Boot from Image (into new volume)

[styk-tv]

Open stack has ability to boot from image in glance and at the same time creating new volume in cinder. Am I missing something in the doc or is that not possible yet? This way I can spin up several instances from the same image without having to do new volume each time.

This is different from spinning up just image as the volumes in cinder might be on a fast attached array, iscsi or gluster volume.

[ggiamarchi]

It actually works but it is not documented :cold_sweat:

config.vm.provider :openstack do |os|
    ...
    os.volume_boot = {
        image: "ubuntu",
        size:  15,
        delete_on_destroy: true
    }
end

Let's keep this issue open for the documentation update.

[styk-tv]

Many many thanks for replying so quickly :beer:

[Drakoskai]

I've got a similar but slightly related issue. I'm trying to provision with an image and then attach an existing volume. Is this possible?