diff --git a/doc/config-reference/ch_imageservice.xml b/doc/config-reference/ch_imageservice.xml
index 3e410d4456..1450f4cae3 100644
--- a/doc/config-reference/ch_imageservice.xml
+++ b/doc/config-reference/ch_imageservice.xml
@@ -27,23 +27,17 @@
     <para>You can modify many options in the OpenStack Image Service.
     The following tables provide a comprehensive list.</para>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-common.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-amqp.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-api.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-db.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-imagecache.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-logging.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-matchmaker.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-paste.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-policy.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-qpid.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-rabbitmq.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-redis.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-registry.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-rpc.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-ssl.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-testing.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-wsgi.xml"/>
-    <xi:include href="../common/tables/glance-zmq.xml"/>
+   <xi:include href="image-service/section_image-service-api.xml"/>
+   <xi:include href="image-service/section_image-service-rpc.xml"/>
    <xi:include href="image-service/section_image-service-ISO-support.xml"/>
    <xi:include href="image-service/section_image-service-backends.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="image-service/section_image-service-sample-configuration-files.xml" />
diff --git a/doc/config-reference/image-service/section_image-service-api.xml b/doc/config-reference/image-service/section_image-service-api.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fdb1ab755d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/config-reference/image-service/section_image-service-api.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<section xml:id="image-configuring-api"
+    xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+    xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+    version="5.0">
+   <title>Configure the API</title>
+   <para>The Image Service has two APIs: the user-facing API, and
+   the registry API, which is for internal requests that require
+   access to the database.</para>
+   <para>Both of the APIs currently have two major versions, v1 and v2.
+   It is possible to run either or both version, by setting appropriate
+   values of <literal>enable_v1_api</literal>,
+   <literal>enable_v2_api</literal>, <literal>enable_v1_registry</literal> and
+   <literal>enable_v2_registry</literal>. If the v2 API is used, running
+   <systemitem class="service">glance-registry</systemitem> is optional, as
+   v2 of <systemitem class="service">glance-api</systemitem>
+   can connect directly to the database.</para>
+   <para>Tables of all options used to configure the APIs, including enabling
+   SSL and modifying WSGI settings are found below.</para>
+   <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-api.xml"/>
+   <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-ssl.xml"/>
+   <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-wsgi.xml"/>
+</section>
diff --git a/doc/config-reference/image-service/section_image-service-rpc.xml b/doc/config-reference/image-service/section_image-service-rpc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..944615cb92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/config-reference/image-service/section_image-service-rpc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<section xml:id="image-configuring-rpc"
+  xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+  xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+  xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0">
+  <title>Configure the RPC messaging system</title>
+  <para>OpenStack projects use an open standard for messaging
+    middleware known as AMQP. This messaging middleware enables the
+    OpenStack services that run on multiple servers to talk to each
+    other. The OpenStack common library project, oslo, supports three
+    implementations of AMQP: <application>RabbitMQ</application>,
+      <application>Qpid</application>, and
+      <application>ZeroMQ</application>.</para>
+  <para>The following tables contain settings to configure the
+    messaging middleware for the Image Service:</para>
+  <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-rabbitmq.xml"/>
+  <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-qpid.xml"/>
+  <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-zmq.xml"/>
+  <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-amqp.xml"/>
+  <xi:include href="../../common/tables/glance-rpc.xml"/>
+</section>
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