OpenStack Image Service offers retrieval, storage, and metadata assignment for your images that you want to run in your OpenStack cloud. The project is code-named Glance. OpenStack Image service enables users to store and retrieve images through a simple Web Service (ReST: Representational State Transfer) interface. For more details on the OpenStack Image service, please refer to docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/ We welcome feedback, comments, and bug reports at bugs.launchpad.net/glance.

This guide is intended to assist software developers who want to develop applications using the OpenStack Image Service API. It fully documents the ReST application programming interface (API) that allows developers to interact with the storage components of the OpenStack Image system. To use the information provided here, you should first have a general understanding of the OpenStack Image Service and have access to an installation of OpenStack Image Service. You should also be familiar with: ReSTful web services HTTP/1.1

This version of the reference replaces and obsoletes all previous versions. The most recent changes are described in the table below: