Enabling upload volume to glance as image

Background:

The current release doesn’t have the openstack cinder’s functionality of upload-to-image (upload volume to image service as image) extended to Horizon (Openstack Dashboard). It will be a valuable use case for a user to export his volume as an image for provisioning other instances based on the volume and this functionality must be available from the Openstack Dashboard UI.

Proposal:

This proposal is to expose the upload-to-image functionality in the volumes panel of the openstack dashboard (Project->Compute->Volumes and Admin->System Panel->Volumes). This would be a row action as well as a batch action over the list of volumes. Role based access will also be addressed. The backend supporting API would be Cinder-API and the corresponding changes to Openstack Dashboard API codes will be made.