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A few releases ago there was a glance replicator script added to
glance, which does what you're looking for. I haven't tried it in ages
though, so test in a lab. ;)

Michael

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Scott Devoid <devoid at anl.gov> wrote:
> Abel, Warren,
>
> Thanks for the quick replies! We are ok with running a script to copy images
> from one glance to another. Eventual consistency is ok and we only need this
> to run until we can shutdown the Essex era glance. But the problem I have is
> that the glance-client doesn't give me full visibility into an image's
> attributes, or the API won't let me set attributes (like snapshot
> instance_uuid).
>
> I am hoping that I'm being dumb or this is a lack of documentation issue.
>
> ~ Scott
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Warren Wang <warren at wangspeed.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think what you ultimately want is a unified glance infrastructure, and
>> we're in the same boat. Currently, I don't know of a good way to do this
>> without taxing the network links, or slowing down the snapshots drastically.
>> For now, we have settled on manually syncing the base instances from one
>> region to the others.
>>
>> Warren
>>
>> Warren
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Scott Devoid <devoid at anl.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>> We have two glance instances in separate deployments (an essex deployment
>>> and a havana deployment) and we would like to synchronize images between the
>>> two.
>>>
>>> Uploading the raw image data works fine with either the command line or
>>> the API, but making the metadata consistent is quite difficult. In the essex
>>> API I can't even find container_format or disk_format reported in the
>>> instance.
>>>
>>> I also can't find a way with the client to affix the snapshot metadata on
>>> the Havana side other than through a direct HTTP PATCH request, and it is
>>> not very clear what headers that request is expecting. [1]
>>>
>>> Another thought I had, since both instances of glance are using the
>>> Filesystem store (w/ separate NFS deployments) was to simply use the
>>> existing NFS in essex and inform the havana glance about the existence of an
>>> image through the --location tag. However this is intentionally blocked. [2]
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for the help,
>>> ~ Scott
>>>
>>> [1] http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-identity-v2.html
>>> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/942118
>>>
>>>
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