Python API

In order to use the python api directly, you must first obtain an auth token and identify which endpoint you wish to speak to. Once you have done so, you can use the API like so:

>>> from glanceclient import Client
>>> glance = Client('1', endpoint=OS_IMAGE_ENDPOINT, token=OS_AUTH_TOKEN)
>>> image = glance.images.create(name="My Test Image")
>>> print image.status
'queued'
>>> image.update(data=open('/tmp/myimage.iso', 'rb'))
>>> print image.status
'active'
>>> with open('/tmp/copyimage.iso', 'wb') as f:
        for chunk in image.data:
            f.write(chunk)
>>> image.delete()

Command-line Tool

In order to use the CLI, you must provide your OpenStack username, password, tenant, and auth endpoint. Use the corresponding configuration options (--os-username, --os-password, --os-tenant-id, and --os-auth-url) or set them in environment variables:

export OS_USERNAME=user
export OS_PASSWORD=pass
export OS_TENANT_ID=b363706f891f48019483f8bd6503c54b
export OS_AUTH_URL=http://auth.example.com:5000/v2.0

The command line tool will attempt to reauthenticate using your provided credentials for every request. You can override this behavior by manually supplying an auth token using --os-image-url and --os-auth-token. You can alternatively set these environment variables:

export OS_IMAGE_URL=http://glance.example.org:9292/
export OS_AUTH_TOKEN=3bcc3d3a03f44e3d8377f9247b0ad155

Once you’ve configured your authentication parameters, you can run glance help to see a complete listing of available commands.

See also glance CLI man page.

Release Notes

0.12.0

• Add command line support for V2 image create, update, and upload
• Enable querying for images by tag
• 1230032, 1231524: Fix several issues with handling redirects
• 1206095: Use openstack-images-v2.1-json-patch for update method

0.11.0

• 1212463: Allow single-wildcard SSL common name matching
• 1208618: Support absolute redirects for endpoint urls
• 1190606: Properly handle integer-like image ids
• Support removing properties from images in the v2 library

0.10.0

• 1192229: Security Update! Fix SSL certificate CNAME checking to handle ip addresses correctly
• Add an optional progress bar for image downloads
• Additional v2 api functionality, including image creation and uploads
• Allow v1 admin clients to list all users’ images, and to list the images of specific tenants.
• Add a –checksum option to the v2 CLI for selecting images by checksum
• Added support for image creation and uploads to the v2 library
• Added support for updating and deleting v2 image tags to the v2 library and CLI
• Added support for managing image memberships to the v2 library and CLI
• Added a cli man page.
• 1184566: Fix support for unix pipes when uploading images in the v1 CLI
• 1157864: Fix an issue where glanceclient would fail with eventlet.

0.9.0

• Implement ‘visibility’, ‘owner’ and ‘member_status’ filters for v2 CLI and library
• Relax prettytable dependency to v0.7.X
• 1118799: Implement filter on ‘is_public’ attribute in v1 API
• 1157905, 1130390: Improve handling of SIGINT (CTRL-C)

0.8.0

• Implement image-delete for Image API v2
• Update warlock dependency to >= 0.7.0 and < 1
• 1061150: Support non-ASCII characters
• 1102944: The port option is configurable when using HTTPS
• 1093380: Support image names in place of IDs for CLI commands
• 1094917: Better representation of errors through CLI

0.7.0

• Add --store option to image-create command
• Deprecate --ca-file in favor of --os-cacert
• 1082957: Add --sort-key and --sort-dir CLI options to image-list command
• 1081542: Change default image-list CLI sort to order by image name ascending
• 1079692: Verify SSL certification hostnames when using HTTPS
• 1080739: Use --os-region-name in service catalog lookup

0.6.0

• Multiple image ID can be passed to glance image-delete
• glance --version and glanceclient.__version__ expose the current library version
• Use --human-readable with image-list and image-show to display image sizes in human-friendly formats
• Use OpenSSL for HTTPS connections
• 1056220: Always use ‘Transfer-Encoding: chunked’ when transferring image data
• 1052846: Padded endpoints enabled (e.g. glance.example.com/padding/v1)
• 1050345: glance image-create and glance image-update now work on Windows

0.5.1

• 1045824: Always send Content-Length when updating image with image data
• 1046607: Handle 300 Multiple Choices nicely in the CLI
• 1035931: Properly display URI in legacy ‘show’ command
• 1048698: Catch proper httplib InvalidURL exception

0.5.0

• Add ‘image-download’ command to CLI
• Relax dependency on warlock to anything less than v2

0.4.2

• 1037233: Fix v1 image list where limit kwarg is less than page_size

0.4.1

• Default to system CA cert if one is not provided while using SSL
• 1036315: Allow ‘deleted’ to be provided in v1 API image update
• 1036299: Fix case where boolean values were treated as strings in v1 API
• 1036297: Fix case where int values were treated as strings in v1 API

0.4.0

• Send client SSL certificate to server for self-identification
• Properly validate server SSL certificates
• Images API v2 image data download