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# Glance image sharing across different regions

## Problem

If you want to share an image with other regions.

## Environment

* Platform9 Managed OpenStack - v4.0 and Higher

Two regions with a different set of glance nodes.

## Procedure

1. Save the image on the host from First region.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Save source image" %}

```javascript
$ openstack image save <image-id> --file <output-location>
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

```
  2.  Copy the image(s) using `SCP` to the /tmp directory of the target region's glance hosts. 

  3. There are three ways to add an image file to the Glance image repository in Platform9 Managed OpenStack:
```

* *Copy an image file into the repository directory*\_**.**\_ The supporting pf9-imagelibrary service will detect the new file, calculate Glance metadata for it, and add it to Glance.
* *Upload an image using the Glance command line client* (or through some other REST client).
* *Create an image as a snapshot* of a virtual machine disk or Cinder volume.

4. Here, we will see "Copy an image file into the repository directory" method. Please copy/move the images from "/tmp"to the watch folder by default it is "/var/opt/pf9/imagelibrary/data" which can changed by administrator as needed, and they will be automatically imported into your Glance Image Catalog.

**Note** related to Image Permissions: Your image files must have the right permissions - world-readable or readable to `pf9` user and `pf9group` group. You can use the following command on the image file:

`chown pf9:pf9group <image-file-name>`

With above method you will start observing the image in another region.


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