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Image Registries
================

Image metadata made available through Glance can be stored in image
`registries`. Image registries are any web service that adheres to the
Glance REST-like API for image metadata.

Glance comes with a server program ``glance-registry`` that acts
as a reference implementation of a Glance Registry.

Please see the document :doc:`on Controlling Servers <controllingservers>`
for more information on starting up the Glance registry server that ships
with Glance.

Glance Registry API
-------------------

Any web service that publishes an API that conforms to the following
REST-like API specification can be used by Glance as a registry.

API in Summary
**************

The following is a brief description of the Glance API::

  GET     /images         Return brief information about public images
  GET     /images/detail  Return detailed information about public images
  GET     /images/<ID>    Return metadata about an image in HTTP headers
  POST    /images         Register metadata about a new image
  PUT     /images/<ID>    Update metadata about an existing image
  DELETE  /images/<ID>    Remove an image's metadata from the registry

``POST /images``
----------------

The body of the request will be a JSON-encoded set of data about
the image to add to the registry. It will be in the following format::

  {'image':
    {'id': <ID>|None,
     'name': <NAME>,
     'status': <STATUS>,
     'disk_format': <DISK_FORMAT>,
     'container_format': <CONTAINER_FORMAT>,
     'properties': [ ... ]
    }
  }

The request shall validate the following conditions and return a
``400 Bad request`` when any of the conditions are not met:

* ``status`` must be non-empty, and must be one of **active**, **saving**,
  **queued**, or **killed**

* ``disk_format`` must be non-empty, and must be one of **ari**, **aki**,
  **ami**, **raw**, **vhd**, **vdi**, **qcow2**, or **vmdk**

* ``container_format`` must be non-empty, and must be on of **ari**,
  **aki**, **ami**, **bare**, or **ovf**

* If ``disk_format`` *or* ``container_format`` is **ari**, **aki**,
  **ami**, then *both* ``disk_format`` and ``container_format`` must be
  the same.

Examples
********

.. todo::  Complete examples for Glance registry API
