Glance/ImageAliases
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Glance Image aliases
Summary
Users don't always care about the exact version of their chosen OS or snapshot. Only that the OS is the most recent or the application snapshot is the most stable. Image aliases would fix this. Rather than knowing to pick "RHEL 6.4-24017" vs "RHEL 6.4-25001" the users could choose "RHEL 6.X" which the image admin would keep pointed to the most up to date and stable version of that OS. Users don't need to think about it.
Use case examples
You may not care if you get RHEL 6.4.24017 vs RHEL 6.4.25000, only that you get the most recent or most stable version of RHEL in your VM. So you select the "RHEL 6.x" image, which is a pointer to
Assumptions
- You don't need to delete and recreate your disk alias object to change which disk image it points to.
