Configuring global image deployment

Image deployment customization properties that apply equally to all images in the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack self-service portal image library can be configured through the deployment.properties configuration file in the home directory.

To simplify the image deployment process for self-service portal users, configure all of the images before you make the self-service portal available to users. Image property customization often requires knowing the low-level details of the environment or having advanced knowledge of the data center.

You can configure image deployment customization properties through the self-service portal for individual image settings or through the deployment.properties file in the home directory for global image settings.

The contents of the deployment.properties configuration file depend on what is expected by the cloud manager software, OpenStack and what hardware is available.

Note: Global configurations are refreshed only when manually reset or when the deployment target changes.

OpenStack

When you use OpenStack as the cloud manager, the following properties are supported for AIX®, Linux, and Windows images in the deployment.properties file:

openstack.openstack.flavors
openstack.openstack.keypairs
openstack.openstack.security.groups
openstack.openstack.server.personality.source.[1-5]
openstack.openstack.server.personality.target.[1-5]
openstack.openstack.server.customizations
openstack.networkdevice.Network adapters.networks
openstack.config.drive

More deployment properties are available for images that have a configuration strategy. For more information about configuration strategies, see Configuring images with OpenStack.