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Glance API Specification

Glance <=> Nova Integration requires these components:

• Glance - VM Image Management Service
  • Parallax - Image Registry service
  • Teller - Image Delivery service
• Nova Integration
  • `nova.image.service.GlanceImageService` - An adapter in Nova to use Glance for retrieving and querying for images
    • `nova.image.service.ParallaxClient` - A client tool for querying Parallax about available images and for adding and updating image information
    • `nova.image.service.TellerClient` - A client tool for the chunked retrieval of an image

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Parallax API Commands

This section describes the Parallax REST API for creating, listing, modifying, and deleting images.

Fetch id/name basic information on all public images

GET http://parallax.openstack.org/images

Returns a mapping containing a list of mappings containing details information about the public images encoded in JSON:

{
"images":
  [
  {"id": 1, "name": "My Image 1"},
  {"id": 2, "name": "My Image 2"},
  ]
}

Fetch detailed information on all public images

GET http://parallax.openstack.org/images/detail

Returns a mapping containing a list of mappings containing details information about the public images encoded in JSON:

{
"images":
  [
    {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "My Image",
    "status": "available",
    "image_type": "kernel"
    "is_public": true,
    "metadata": { "mykey": "myvalue" },
    "files": [ { "location": "swift://user:passwd@acct/container/obj.tar.gz.0",
                 "size": 101 } ]
    }
  ]
}

Notes

The `metadata` element is a mapping of custom metadata the image may have saved with it.

The `files` element is a list of mappings containing the chunks comprising an image along with the chunk's size

Fetch a single image's metadata

GET http://parallax.openstack.org/images/<ID>

Returns the image's metadata encoded in JSON:

{
"image":
  {
  "id": 1,
  "name": "My Image",
  "status": "available",
  "image_type": "kernel"
  "is_public": true,
  "metadata": { "mykey": "myvalue" },
  "files": [ { "location": "swift://user:passwd@acct/container/obj.tar.gz.0",
             "size": 101 } ]
  }
}

Notes

The reason the returned dict contains only a single element, 'image', is for XML conversion purposes, where the root element will be `<image>` and not the root XML namespace.

The `metadata` element is a mapping of custom metadata the image may have saved with it.

The `files` element is a list of mappings containing the chunks comprising an image along with the chunk's size

Exceptions

404:: Image was not found

Register/create a new image

In keeping with both the EC2 and Rackspace modus operandi, new images are created in the system by specifying an already-running instance and giving the new image a name. A new image is created by looking at the existing instance and creating a snapshot of that instance.

POST http://parallax.openstack.org/images

Request Elements

Element Name	Required?	Type
name	Yes	String
instanceId	Yes	String
tags	No	Mapping

Examples

Request

The body of the request shall be a JSON encoded mapping of the image's metadata:

{
"image":
  {
  "name": "Fedora 11 (database ops)",
  "instanceId": "i-10dflka",
  "tags": {"purpose": "database"},
  }
}

Response

The returned response, will be a JSON encoded mapping of information about the newly-created image in Parallax, including a populated `id` column with the new image's internal identifier and a status of the request:

{
"request":
  {
  "requestId": "00e8da9b-9ae8-4bdd-af76-af89bed2262f"
  },
"image":
  {
  "id": 12345678,
  "name": "Fedora 11 (database ops)",
  "status": "pending",
  "tags": { "purpose": "database" },
  }
}

Notes

The `tags` element is a mapping of custom metadata the image may have saved with it.

Update an existing image's metadata

PUT http://parallax.openstack.org/images/<ID>

The body of the request shall be a JSON encoded mapping of the image's metadata:

{
"image":
  {
  "id": 2349823,
  "name": "My Image",
  "status": "disabled",
  "image_type": "kernel"
  "is_public": true,
  "metadata": { "mykey": "myvalue" },
  "files": [ { "location": "swift://user:passwd@acct/container/obj.tar.gz.0",
             "size": 101 } ]
  }
}

The returned response, if successful, will be a JSON encoded mapping of the updated image metadata in Parallax:

{
"image":
  {
  "id": 2349823,
  "name": "My Image",
  "status": "disabled",
  "image_type": "kernel"
  "is_public": true,
  "metadata": { "mykey": "myvalue" },
  "files": [ { "location": "swift://user:passwd@acct/container/obj.tar.gz.0",
             "size": 101 } ]
  }
}

Notes

The reason the body dict and result dict contains only a single element, 'image', is for XML conversion purposes, where the root element will be `<image>` and not the root XML namespace.

The `metadata` element is a mapping of custom metadata the image may have saved with it.

The `files` element is a list of mappings containing the chunks comprising an image along with the chunk's size

Exceptions

404:: Image was not found

Delete an existing image from the registry

DELETE http://parallax.openstack.org/images/<ID>

The body of the request will be ignored.

Exceptions

404:: Image was not found

Teller API Commands

This section describes the Teller REST API.

Fetch an Image

GET /images?uri=<Parallax URI for Image>

Returns the virtual machine image data as response body.

Exceptions

404:: Image was not found