Glance Store Drivers

Glance store supports several different drivers. These drivers live within the library’s code base and they are maintained by either members of the Glance community or OpenStack in general. Please, find below the table of supported drivers and maintainers:

Driver

Status

Maintainer

Email

IRC Nick

File System

Supported

Glance Team

openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org

openstack-glance

HTTP

Supported

Glance Team

openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org

openstack-glance

RBD

Supported

Glance Team

openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org

openstack-glance

Cinder

Supported

Rajat Dhasmana

rajatdhasmana@gmail.com

whoami-rajat

Swift

Supported

Matthew Oliver

matt@oliver.net.au

mattoliverau

VMware

Deprecated

N/A

N/A

S3

Supported

Naohiro Sameshima

naohiro.sameshima@global.ntt

nao-shark

Note

VMWare driver was deprecated in 2024.1 release, because of lack of CI and active maintainers