Glance-property-protections-product

Press Release

Protections Now Available for Image Properties

The OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) proudly announces the availability of property protections in the Havana release. Many providers use image properties to provide information to a billing service or to a Nova extension, and it's important that image owners not modify the values of these properties. Or it may be the case that a provider wants to encourage image sharing and image discovery by providing some standard image properties that image owners can use. Or a provider may wish to store hidden system information on an image.

This feature enables a provider to configure Create-Read-Update-Delete permissions on image properties on a per-name basis using a simple pythonic configuration file. The feature is aimed at cloud providers in their capacity as glance admin; image owners do not have the ability to put protections on owner-created properties.