glance/doc/source/cli/glancemanage.rst

glance-manage

Glance Management Utility

SYNOPSIS

glance-manage [options]

DESCRIPTION

glance-manage is a utility for managing and configuring a Glance installation. One important use of glance-manage is to setup the database. To do this run:

glance-manage db_sync

Note: glance-manage commands can be run either like this:

glance-manage db sync

or with the db commands concatenated, like this:

glance-manage db_sync

COMMANDS

db

This is the prefix for the commands below when used with a space rather than a _. For example "db version".

db_version

This will print the current migration level of a glance database.

db_upgrade [VERSION]

This will take an existing database and upgrade it to the specified VERSION.

db_version_control

Place the database under migration control.

db_sync [VERSION]

Place an existing database under migration control and upgrade it to the specified VERSION.

db_expand

Run this command to expand the database as the first step of a rolling upgrade process.

db_migrate

Run this command to migrate the database as the second step of a rolling upgrade process.

db_contract

Run this command to contract the database as the last step of a rolling upgrade process.

db_export_metadefs [PATH | PREFIX]

Export the metadata definitions into json format. By default the definitions are exported to /etc/glance/metadefs directory. Note: this command will overwrite existing files in the supplied or default path.

db_load_metadefs [PATH]

Load the metadata definitions into glance database. By default the definitions are imported from /etc/glance/metadefs directory.

db_unload_metadefs

Unload the metadata definitions. Clears the contents of all the glance db tables including metadef_namespace_resource_types, metadef_tags, metadef_objects, metadef_resource_types, metadef_namespaces and metadef_properties.

OPTIONS

General Options

CONFIGURATION

The following paths are searched for a glance-manage.conf file in the following order:

• ~/.glance
• ~/
• /etc/glance
• /etc

All options set in glance-manage.conf override those set in glance-registry.conf and glance-api.conf.