openstack add ova images launch instance

Disk format
The disk format of a virtual machine image is the format of the underlying disk image. Virtual appliance vendors have different formats for laying out the information contained in a virtual machine disk image.

vmdk Common disk format supported by many common virtual machine monitors.
Container formats
ova An OVF package in a tarfile.
ovf The OVF container format.

Use the OpenStack client image create command to import your disk image to glance:

Uploading the ISO image
openstack image create CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804 –public –container-format bare –disk-format iso –file CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso

Uploading the VMDK image
openstack image create CentOS-7 –container-format ova –disk-format vmdk –file CentOS7-openstack-disk1.vmdk –public –protected –min-disk 4

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