variety of
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locations from simple filesystems to object-storage systems like the
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OpenStack Swift project.
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Glance, as with all OpenStack projects, is written with the following design
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guidelines in mind:
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* **Component based architecture**: Quickly add new behaviors
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* **Highly available**: Scale to very serious workloads
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* **Fault tolerant**: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
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* **Recoverable**: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
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* **Open standards**: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
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This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source
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tree. Additional documentation on Glance and other components of OpenStack can
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be found on the `OpenStack wiki`_.
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.. _`OpenStack wiki`: http://wiki.openstack.org
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Glance Background Concepts
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==========================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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architecture
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database_architecture
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domain_model
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identifiers
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statuses
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tasks
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formats
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common-image-properties
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metadefs-concepts
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Installing/Configuring Glance
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=============================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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installing
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configuring
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authentication
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policies
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image-location-strategy-modules
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artifact-types
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flows
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property-protections
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opts
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Operating Glance
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================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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controllingservers
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db
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cache
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notifications
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Using Glance
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============
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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glanceapi
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glanceclient
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glancemetadefcatalogapi
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Glance Manual Pages
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===================
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.. toctree::
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:glob:
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:maxdepth: 1
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man/*
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Contributing to Glance
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======================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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contributing/index
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