Selects the kind of image to be used as the boot source for the instance.

OpenStack has multiple ways of storing the data necessary for booting up a new instances. This plugin supports the following:

Image (default)
A bootable filesystem stored on OpenStack's "image store" subsystem. Images get copied to the "compute node" before being booted. The instance is given a writable copy which is disposed of when the instance itself is destroyed.
Volume Snapshot
A bootable filesystem stored on OpenStack's "block storage" subsystem. Booting from a Volume Snapshot requires OpenStack to create a new volume for the instance to boot from, which will automatically be deleted when the instance itself is disposed of.
OpenStack also supports booting from an "Instance Snapshot" or a "Volume" These methods are unsupported by this plugin but data can be converted, e.g. by creating a Volume Snapshot from a Volume.