Backup_glance is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.
Glance is a project that defines services for discovering, registering,
retrieving and storing virtual machine images. The discovery and registration
responsibilities are handled by the glance-registry
component while the
retrieval and storage responsiblities are handled by the glance-api
component.
If you'd like to run trunk, you can clone the git repo:
git clone [email protected]:openstack/glance.git
Install Glance by running::
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
By default, glance-registry
will use a SQLite database. If you'd like to use
MySQL, or make other adjustments, you can modify the glance.cnf file (see
documentation for more details).
Now that Glance is installed, you can start the service. The easiest way to
do that is by using the glance-control
utility which runs both the
glance-api
and glance-registry
services::
glance-control all start
Once both services are running, you can now use the glance-upload
tool to
register new images in Glance.
glance-upload --type=machine --kernel=1 --ramdisk=2 myimage.img "MyImage"
With an image registered, you can now configure your IAAS provider to use Glance as its image service and begin spinning up instances from your newly registered images.