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Experience a seamless, integrated platform for all your image storage needs. Effortlessly share images across tenants and enjoy native integration with the block storage platform. Powered by Glance, this service simplifies and enhances your cloud experience.
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Efficient Image Management
Reliable Image Service for Streamlined Operations
Our Image Service provides efficient image management with features like snapshots, signed image validation, and seamless integration with block storage.
- Simple API
Leverage a simple yet powerful API to upload images, making it easy to add new images to your environment and streamline your operations.
- Snapshots
Create snapshots of server images for backup or replication, making it easy to preserve and duplicate your configurations.
- Efficient Operation
Utilize copy-on-write for efficient booting of servers and cost-effective storage, optimizing resource utilization and operational efficiency.
- Signed Images
Ensure the integrity and security of your images with signed image validation, providing an extra layer of protection for your data.
- Image Sharing
Share multiple image types across projects or with specific users, providing flexibility and control over image distribution.
- Block Storage Integration
Seamlessly integrate with block storage, leveraging Cinder for efficient image storage and management.
Central Image Repository
Enjoy stress-free updates through OpenStack’s centralized image storage service.
Duplication
OpenStack’s image storage service provides users with the ability to copy or take a snapshot of a server image and store it away.Resolves Configuration Drift
Through the immutable server and centralized image repository that encompasses your entire infrastructure, updates are made unanimously, eliminating the possibility of configuration drift.
Makes Use of Copy-on-Write
Employ OpenStack’s image storage’s copy-on-write to ensure quick and efficient booting of your servers.
Saves Money
Through copy-on-write’s thin provisioning, users can reduce their disk usage, in turn reducing their costs.Saves Time
Stored images can be used as templates to get new servers up and running quickly and more consistently if you are provisioning multiple servers instead of installing a server operating system and configuring additional services manually.
Signed Image Validation
Maintain image security through signed image validation using OpenStack’s Glance.
Secure Uploads
Glance enables the validation of uploaded image data before storing it. This way, should the validation be unsuccessful, the upload will fail, and the image will be deleted.Secure Downloads
OpenStack’s Glance is compatible with other OpenStack services, ensuring that it can perform data verification upon the image download.
Share Multiple Image Types Across Tenants
Take advantage of the sharing capabilities delivered by OpenStack’s Glance as well as the extensive compatibility it offers for image types.
Sharing With Specific Users
This type of sharing consists of privately uploaded images intended for the producer.Sharing With All Users
This type of sharing is known as community sharing, meaning that any consumer can find it through a search.
Virtual Machine Compatible
Glance isn’t restricted based on server type as it can boot up virtual machine servers.
Server Agnostic
Through OpenStack’s extensive services, such as Cinder and Ironic, Glance is capable of booting up virtual machine servers.RESTful API
Glance’s RESTful API enables the querying of virtual machine image metadata and retrieving the actual image.
Block Storage Integration
Enjoy seamless integration with OpenStack’s Cinder for all of your image storage needs.
Leverages One Unified Platform
Benefit from OpenStack’s advanced technologies through Glance’s simplified integration with their Cinder block storage service, all on your original infrastructure.Expert Storage
With Cinder from OpenStack, Glance can take advantage of available storage space for any of its images, taking advantage of its easy-to-use virtualization of block storage management.
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