diff --git a/glance/async/flows/plugins/plugin_opts.py b/glance/async/flows/plugins/plugin_opts.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..440e1eb7e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/async/flows/plugins/plugin_opts.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+
+import glance.async.flows.plugins.inject_image_metadata
+
+
+# Note(jokke): This list contains tuples of config options for import plugins.
+# When new plugin is introduced its config options need to be added to this
+# list so that they can be processed, when config generator is used to generate
+# the glance-image-import.conf.sample it will also pick up the details. The
+# module needs to be imported as the Glance release packaged example(s) above
+# and the first part of the tuple refers to the group the options gets
+# registered under at the config file.
+PLUGIN_OPTS = [
+    ('inject_metadata_properties',
+     glance.async.flows.plugins.inject_image_metadata.inject_metadata_opts),
+]
+
+
+def get_plugin_opts():
+    return PLUGIN_OPTS
diff --git a/glance/opts.py b/glance/opts.py
index 196e81be0e..7785fa124f 100644
--- a/glance/opts.py
+++ b/glance/opts.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import glance.api.middleware.context
 import glance.api.versions
 import glance.async.flows.api_image_import
 import glance.async.flows.convert
-import glance.async.flows.plugins.inject_image_metadata
+from glance.async.flows.plugins import plugin_opts
 import glance.async.taskflow_executor
 import glance.common.config
 import glance.common.location_strategy
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ _manage_opts = [
 ]
 _image_import_opts = [
     ('image_import_opts', glance.async.flows.api_image_import.api_import_opts),
-    ('inject_metadata_properties',
-     glance.async.flows.plugins.inject_image_metadata.inject_metadata_opts)
 ]
 
 
@@ -162,4 +160,6 @@ def list_manage_opts():
 
 def list_image_import_opts():
     """Return a list of oslo_config options available for Image Import"""
-    return [(g, copy.deepcopy(o)) for g, o in _image_import_opts]
+
+    opts = _image_import_opts.extend(plugin_opts.get_plugin_opts())
+    return [(g, copy.deepcopy(o)) for g, o in opts]