Openstack

Explain Glance in detail

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Glance is the OpenStack image service
    • It handles requests related to instances disks and images
    • Glance also used for creating snapshots for quick instances backups
    • Users can use Glance to create new images or upload existing ones