# Glance Store Drivers

Glance store supports several different drivers. These drivers live within the library’s code base and they are maintained by either members of the Glance community or OpenStack in general. Please, find below the table of supported drivers and maintainers:

Driver | Status | Maintainer | Email | IRC Nick
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
File System | Supported | Glance Team | openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org | openstack-glance
HTTP | Supported | Glance Team | openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org | openstack-glance
RBD | Supported | Glance Team | openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org | openstack-glance
Cinder | Supported | Rajat Dhasmana | rajatdhasmana@gmail.com | whoami-rajat
Swift | Supported | Matthew Oliver | matt@oliver.net.au | mattoliverau
VMware | Deprecated | N/A | N/A |
S3 | Supported | Naohiro Sameshima | naohiro.sameshima@global.ntt | nao-shark

Note

VMWare driver was deprecated in 2024.1 release, because of lack of CI and active maintainers

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