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Adding images to Openstack Glance

August 12, 2017

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(Last Updated On: January 10, 2018)

In this tutorial we’re going to look at how to start adding images to Openstack Glance image service. I assume you already have a running Openstack setup, and glance service runs on the controller node. If you’re doing initial setup, look at

Openstack Liberty Lab Part Four: Configuring Glance Image Service

What is Openstack image service?

Openstack glance enables users to discover, register, and retrieve virtual machine images. The default location these images are stored is /var/lib/glance/images/ with its backend being a file.

Openstack image service also offers a REST API that enables you to query virtual machine image metadata and retrieve an actual image. You can store virtual machine images made available through the Image service in a variety of locations, from simple file systems to object-storage systems like OpenStack Object Storage.

Obtaining images?

The simplest way to obtain a virtual machine image that works with OpenStack is to download one that someone else has already created. Most of the images contain the cloud-init package to support the SSH key pair and user data injection. I’ll show you how to add images for various operating systems by downloading what other people already made. Of course you can create your own images, but it is faster to obtain ready made images.

Below are the default login usernames for instances created from the images added shortly.

Debian: debian
Fedora: fedora
Ubuntu: ubuntu
RHEL: cloud-user
CentOS: centos
coreos: core
Arch Linux: arch
Gentoo: gentoo
OpenSUSE: root
Cirros:
    username: cirros
    Password: cubswin:)

Adding Cirros Test Image

Download image

wget http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.5/cirros-0.3.5-x86_64-disk.img

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file cirros-0.3.5-x86_64-disk.img \
    Cirros-0.3.5-x86_64

Adding Fedora 26 Image

Download image

wget https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/26/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-26-1.5.x86_64.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file  Fedora-Cloud-Base-26-1.5.x86_64.qcow2 \
    Fedora-26-x86_64

Adding Fedora 26 Atomic Image

Download image

wget https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/26/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Atomic-26-1.5.x86_64.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file  Fedora-Atomic-26-1.5.x86_64.qcow2 \
    Fedora-Atomic-26-x86_64

Add Debian 9 image to glance

Download image

wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-9/debian-9-openstack-amd64.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file debian-9-openstack-amd64.qcow2 \
    Debian-9-amd64

Adding Debian 8 image to glance

Download image

wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-8/debian-8-openstack-amd64.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file debian-8-openstack-amd64.qcow2 \
    Debian-8-amd64

Adding CentOS 7 image to glance

Download image

wget http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2 \
    CentOS-7-x86_64

Adding CentOS 6 image to glance

Download image

wget http://cloud.centos.org/centos/6/images/CentOS-6-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file CentOS-6-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2 \
    CentOS-6-x86_64

Adding Ubuntu 16.04 image glance

Download image

wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img \
    Ubuntu-16.04-x86_64

Adding Ubuntu 14.04 image glance

Download image

wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img \
    Ubuntu-14.04-x86_64

Adding Ubuntu 17.04 image glance

Download image

wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/zesty/current/zesty-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file zesty-server-cloudimg-amd64.img \
    Ubuntu-17.04-x86_64

Adding OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 image to glance

Download image

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Cloud:/Images:/Leap_42.3/images/openSUSE-Leap-42.3-OpenStack.x86_64.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file openSUSE-Leap-42.3-OpenStack.x86_64.qcow2 \
    OpenSUSE-Leap-42.3-x86_64

Adding Windows Server 2012 image

Download image

https://cloudbase.it/windows-cloud-images/#download

Extract the image

gunzip -cd windows_server_2012_r2_standard_eval_kvm_20170321.qcow2.gz

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file windows_server_2012_r2_standard_eval_kvm_20170321.qcow2 \
    Windows-Server-2012-R2-Std

Adding CoreOS image

Download image

wget https://stable.release.core-os.net/amd64-usr/current/coreos_production_openstack_image.img.bz2
bunzip2 coreos_production_openstack_image.img.bz2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file coreos_production_openstack_image.img \
    CoreOS-x86_64

Adding Arch Linux image

Download image

wget https://linuximages.de/openstack/arch/arch-openstack-LATEST-image-bootstrap.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file arch-openstack-LATEST-image-bootstrap.qcow2 \
    Arch-Linux-x86_64

Adding Gentoo image

Download image

wget https://linuximages.de/openstack/gentoo/gentoo-openstack-LATEST-image-bootstrap.qcow2

Adding image to glance

openstack image create \
    --container-format bare \
    --disk-format qcow2 \
    --file gentoo-openstack-LATEST-image-bootstrap.qcow2 \
    Gentoo-Linux-x86_64

Upload All in single file:

Confirm that all images were added successfully

$ openstack image list
+--------------------------------------+----------------------------+--------+
| ID                                   | Name                       | Status |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------------+--------+
| f047065f-c5ed-4596-8c35-0f60b5d21539 | Arch-Linux-x86_64          | active |
| b6f3e6e9-4fa7-4e45-b7ae-b48c9a36ecc8 | CentOS-6-x86_64            | active |
| 4019ee18-0447-420b-b3b9-2b99055c939a | CentOS-7-x86_64            | active |
| 10a08516-c8f8-433c-8fff-e56b0627512b | Cirros-0.3.5-x86_64        | active |
| 1d3265cf-0cb7-4834-a6e4-2dd9db167b24 | Debian-8-amd64             | active |
| 66b230c4-5339-4c8a-8a70-78f879ccc64b | Debian-9-amd64             | active |
| 3efaee22-35d2-4813-ad6e-62d6ad55df36 | Fedora-26-x86_64           | active |
| 8bc3a4e3-2ba6-4af3-a0bc-2dfc2e0dea53 | Gentoo-Linux-x86_64        | active |
| d0c9939c-beae-4ee4-9bbe-58784fe32a85 | OpenSUSE-Leap-42.3-x86_64  | active |
| 48ca423a-b8dc-44dc-b80a-e5c1b3c8b9f2 | Ubuntu-14.04-x86_64        | active |
| 24607d7b-f181-4845-9907-cac37ff5b1fa | Ubuntu-16.04-x86_64        | active |
| 82661205-9fed-4c80-ab81-706afdfecbf2 | Ubuntu-17.04-x86_64        | active |
| b1ba5cea-39f8-4f7c-bdee-796587c5e266 | Windows-Server-2012-R2-Std | active |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------------+--------+

Setting image options options

openstack image set  --help

Protect all images from being accidentally deleted

Now let’s set all images to be publicly visible and protect them from accidental deletion.

IMAGE_IDS=`openstack image list | egrep '[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}' -o`
for i in ${IMAGE_IDS[@]}; do
    openstack image set --public $i
    openstack image set --protected $i
done

Confirm from Horizon Dashboard by going to Project > Compute > Images. You should notice Protected flag is set to yes for all images and Visibility set to Public as well.

Reference for adding images to openstack glance:

https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/create-images-manually.html

https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/ubuntu-image.htmlhttps://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/obtain-images.html