We want to see more detailed information on available virtual machine images that the Glance server knows about.
We issue a GET request to
http://glance.example.com/images/detail to
retrieve this list of available public
images. The data is returned as a JSON-encoded mapping in the
following format:
{'images': [
{'name': 'Ubuntu 10.04 Plain 5GB',
'disk_format': 'vhd',
'container_format': 'ovf',
'size': '5368709120',
'checksum': 'c2e5db72bd7fd153f53ede5da5a06de3',
'location': 'swift://account:key/container/image.tar.gz.0',
'created_at': '2010-02-03 09:34:01',
'updated_at': '2010-02-03 09:34:01',
'deleted_at': '',
'status': 'active',
'is_public': true,
'owner': null,
'properties': {'distro': 'Ubuntu 10.04 LTS'}},
...]}
All images returned from the above `GET` request are public images
All timestamps returned are in UTC
The `updated_at` timestamp is the timestamp when an image's metadata
was last updated, not its image data, as all image data is immutable
once stored in Glance
The `properties` field is a mapping of free-form key/value pairs that
have been saved with the image metadata
The `checksum` field is an MD5 checksum of the image file data
The `is_public` field is a boolean indicating whether the image is
publicly available
The `owner` field is a string which may either be null or which will
indicate the owner of the image
