diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index f6b341a0a2..6039e28da7 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ include tests/stubs.py
 include tests/test_data.py
 include tests/utils.py
 include run_tests.py
+include glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/migrate.cfg
 graft doc
 graft tools
diff --git a/bin/glance-manage b/bin/glance-manage
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..b5cdcc10d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/glance-manage
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""
+Glance Management Utility
+"""
+
+# FIXME(sirp): When we have glance-admin we can consider merging this into it
+# Perhaps for consistency with Nova, we would then rename glance-admin ->
+# glance-manage (or the other way around)
+
+import optparse
+import os
+import sys
+
+ROOT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+
+sys.path.append(ROOT_DIR)
+
+from glance import version as glance_version
+from glance.common import config
+from glance.common import exception
+import glance.registry.db
+import glance.registry.db.migration
+
+
+def create_options(parser):
+    """
+    Sets up the CLI and config-file options that may be
+    parsed and program commands.
+
+    :param parser: The option parser
+    """
+    parser.add_option('-v', '--verbose', default=False, dest="verbose",
+                      action="store_true",
+                      help="Print more verbose output")
+    parser.add_option('-d', '--debug', default=False, dest="debug",
+                      action="store_true",
+                      help="Print debugging output")
+    config.add_log_options('glance-manage', parser)
+    glance.registry.db.add_options(parser)
+
+
+def do_db_version(options, args):
+    """Print database's current migration level"""
+    print glance.registry.db.migration.db_version(options)
+
+
+def do_upgrade(options, args):
+    """Upgrade the database's migration level"""
+    try:
+        db_version = args[1]
+    except IndexError:
+        db_version = None
+
+    glance.registry.db.migration.upgrade(options, version=db_version)
+
+
+def do_downgrade(options, args):
+    """Downgrade the database's migration level"""
+    try:
+        db_version = args[1]
+    except IndexError:
+        raise exception.MissingArgumentError(
+            "downgrade requires a version argument")
+
+    glance.registry.db.migration.downgrade(options, version=db_version)
+
+
+def do_version_control(options, args):
+    """Place a database under migration control"""
+    glance.registry.db.migration.version_control(options)
+
+
+def dispatch_cmd(options, args):
+    """Search for do_* cmd in this module and then run it"""
+    cmd = args[0]
+    try:
+        cmd_func = globals()['do_%s' % cmd]
+    except KeyError:
+        sys.exit("ERROR: unrecognized command '%s'" % cmd)
+
+    try:
+        cmd_func(options, args)
+    except exception.Error, e:
+        sys.exit("ERROR: %s" % e)
+
+
+def main():
+    version = '%%prog %s' % glance_version.version_string()
+    usage = "%prog [options] <cmd>"
+    oparser = optparse.OptionParser(usage, version=version)
+    create_options(oparser)
+    (options, args) = config.parse_options(oparser)
+
+    try:
+        config.setup_logging(options)
+    except RuntimeError, e:
+        sys.exit("ERROR: %s" % e)
+
+    if not args:
+        oparser.print_usage()
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    dispatch_cmd(options, args)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/bin/glance-upload b/bin/glance-upload
index de202580fa..9c0414ec05 100755
--- a/bin/glance-upload
+++ b/bin/glance-upload
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ Kernel-outside:
                      <filename> <name>
 
 """
+
+# FIXME(sirp): This can be merged into glance-admin when that becomes
+# available
 import argparse
 import pprint
 import sys
diff --git a/glance/common/exception.py b/glance/common/exception.py
index b95541df41..2ea1fd834f 100644
--- a/glance/common/exception.py
+++ b/glance/common/exception.py
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ class BadInputError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+class MissingArgumentError(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class DatabaseMigrationError(Error):
+    pass
+
+
 def wrap_exception(f):
     def _wrap(*args, **kw):
         try:
diff --git a/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/README b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6218f8cac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/README
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+This is a database migration repository.
+
+More information at
+http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/
diff --git a/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/__init__.py b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f288d3cf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# template repository default module
diff --git a/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/manage.py b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/manage.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a928c84c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/manage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from migrate.versioning.shell import main
+main(debug='False')
diff --git a/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/migrate.cfg b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/migrate.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6761c45997
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/migrate.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[db_settings]
+# Used to identify which repository this database is versioned under.
+# You can use the name of your project.
+repository_id=Glance Migrations
+
+# The name of the database table used to track the schema version.
+# This name shouldn't already be used by your project.
+# If this is changed once a database is under version control, you'll need to
+# change the table name in each database too.
+version_table=migrate_version
+
+# When committing a change script, Migrate will attempt to generate the
+# sql for all supported databases; normally, if one of them fails - probably
+# because you don't have that database installed - it is ignored and the
+# commit continues, perhaps ending successfully.
+# Databases in this list MUST compile successfully during a commit, or the
+# entire commit will fail. List the databases your application will actually
+# be using to ensure your updates to that database work properly.
+# This must be a list; example: ['postgres','sqlite']
+required_dbs=[]
diff --git a/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/versions/__init__.py b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/versions/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..507b5ff6bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/registry/db/migrate_repo/versions/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# template repository default versions module
diff --git a/glance/registry/db/migration.py b/glance/registry/db/migration.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..63814a7ce5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/registry/db/migration.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+import logging
+import os
+
+from migrate.versioning import api as versioning_api
+from migrate.versioning import exceptions as versioning_exceptions
+
+from glance.common import exception
+
+
+def db_version(options):
+    """Return the database's current migration number
+
+    :param options: options dict
+    :retval version number
+    """
+    repo_path = _find_migrate_repo()
+    sql_connection = options['sql_connection']
+    try:
+        return versioning_api.db_version(sql_connection, repo_path)
+    except versioning_exceptions.DatabaseNotControlledError, e:
+        msg = ("database '%(sql_connection)s' is not under migration control"
+               % locals())
+        raise exception.DatabaseMigrationError(msg)
+
+
+def upgrade(options, version=None):
+    """Upgrade the database's current migration level
+
+    :param options: options dict
+    :param version: version to upgrade (defaults to latest)
+    :retval version number
+    """
+    db_version(options)  # Ensure db is under migration control
+    repo_path = _find_migrate_repo()
+    sql_connection = options['sql_connection']
+    version_str = version or 'latest'
+    logging.info("Upgrading %(sql_connection)s to version %(version_str)s" %
+                  locals())
+    return versioning_api.upgrade(sql_connection, repo_path, version)
+
+
+def downgrade(options, version):
+    """Downgrade the database's current migration level
+
+    :param options: options dict
+    :param version: version to downgrade to
+    :retval version number
+    """
+    db_version(options)  # Ensure db is under migration control
+    repo_path = _find_migrate_repo()
+    sql_connection = options['sql_connection']
+    logging.info("Downgrading %(sql_connection)s to version %(version)s" %
+                  locals())
+    return versioning_api.downgrade(sql_connection, repo_path, version)
+
+
+def version_control(options):
+    """Place a database under migration control
+
+    :param options: options dict
+    """
+    repo_path = _find_migrate_repo()
+    sql_connection = options['sql_connection']
+    try:
+        versioning_api.version_control(sql_connection, repo_path)
+    except versioning_exceptions.DatabaseAlreadyControlledError, e:
+        msg = ("database '%(sql_connection)s' is already under migration "
+               "control" % locals())
+        raise exception.DatabaseMigrationError(msg)
+
+
+def _find_migrate_repo():
+    """Get the path for the migrate repository."""
+    path = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
+                        'migrate_repo')
+    assert os.path.exists(path)
+    return path
diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 9d779c27bf..57f61415f1 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ sphinx
 argparse
 mox==0.5.0
 -f http://pymox.googlecode.com/files/mox-0.5.0.tar.gz
+sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.6