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Metadefs API

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Since Feb 19, 2026.

question SCS-VP10 stale
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Description

In Glance there exists the Metadef API, that can be used as a catalog to define definitions in metadata, that are not defined by OpenStack itself. It should be investigate, how standards may benefit from this, whether SCS want to use it at all or if we should not enforce it to be there at all due to:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0088

What metadefs are can be looked up here:
https://docs.openstack.org/glance/latest/user/metadefs-concepts.html

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  • Proposal has been voted upon in the corresponding team
  • Status has been changed into Draft, file renamed: xxxx replaced by document number
  • If applicable: test script has been written (this item may be moved into a separate issue so long as the state is Draft)

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