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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788398763

Length 398 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

OpenStack

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

James Denton

Egle Sigler

Cody Bunch

Kevin Jackson

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

Common OpenStack image tasks

This section outlines a number of steps, intended as a quick overview only, when operating against the OpenStack Image service (known as Glance). For more detailed information and explanation of each task, refer to Chapter 6, Glance – OpenStack Image Service.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have the OpenStack clients installed, as described in the first recipes in this chapter.

How to do it…

Carry out the following steps to create and modify images in OpenStack:

Uploading an image to Glance

Uploading an image to OpenStack is achieved with the following. To upload, a QCOW2 image such as one provided by CirrOS for testing, carry out the following command:

openstack image create
    --container-type bare
    --disk-format qcow2
    --public
    --file
 /path/to/cirros-0.3.5-x86_64-disk.img

Downloading an image or snapshot from Glance as a file

To download an image from Glance, perhaps for copying to another environment or to store as an offsite backup, carry out the following...

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