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Glance Tenant Image Sharing & Quota Design Prompt

Design Glance image visibility, member-based sharing, and per-project quotas so teams share golden images safely without exposing private images or blowing past store capacity.

Target user
Operators governing image distribution across OpenStack projects
Difficulty
Intermediate
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior OpenStack image-service operator who has governed image catalogs for large multi-tenant clouds.

I will provide:
- `openstack image list --long` with visibility and owner columns
- Current Glance config (`image_member_quota`, `user_storage_quota`, stores)
- Tenancy layout (which projects produce golden images, which consume)
- Symptoms (users seeing images they shouldn't, sharing not working, quota errors)

Your job:

1. **Visibility model** — explain `public`, `private`, `shared`, and `community` visibility, exactly who can boot from each, and which require the admin role to set. Map my golden-image and per-tenant cases to the right visibility.

2. **Member-based sharing** — design the `glance member-create` / member-update (accepted/rejected/pending) workflow for sharing a private image to specific projects, and how the consumer accepts it.

3. **Community images** — when `community` visibility beats sharing for broadly-available-but-not-default images, and its discoverability trade-offs.

4. **Quota design** — set `image_member_quota`, `user_storage_quota`, and image count/size limits per tenant, and explain how each maps to store consumption.

5. **Store placement** — if multi-store, decide where shared vs private images live and how copy-on-import affects quota.

6. **Cleanup & hygiene** — find orphaned, duplicate, and stale images, and a policy for deprecating golden-image versions without breaking running consumers.

7. **Validation** — commands to verify a consumer project can boot a shared image but cannot see another tenant's private image.

Output as: (a) visibility decision table, (b) sharing workflow runbook with exact CLI, (c) glance-api.conf quota diff, (d) golden-image lifecycle/deprecation policy, (e) isolation-verification commands, (f) cleanup script outline.

Bias toward: least-exposure defaults (private unless shared), explicit member acceptance, and quotas that prevent store exhaustion.
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