Uploading Ubuntu to Openstack Glance
Published on 2016-03-03 16:28
Categories: openstack
How to upload Ubuntu 14.04 to an Openstack provider.
Run the following commands to download the latest Ubuntu 14.04 image and upload it to the Openstack provider.
$ curl \
-o trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img \
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
$ glance image-create \
--architecture x86_64 \
--name "ubuntu-14.04.4" \
--min-disk 10 \
--os-version 14.04.4 \
--disk-format qcow2 \
--os-distro ubuntu \
--min-ram 1024 \
--container-format bare \
--file trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img \
--progress
The instructions assume you have a properly configured Openstack environment running on the computer where you run the above commands.