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51 lines
2.4 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<preface xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch_image-service-dev-overview.html">
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<title>Preface</title>
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<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
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<para>OpenStack Image Service offers retrieval, storage, and
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metadata assignment for your images that you want to run in
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your OpenStack cloud. The project is code-named Glance.</para>
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<para>OpenStack Image service enables users to store and retrieve
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images through a simple Web Service (ReST: Representational
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State Transfer) interface.</para>
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<para>For more details on the OpenStack Image service,
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please refer to <link xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/"
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>docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/</link>
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</para>
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<para>We welcome feedback, comments, and bug reports at <link
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xlink:href="http://bugs.launchpad.net/glance"
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>bugs.launchpad.net/glance</link>.</para>
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<section xml:id="glance-api-intended-audience">
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<title>Intended Audience</title>
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<para>This guide is intended to assist software developers who
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want to develop applications using the OpenStack Image
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Service API. It fully documents the ReST application
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programming interface (API) that allows developers to
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interact with the storage components of the OpenStack
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Image system. To use the information provided
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here, you should first have a general understanding of the
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OpenStack Image Service and have access to an installation
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of OpenStack Image Service. You should also be familiar
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with:</para>
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<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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<listitem>
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<para>ReSTful web services</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>HTTP/1.1</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="doc-change-history">
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<title>Document Change History</title>
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<para>This version of the reference replaces and
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obsoletes all previous versions. The most recent
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changes are described in the table below:</para>
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<?rax revhistory?>
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<!-- Table generated in output from revision element in the book element -->
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</section>
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</preface>
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