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Welcome to Glance's documentation!
The Image service (glance) project provides a service where users can upload and discover data assets that are meant to be used with other services. This currently includes images and metadata definitions.
Glance image services include discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine (VM) 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.
To learn how to contribute to Glance, see:
contributing/index
Ocata
To install Glance, see the Ocata Image service install guide for each distribution:
Newton
To install Glance, see the Newton Image service install guide for each distribution:
Developer reference
architecture database_architecture database_migrations domain_model domain_implementation
User guide
identifiers statuses formats common-image-properties metadefs-concepts glanceapi glanceclient glancemetadefcatalogapi signature api/modules
Administration guide
tasks configuring sample-configuration authentication policies flows property-protections opts/index requirements
Operating Glance
controllingservers db rollingupgrades cache notifications