GLANCE-API(1)

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💖 GLANCE-API 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the glance-api man page — that's the Glance API Server, living in manual section 1, filed under the cloud computing manual group. it's giving server daemon realness. 🫶

🌸 SERVER FOR THE GLANCE IMAGE SERVICE API 🌸

before we get into the whole thing, here's the lil cast list of who made this and when, because credits matter, periodt:

  • Author: OpenStack Glance Project Team
  • Contact: <glance@lists.launchpad.net>
  • Date: 2025-04-02
  • Copyright: OpenStack Foundation
  • Version: 30.0.0
  • Manual section: 1
  • Manual group: cloud computing

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

glance-api [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

glance-api is a server daemon that serves the Glance API. that's the whole vibe. no cap, that's literally it — it sits there, it serves the API, it slays. 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

🌈 General options

this is the main character section. every single flag, right here, nothing skipped, iykyk:

  • -h, --help — shows you the help message, then dips out and exits. 🎀
  • --version — prints the version number and exits.
  • -v, --verbose — prints more verbose output. more words, more lore.
  • --noverbose — turns verbose output off. ✋
  • -d, --debug — prints debugging output (sets the logging level to DEBUG instead of the default WARNING level). the way that it tells you *everything*… LOL. 🔥
  • --nodebug — disables debugging output.
  • --use-syslog — uses syslog for logging. 🍓
  • --nouse-syslog — disables the use of syslog for logging.
  • --syslog-log-facility SYSLOG_LOG_FACILITY — the syslog facility that receives the log lines.
  • --config-dir DIR — path to a config directory to pull *.conf files from. this file set is sorted, so you get a predictable parse order if individual options get over-ridden. the set is parsed after the file(s) specified via previous --config-file arguments — hence over-ridden options in the directory take precedence. which means: configuration from files in a specified --config-dir will always take precedence over configuration from files specified by --config-file, regardless of argument order. not me re-reading that twice, but it's important, bestie. ⭐
  • --config-file PATH — path to a config file to use. you can specify multiple config files by using this flag multiple times, like, for example, --config-file <file1> --config-file <file2>. values in the latter files take precedence. 👑
  • --log-config-append PATH --log-config PATH — the name of the logging configuration file. it does not disable existing loggers — it just appends the specified logging configuration to any other existing logging options. please see the Python logging module documentation for the details on logging configuration files. heads up: the log-config name for this option is deprecated. 💀
  • --log-format FORMAT — a logging.Formatter log message format string, which may use any of the available logging.LogRecord attributes. Default: None
  • --log-date-format DATE_FORMAT — format string for %(asctime)s in log records. Default: None
  • --log-file PATH, --logfile PATH — (optional) name of the log file to output to. if it's not set, logging will go to stdout. 🌸
  • --log-dir LOG_DIR, --logdir LOG_DIR — (optional) the directory to keep log files in (this will be prepended to --log-file).

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/glance/glance-api.conf — the default configuration file for Glance API. your home base, honestly. 💜

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

🙈 BUGS 🙈

  • Glance bugs are tracked in Launchpad, so you can view current bugs at OpenStack Glance <http://bugs.launchpad.net/glance>. go be nosy, bestie, it's encouraged. 🐛

🧚 Author

OpenStack

2010-present, OpenStack Foundation.

so that's the whole page!! every flag, every path, every default, all of it, untouched. no cap. 🫶✨

and a lil sign-off: this one's version 33.0.0, dated Sep 30, 2026, and it's the GLANCE-API(1) page you just read. bye bestie, go serve that API 💅🌈⭐

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