Ubuntu Manpage: glance-scrubber - Glance Scrubber Service

Provided by: glance-api_16.0.1-0ubuntu1.1_all

NAME

       glance-scrubber - Glance Scrubber Service

GLANCE SCRUB SERVICE

Author OpenStack Glance Project Team

Contact
glance@lists.launchpad.net

Date 2018-02-28

Version
16.0.0

Manual section
1

Manual group
cloud computing

SYNOPSIS
glance-scrubber [options]

DESCRIPTION
glance-scrubber is a utility that allows an operator to configure Glance for the
asynchronous deletion of images. Whether this makes sense for your deployment depends
upon the storage backend you are using and the size of typical images handled by your
Glance installation.

An image in glance is really a combination of an image record (stored in the database) and
a file of image data (stored in a storage backend). Under normal operation, the
image-delete call is synchronous, that is, Glance receives the DELETE request, deletes the
image data from the storage backend, then deletes the image record from the database, and
finally returns a 204 as the result of the call. If the backend is fast and deletion time
is not a function of data size, these operations occur very quickly. For backends where
deletion time is a function of data size, however, the image-delete operation can take a
significant amount of time to complete, to the point where a client may timeout waiting
for the response. This in turn leads to user dissatisfaction.

To avoid this problem, Glance has a delayed_delete configuration option (False by default)
that may be set in the glance-api.conf file. With this option enabled, when Glance
receives a DELETE request, it does only the database part of the request, marking the
image's status as pending_delete, and returns immediately. (The pending_delete status is
not visible to users; an image-show request for such an image will return 404.) However,
it is important to note that when delayed_delete is enabled, Glance does not delete image
data from the storage backend. That's where the glance-scrubber comes in.

The glance-scrubber cleans up images that have been deleted. If you run Glance with
delayed_delete enabled, you must run the glance-scrubber occasionally or your storage
backend will eventually fill up with "deleted" image data.

Configuration of glance-scrubber is done in the glance-scrubber.conf file. Options are
explained in detail in comments in the sample configuration file, so we only point out a
few of them here.

scrub_time
minimum time in seconds that an image will stay in pending_delete status (default
is 0)

scrub_pool_size
configures a thread pool so that scrubbing can be performed in parallel (default is
1, that is, serial scrubbing)

daemon a boolean indicating whether the scrubber should run as a daemon (default is False)

wakeup_time
time in seconds between runs when the scrubber is run in daemon mode (ignored if
the scrubber is not being run in daemon mode)

metadata_encryption_key
If your glance-api.conf sets a value for this option (the default is to leave it
unset), you must include the same setting in your glance-scrubber.conf or the
scrubber won't be able to determine the locations of your image data.

[database]
As of the Queens release of Glance (16.0.0), the glance-scrubber does not use the
deprecated Glance registry, but instead contacts the Glance database directly.
Thus your glance-scrubber.conf file must contain a [database] section specifying
the relevant information.

[glance_store]
This section of the file contains the configuration information for the storage
backends used by your Glance installation.

The usual situation is that whatever your glance-api.conf has for the [database] and
[glance_store] configuration groups should go into your glance-scrubber.conf, too. Of
course, if you have heavily customized your setup, you know better than we do what you are
doing. The key thing is that the scrubber needs to be able to access the Glance database
to determine what images need to be scrubbed (and to mark them as deleted once their
associated data has been removed from the storage backend), and it needs the glance_store
information so it can delete the image data.

OPTIONS
General options

-h, --help
Show the help message and exit

--version
Print the version number and exit

-v, --verbose
Print more verbose output

--noverbose
Disable verbose output

-d, --debug
Print debugging output (set logging level to DEBUG instead of default
WARNING level)

--nodebug
Disable debugging output

--use-syslog
Use syslog for logging

--nouse-syslog
Disable the use of syslog for logging

--syslog-log-facility SYSLOG_LOG_FACILITY
syslog facility to receive log lines

--config-dir DIR
Path to a config directory to pull *.conf files from. This file set is
sorted, to provide a predictable parse order if individual options are
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. This means that configuration from files in a specified
config-dir will always take precedence over configuration from files
specified by --config-file, regardless to argument order.

--config-file PATH
Path to a config file to use. Multiple config files can be specified by
using this flag multiple times, for example, --config-file <file1>
--config-file <file2>. Values in latter files take precedence.

--log-config-append PATH --log-config PATH
The name of logging configuration file. It does not disable existing
loggers, but just appends specified logging configuration to any other
existing logging options. Please see the Python logging module documentation
for details on logging configuration files. 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 log file to output to. If not set, logging will go to
stdout.

--log-dir LOG_DIR, --logdir LOG_DIR
(Optional) The directory to keep log files in (will be prepended to
--log-file)

-D, --daemon
Run as a long-running process. When not specified (the default) run the scrub
operation once and then exits. When specified do not exit and run scrub on
wakeup_time interval as specified in the config.

--nodaemon
The inverse of --daemon. Runs the scrub operation once and then exits. This is
the default.

FILES
/etc/glance/glance-scrubber.conf
Default configuration file for the Glance Scrubber

AUTHOR

       OpenStack

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