Manage images
When working with images in the SDK, you will call both
glance and nova methods.
List images
To list the available images, call the
glanceclient.v2.images.Controller.list
method:
import glanceclient.v2.client as glclient
glance = glclient.Client(...)
images = glance.images.list()
The images method returns a Python
generator, as shown in the following interaction with the Python
interpreter:
>>> images = glance.images.list()
>>> images
<generator object list at 0x105e9c2d0>
>>> list(images)
[{u'checksum': u'f8a2eeee2dc65b3d9b6e63678955bd83',
u'container_format': u'ami',
u'created_at': u'2013-10-20T14:28:10Z',
u'disk_format': u'ami',
u'file': u'/v2/images/dbc9b2db-51d7-403d-b680-3f576380b00c/file',
u'id': u'dbc9b2db-51d7-403d-b680-3f576380b00c',
u'kernel_id': u'c002c82e-2cfa-4952-8461-2095b69c18a6',
u'min_disk': 0,
u'min_ram': 0,
u'name': u'cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-uec',
u'protected': False,
u'ramdisk_id': u'4c1c9b4f-3fe9-425a-a1ec-1d8fd90b4db3',
u'schema': u'/v2/schemas/image',
u'size': 25165824,
u'status': u'active',
u'tags': [],
u'updated_at': u'2013-10-20T14:28:11Z',
u'visibility': u'public'},
{u'checksum': u'69c33642f44ca552ba4bb8b66ad97e85',
u'container_format': u'ari',
u'created_at': u'2013-10-20T14:28:09Z',
u'disk_format': u'ari',
u'file': u'/v2/images/4c1c9b4f-3fe9-425a-a1ec-1d8fd90b4db3/file',
u'id': u'4c1c9b4f-3fe9-425a-a1ec-1d8fd90b4db3',
u'min_disk': 0,
u'min_ram': 0,
u'name': u'cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-uec-ramdisk',
u'protected': False,
u'schema': u'/v2/schemas/image',
u'size': 3714968,
u'status': u'active',
u'tags': [],
u'updated_at': u'2013-10-20T14:28:10Z',
u'visibility': u'public'},
{u'checksum': u'c352f4e7121c6eae958bc1570324f17e',
u'container_format': u'aki',
u'created_at': u'2013-10-20T14:28:08Z',
u'disk_format': u'aki',
u'file': u'/v2/images/c002c82e-2cfa-4952-8461-2095b69c18a6/file',
u'id': u'c002c82e-2cfa-4952-8461-2095b69c18a6',
u'min_disk': 0,
u'min_ram': 0,
u'name': u'cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-uec-kernel',
u'protected': False,
u'schema': u'/v2/schemas/image',
u'size': 4955792,
u'status': u'active',
u'tags': [],
u'updated_at': u'2013-10-20T14:28:09Z',
u'visibility': u'public'}]
Get image by ID
To retrieve an image object from its ID, call the
glanceclient.v2.images.Controller.get
method:
import glanceclient.v2.client as glclient
image_id = 'c002c82e-2cfa-4952-8461-2095b69c18a6'
glance = glclient.Client(...)
image = glance.images.get(image_id)
Get image by name
The Image Service Python bindings do not support the
retrieval of an image object by name. However, the Compute
Python bindings enable you to get an image object by name. To
get an image object by name, call the
novaclient.v1_1.images.ImageManager.find
method:
import novaclient.v1_1.client as nvclient
name = "cirros"
nova = nvclient.Client(...)
image = nova.images.find(name=name)
Upload an image
To upload an image, call the
glanceclient.v2.images.ImageManager.create
method:
import glanceclient.v2.client as glclient
imagefile = "/tmp/myimage.img"
glance = glclient.Client(...)
with open(imagefile) as fimage:
glance.images.create(name="myimage", is_public=False, disk_format="qcow2",
container_format="bare", data=fimage)