Images Sync

This feature deploys OpenStack Images Sync, a tool for importing images from a SimpleStreams source to the OpenStack Glance image service.

Note

This feature is currently only supported in channel 2024.1/edge of the openstack snap.

Enable Images Sync

To enable Images Sync, run the following command:

sunbeam enable images-sync

Disable Images Sync

To disable Images Sync, run the following command:

sunbeam disable images-sync

Caution

Caution: Disabling Images Sync will not remove images that have been previously imported from the Glance image service.

Usage

Users need the role reader to list images.

To list images added by the Images Sync feature, run the following command:

openstack image list | grep auto-sync/

Sample output:

| 200df230-0983-4cd8-9d14-97327664f77b | auto-sync/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-20240513-disk1.img   | active |
| 1935961b-e646-4f0d-a796-8c653308f790 | auto-sync/ubuntu-jammy-22.04-amd64-server-20240514-disk1.img   | active |
| 62be8807-f068-4317-9552-c1357fa8d962 | auto-sync/ubuntu-noble-24.04-amd64-server-20240523.1-disk1.img | active |

The feature downloads images for the three most recent LTS releases.