OpenStack Glance PTL Nikhil Komawar provides updates on Glance in Kilo. Key changes in Kilo include version bumping to 2.3, improving stability of the glance_store library, incorporating the Metadata Definitions Catalog closer with Glance, and focusing on catalog indexing, artifacts, TaskFlow integration, image conversion, and scrubber enhancements. Komawar invites participation in Glance discussions on IRC, email, the mailing list, and weekly meetings.

1. OpenStack Glance PTL
Nikhil Komawar
OpenStack Glance in Kilo
Updates

2. OpenStack Glance?
What is

3. Flashback to Juno
● Asynchronous processing.
● Backend storage drivers are in a separate project
“glance_store” under the same program.
● Metadata Definitions Catalog.
● Restricted policy for downloading Images.
● Enhanced scrubber service.

4. Theme change
“To provide a service where users can upload and
discover data assets that are meant to be used
with other services, like images for Nova and
templates for Heat.”

5. Specifications
● A new process to allow operators and developers to
collectively participate in the design discussions related to
Glance.
● It is a formal statement describing the proposed changes
to the code base.
● Reviewed separately from the code.
Proposed:
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/glance-
specs,n,z
Approved: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/glance-specs/

6. Features & pseudo features
Features
● Introduced via bugs and specifications.
● Discussions are welcome.
Pseudo features
● Stability
● Releases of python-glanceclient and glance_store libraries.
● Performance or consistency evaluation.
● Liaisons
● https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons

7. Kilo priorities
● Version bump to 2.3
● Improve the stability of glance_store library.
● Incorporate Metadata Definitions Catalog closer with
Glance.
● Catalog Indexing Service proposal.
● Artifacts proposal.
● TaskFlow integration and Image conversion.
● Scrubber enhancements.
● Functional API for Images.
● Community Image Sharing.

8. Other Kilo priorities
● Better error codes.
● Separation of logging for glance-manage.
● Multiple containers for single tenant swift backend.
● Enhancements to ease Nova to use v2 API.
● Enhancements for adoption of glance_store outside of
Glance.

9. Wanna Glance?
As always, I’m happy to chat:
● IRC: nikhil_k on freenode #openstack-glance (Eastern Time)
● Email: nikhil.komawar@rackspace.com
● ML: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org
● Weekly meeting: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Glance