Openstack python API: how to download image from glance using the python api

api, openstack, openstack-glance, python

Solution

Without installing glance cli you can download image via HTTP call as described here: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/glanceapi.html#retrieve-raw-image-data

For the python client you can use

img = client.images.get(IMAGE_ID)

and then call

client.images.data(img) # or img.data()

to retrieve generator by which you can access raw data of image.

Full example (saving image from glance to disk):

img = client.images.find(name='cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-uec')

file_name = "%s.img" % img.name
image_file = open(file_name, 'w+')

for chunk in img.data():
    image_file.write(chunk)

Problem

I am trying to write a python program to download images from glance service. However, I could not find a way to download images from the cloud using the API. In the documentation which can be found here: http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/sdk_manage_images.html they explain how to upload images, but not to download them. The following code shows how to get image object, but I don't now what to do with this object: ``` import novaclient.v1_1.client as nvclient name = "cirros" nova = nvclient.Client(...) image = nova.images.find(name=name) ``` is there any way to download the image file and save it on disk using this object "image"?

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