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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788398763
Length 398 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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James Denton James Denton
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Egle Sigler Egle Sigler
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Cody Bunch Cody Bunch
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Kevin Jackson Kevin Jackson
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition
Contributors
Preface
Another Book You May Enjoy
1. Installing OpenStack with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 2. The OpenStack Client 3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service 4. Neutron – OpenStack Networking 5. Nova – OpenStack Compute 6. Glance – OpenStack Image Service 7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage 8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage 9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible 10. Using OpenStack Dashboard Index

Managing images


Image management in an OpenStack environment can be achieved using the openstack command-line tool, the Horizon dashboard, or directly via the Glance REST-based API. Images can be sourced directly from the internet or created and manipulated with tools such as virsh, virt-manager, growpart, and cloud-init. Custom image creation will be covered later in this chapter.

Uploading images

When creating an image in OpenStack, one must provide attributes that describe the image. These attributes include the image name, the disk format, and the container format. Images can be public, private, or shared among multiple projects.

Getting ready

Images for the following examples can be downloaded from the following locations:

Note

Over time, image locations on the web can change and the URLs in this book may be unavailable. Feel...

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