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xml:id="the-glance-rest-api">
<info>
<title>The Glance REST API</title>
</info>
<para>Glance has a RESTful API that exposes both metadata about
registered virtual machine images and the image data itself.</para>
<para>A host that runs the <literal>bin/glance-api</literal>
service is said to be a <emphasis>Glance API Server</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Assume there is a Glance API server running at the URL
<literal>http://glance.example.com</literal>.</para>
<para>Let's walk through how a user might request information from
this server.</para>
<section xml:id="requesting-a-list-of-public-vm-images">
<info>
<title>Requesting a List of Public VM Images</title>
</info>
<para>We want to see a list of available virtual machine images
that the Glance server knows about.</para>
<para>We issue a <literal>GET</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/</literal> to
retrieve this list of available <emphasis>public</emphasis>
images. The data is returned as a JSON-encoded mapping in the
following format:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
{'images': [
{'status: 'active',
'name': 'Ubuntu 10.04 Plain',
'disk_format': 'vhd',
'container_format': 'ovf',
'size': '5368709120'}
...]}
</literallayout>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
All images returned from the above `GET` request are <emphasis role="bold">public</emphasis> images
</literallayout>
</section>
<section xml:id="requesting-detailed-metadata-on-public-vm-images">
<info>
<title>Requesting Detailed Metadata on Public VM Images</title>
</info>
<para>We want to see more detailed information on available
virtual machine images that the Glance server knows about.</para>
<para>We issue a <literal>GET</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/detail</literal> to
retrieve this list of available <emphasis>public</emphasis>
images. The data is returned as a JSON-encoded mapping in the
following format:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
{'images': [
{'name': 'Ubuntu 10.04 Plain 5GB',
'disk_format': 'vhd',
'container_format': 'ovf',
'size': '5368709120',
'checksum': 'c2e5db72bd7fd153f53ede5da5a06de3',
'location': 'swift://account:key/container/image.tar.gz.0',
'created_at': '2010-02-03 09:34:01',
'updated_at': '2010-02-03 09:34:01',
'deleted_at': '',
'status': 'active',
'is_public': true,
'owner': null,
'properties': {'distro': 'Ubuntu 10.04 LTS'}},
...]}
</literallayout>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
All images returned from the above `GET` request are <emphasis>public</emphasis> images
All timestamps returned are in UTC
The `updated_at` timestamp is the timestamp when an image's metadata
was last updated, not its image data, as all image data is immutable
once stored in Glance
The `properties` field is a mapping of free-form key/value pairs that
have been saved with the image metadata
The `checksum` field is an MD5 checksum of the image file data
The `is_public` field is a boolean indicating whether the image is
publicly available
The `owner` field is a string which may either be null or which will
indicate the owner of the image
</literallayout>
</section>
<section
xml:id="filtering-images-returned-via-get-images-and-get-imagesdetail">
<info>
<title>Filtering Images Returned via <literal>GET
/images</literal> and <literal>GET
/images/detail</literal></title>
</info>
<para>Both the <literal>GET /images</literal> and <literal>GET
/images/detail</literal> requests take query parameters that
serve to filter the returned list of images. The following list
details these query parameters.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>name=NAME</literal>
</para>
<para>Filters images having a <literal>name</literal>
attribute matching <literal>NAME</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>container_format=FORMAT</literal>
</para>
<para>Filters images having a
<literal>container_format</literal> attribute matching
<literal>FORMAT</literal>
</para>
<para>For more information, see :doc:`About Disk and
Container Formats &lt;formats&gt;` </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>disk_format=FORMAT</literal>
</para>
<para>Filters images having a <literal>disk_format</literal>
attribute matching <literal>FORMAT</literal>
</para>
<para>For more information, see :doc:`About Disk and
Container Formats &lt;formats&gt;` </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>status=STATUS</literal>
</para>
<para>Filters images having a <literal>status</literal>
attribute matching <literal>STATUS</literal>
</para>
<para>For more information, see :doc:`About Image Statuses
&lt;statuses&gt;` </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>size_min=BYTES</literal>
</para>
<para>Filters images having a <literal>size</literal>
attribute greater than or equal to <literal>BYTES</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>size_max=BYTES</literal>
</para>
<para>Filters images having a <literal>size</literal>
attribute less than or equal to <literal>BYTES</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>These two resources also accept sort parameters:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>sort_key=KEY</literal>
</para>
<para>Results will be ordered by the specified image
attribute <literal>KEY</literal>. Accepted values include
<literal>id</literal>, <literal>name</literal>,
<literal>status</literal>, <literal>disk_format</literal>,
<literal>container_format</literal>,
<literal>size</literal>, <literal>created_at</literal>
(default) and <literal>updated_at</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>sort_dir=DIR</literal>
</para>
<para>Results will be sorted in the direction
<literal>DIR</literal>. Accepted values are
<literal>asc</literal> for ascending or
<literal>desc</literal> (default) for descending.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="requesting-detailed-metadata-on-a-specific-image">
<info>
<title>Requesting Detailed Metadata on a Specific Image</title>
</info>
<para>We want to see detailed information for a specific virtual
machine image that the Glance server knows about.</para>
<para>We have queried the Glance server for a list of public
images and the data returned includes the `uri` field for each
available image. This `uri` field value contains the exact
location needed to get the metadata for a specific image.</para>
<para>Continuing the example from above, in order to get metadata
about the first public image returned, we can issue a
<literal>HEAD</literal> request to the Glance server for the
image's URI.</para>
<para>We issue a <literal>HEAD</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/1</literal> to
retrieve complete metadata for that image. The metadata is
returned as a set of HTTP headers that begin with the prefix
<literal>x-image-meta-</literal>. The following shows an
example of the HTTP headers returned from the above
<literal>HEAD</literal> request:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
x-image-meta-name Ubuntu 10.04 Plain 5GB
x-image-meta-disk-format vhd
x-image-meta-container-format ovf
x-image-meta-size 5368709120
x-image-meta-checksum c2e5db72bd7fd153f53ede5da5a06de3
x-image-meta-location swift://account:key/container/image.tar.gz.0
x-image-meta-created_at 2010-02-03 09:34:01
x-image-meta-updated_at 2010-02-03 09:34:01
x-image-meta-deleted_at
x-image-meta-status available
x-image-meta-is-public true
x-image-meta-owner null
x-image-meta-property-distro Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
</literallayout>
<para>All timestamps returned are in UTC The
`x-image-meta-updated_at` timestamp is the timestamp when an
image's metadata was last updated, not its image data, as all
image data is immutable once stored in Glance There may be
multiple headers that begin with the prefix
`x-image-meta-property-`. These headers are free-form key/value
pairs that have been saved with the image metadata. The key is
the string after `x-image-meta-property-` and the value is the
value of the header The response's `ETag` header will always be
equal to the `x-image-meta-checksum` value The response's
`x-image-meta-is-public` value is a boolean indicating whether
the image is publicly available The response's
`x-image-meta-owner` value is a string which may either be null
or which will indicate the owner of the image</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="retrieving-a-virtual-machine-image">
<info>
<title>Retrieving a Virtual Machine Image</title>
</info>
<para>We want to retrieve that actual raw data for a specific
virtual machine image that the Glance server knows about.</para>
<para>We have queried the Glance server for a list of public
images and the data returned includes the `uri` field for each
available image. This `uri` field value contains the exact
location needed to get the metadata for a specific image.</para>
<para>Continuing the example from above, in order to get metadata
about the first public image returned, we can issue a
<literal>HEAD</literal> request to the Glance server for the
image's URI.</para>
<para>We issue a <literal>GET</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/1</literal> to
retrieve metadata for that image as well as the image itself
encoded into the response body.</para>
<para>The metadata is returned as a set of HTTP headers that
begin with the prefix <literal>x-image-meta-</literal>. The
following shows an example of the HTTP headers returned from the
above <literal>GET</literal> request:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
x-image-meta-name Ubuntu 10.04 Plain 5GB
x-image-meta-disk-format vhd
x-image-meta-container-format ovf
x-image-meta-size 5368709120
x-image-meta-checksum c2e5db72bd7fd153f53ede5da5a06de3
x-image-meta-location swift://account:key/container/image.tar.gz.0
x-image-meta-created_at 2010-02-03 09:34:01
x-image-meta-updated_at 2010-02-03 09:34:01
x-image-meta-deleted_at
x-image-meta-status available
x-image-meta-is-public true
x-image-meta-owner null
x-image-meta-property-distro Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
</literallayout>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
All timestamps returned are in UTC
The `x-image-meta-updated_at` timestamp is the timestamp when an
image's metadata was last updated, not its image data, as all
image data is immutable once stored in Glance
There may be multiple headers that begin with the prefix
`x-image-meta-property-`. These headers are free-form key/value pairs
that have been saved with the image metadata. The key is the string
after `x-image-meta-property-` and the value is the value of the header
The response's `Content-Length` header shall be equal to the value of
the `x-image-meta-size` header
The response's `ETag` header will always be equal to the
`x-image-meta-checksum` value
The response's `x-image-meta-is-public` value is a boolean indicating
whether the image is publicly available
The response's `x-image-meta-owner` value is a string which may either
be null or which will indicate the owner of the image
The image data itself will be the body of the HTTP response returned
from the request, which will have content-type of
`application/octet-stream`.
</literallayout>
</section>
<section xml:id="adding-a-new-virtual-machine-image">
<info>
<title>Adding a New Virtual Machine Image</title>
</info>
<para>We have created a new virtual machine image in some way
(created a "golden image" or snapshotted/backed up an existing
image) and we wish to do two things:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Store the disk image data in Glance</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Store metadata about this image in Glance</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>We can do the above two activities in a single call to the
Glance API. Assuming, like in the examples above, that a Glance
API server is running at <literal>glance.example.com</literal>,
we issue a <literal>POST</literal> request to add an image to
Glance:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
POST http://glance.example.com/images/
</literallayout>
<para>The metadata about the image is sent to Glance in HTTP
headers. The body of the HTTP request to the Glance API will be
the MIME-encoded disk image data.</para>
<section xml:id="adding-image-metadata-in-http-headers">
<info>
<title>Adding Image Metadata in HTTP Headers</title>
</info>
<para>Glance will view as image metadata any HTTP header that
it receives in a</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
``POST`` request where the header key is prefixed with the strings
``x-image-meta-`` and ``x-image-meta-property-``.
</literallayout>
<para>The list of metadata headers that Glance accepts are
listed below.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-name</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional . Its value should be the
name of the image.</para>
<para>Note that the name of an image <emphasis>is not
unique to a Glance node</emphasis>. It would be an
unrealistic expectation of users to know all the unique
names of all other user's images.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-id</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional.</para>
<para>When present, Glance will use the supplied identifier
for the image. If the identifier already exists in that
Glance node, then a <emphasis role="strong">409
Conflict</emphasis> will be returned by Glance.</para>
<para>When this header is <emphasis>not</emphasis> present,
Glance will generate an identifier for the image and
return this identifier in the response (see below)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-store</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional. Valid values are one of
<literal>file</literal>, <literal>s3</literal>, or
<literal>swift</literal>
</para>
<para>When present, Glance will attempt to store the disk
image data in the backing store indicated by the value of
the header. If the Glance node does not support the
backing store, Glance will return a <emphasis
role="strong">400 Bad Request</emphasis>.</para>
<para>When not present, Glance will store the disk image
data in the backing store that is marked default. See the
configuration option <literal>default_store</literal> for
more information.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-disk-format</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional. Valid values are one of
<literal>aki</literal>, <literal>ari</literal>,
<literal>ami</literal>, <literal>raw</literal>,
<literal>iso</literal>, <literal>vhd</literal>,
<literal>vdi</literal>, <literal>qcow2</literal>, or
<literal>vmdk</literal>.</para>
<para>For more information, see :doc:`About Disk and
Container Formats &lt;formats&gt;` </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-container-format</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional. Valid values are one of
<literal>aki</literal>, <literal>ari</literal>,
<literal>ami</literal>, <literal>bare</literal>, or
<literal>ovf</literal>.</para>
<para>For more information, see :doc:`About Disk and
Container Formats &lt;formats&gt;` </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-size</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional.</para>
<para>When present, Glance assumes that the expected size
of the request body will be the value of this header. If
the length in bytes of the request body <emphasis>does not
match</emphasis> the value of this header, Glance will
return a <emphasis role="strong">400 Bad
Request</emphasis>.</para>
<para>When not present, Glance will calculate the image's
size based on the size of the request body.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-checksum</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional. When present it shall be the
expected <emphasis role="strong">MD5</emphasis> checksum
of the image file data.</para>
<para>When present, Glance will verify the checksum
generated from the backend store when storing your image
against this value and return a <emphasis role="strong"
>400 Bad Request</emphasis> if the values do not match.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-is-public</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional.</para>
<para>When Glance finds the string "true"
(case-insensitive), the image is marked as a public image,
meaning that any user may view its metadata and may read
the disk image from Glance.</para>
<para>When not present, the image is assumed to be
<emphasis>not public</emphasis> and specific to a user.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-owner</literal>
</para>
<para>This header is optional and only meaningful for
admins.</para>
<para>Glance normally sets the owner of an image to be the
tenant or user (depending on the "owner_is_tenant"
configuration option) of the authenticated user issuing
the request. However, if the authenticated user has the
Admin role, this default may be overridden by setting this
header to null or to a string identifying the owner of the
image.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>x-image-meta-property-*</literal>
</para>
<para>When Glance receives any HTTP header whose key begins
with the string prefix
<literal>x-image-meta-property-</literal>, Glance adds
the key and value to a set of custom, free-form image
properties stored with the image. The key is the
lower-cased string following the prefix
<literal>x-image-meta-property-</literal> with dashes
and punctuation replaced with underscores.</para>
<para>For example, if the following HTTP header were sent:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
x-image-meta-property-distro Ubuntu 10.10
</literallayout>
<para>Then a key/value pair of "distro"/"Ubuntu 10.10" will
be stored with the image in Glance.</para>
<para>There is no limit on the number of free-form
key/value attributes that can be attached to the image.
However, keep in mind that the 8K limit on the size of all
HTTP headers sent in a request will effectively limit the
number of image properties.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="updating-an-image">
<info>
<title>Updating an Image</title>
</info>
<para>Glance will view as image metadata any HTTP header that
it receives in a</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
``PUT`` request where the header key is prefixed with the strings
``x-image-meta-`` and ``x-image-meta-property-``.
</literallayout>
<para>If an image was previously reserved, and thus is in the
<literal>queued</literal> state, then image data can be
added by including it as the request body. If the image
already as data associated with it (e.g. not in the
<literal>queued</literal> state), then including a request
body will result in a <emphasis role="strong">409
Conflict</emphasis> exception.</para>
<para>On success, the <literal>PUT</literal> request will
return the image metadata encoded as HTTP headers.</para>
<para>See more about image statuses here: :doc:`Image Statuses
&lt;statuses&gt;` </para>
</section>
</section>
<section xml:id="requesting-image-memberships">
<info>
<title>Requesting Image Memberships</title>
</info>
<para>We want to see a list of the other system tenants (or
users, if "owner_is_tenant" is False) that may access a given
virtual machine image that the Glance server knows about. We
take the `uri` field of the image data, append
<literal>/members</literal> to it, and issue a
<literal>GET</literal> request on the resulting URL.</para>
<para>Continuing from the example above, in order to get the
memberships for the first public image returned, we can issue a
<literal>GET</literal> request to the Glance server for
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/1/members</literal>.
What we will get back is JSON data such as the following:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
{'members': [
{'member_id': 'tenant1',
'can_share': false}
...]}
</literallayout>
<para>The `member_id` field identifies a tenant with which the
image is shared. If that tenant is authorized to further share
the image, the `can_share` field is `true`.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="requesting-shared-images">
<info>
<title>Requesting Shared Images</title>
</info>
<para>We want to see a list of images which are shared with a
given tenant. We issue a <literal>GET</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/shared-images/tenant1</literal>.
We will get back JSON data such as the following:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
{'shared_images': [
{'image_id': 1,
'can_share': false}
...]}
</literallayout>
<para>The `image_id` field identifies an image shared with the
tenant named by <emphasis>member_id</emphasis>. If the tenant is
authorized to further share the image, the `can_share` field is
`true`.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="adding-a-member-to-an-image">
<info>
<title>Adding a Member to an Image</title>
</info>
<para>We want to authorize a tenant to access a private image. We
issue a <literal>PUT</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/1/members/tenant1</literal>.
With no body, this will add the membership to the image, leaving
existing memberships unmodified and defaulting new memberships
to have `can_share` set to `false`. We may also optionally
attach a body of the following form:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
{'member':
{'can_share': true}
}
</literallayout>
<para>If such a body is provided, both existing and new
memberships will have `can_share` set to the provided value
(either `true` or `false`). This query will return a 204 ("No
Content") status code.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="removing-a-member-from-an-image">
<info>
<title>Removing a Member from an Image</title>
</info>
<para>We want to revoke a tenant's right to access a private
image. We issue a <literal>DELETE</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/1/members/tenant1</literal>.
This query will return a 204 ("No Content") status code.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="replacing-a-membership-list-for-an-image">
<info>
<title>Replacing a Membership List for an Image</title>
</info>
<para>The full membership list for a given image may be replaced.
We issue a <literal>PUT</literal> request to
<literal>http://glance.example.com/images/1/members</literal>
with a body of the following form:</para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
{'memberships': [
{'member_id': 'tenant1',
'can_share': false}
...]}
</literallayout>
<para>All existing memberships which are not named in the
replacement body are removed, and those which are named have
their `can_share` settings changed as specified. (The
`can_share` setting may be omitted, which will cause that
setting to remain unchanged in the existing memberships.) All
new memberships will be created, with `can_share` defaulting to
`false` if it is not specified.</para>
</section>
</chapter>