Python bindings to the OpenStack Volume API

This is a client for the OpenStack Volume API. There's a Python API (the cinderclient module), and a command-line script (cinder). Each implements 100% of the OpenStack Volume API.

[PENDING] Full documentation is available.

You'll also probably want to read OpenStack Compute Developer Guide API --the first bit, at least -- to get an idea of the concepts. Rackspace is doing the cloud hosting thing a bit differently from Amazon, and if you get the concepts this library should make more sense.

The project is hosted on Launchpad, where bugs can be filed. The code is hosted on Github. Patches must be submitted using Gerrit, not Github pull requests.

This code a fork of Jacobian's python-cloudservers If you need API support for the Rackspace API solely or the BSD license, you should use that repository. python-client is licensed under the Apache License like the rest of OpenStack.

Contents:

Command-line API

Installing this package gets you a shell command, cinder, that you can use to interact with any Rackspace compatible API (including OpenStack).

You'll need to provide your OpenStack username and password. You can do this with the --os-username, --os-password and --os-tenant-name params, but it's easier to just set them as environment variables:

export OS_USERNAME=openstack
export OS_PASSWORD=yadayada
export OS_TENANT_NAME=myproject

You will also need to define the authentication url with --os-auth-url and the version of the API with --version. Or set them as an environment variables as well:

export OS_AUTH_URL=http://example.com:8774/v1.1/
export OS_COMPUTE_API_VERSION=1.1

If you are using Keystone, you need to set the CINDER_URL to the keystone endpoint:

export OS_AUTH_URL=http://example.com:5000/v2.0/

Since Keystone can return multiple regions in the Service Catalog, you can specify the one you want with --os-region-name (or export OS_REGION_NAME). It defaults to the first in the list returned.

You'll find complete documentation on the shell by running cinder help:

usage: cinder [--debug] [--os-username <auth-user-name>]
              [--os-password <auth-password>]
              [--os-tenant-name <auth-tenant-name>] [--os-auth-url <auth-url>]
              [--os-region-name <region-name>] [--service-type <service-type>]
              [--service-name <service-name>]
              [--volume-service-name <volume-service-name>]
              [--endpoint-type <endpoint-type>]
              [--os-volume-api-version <compute-api-ver>]
              <subcommand> ...

Command-line interface to the OpenStack Nova API.

Positional arguments:
  <subcommand>
    absolute-limits     Print a list of absolute limits for a user
    create              Add a new volume.
    credentials         Show user credentials returned from auth
    delete              Remove a volume.
    endpoints           Discover endpoints that get returned from the
                        authenticate services
    list                List all the volumes.
    rate-limits         Print a list of rate limits for a user
    show                Show details about a volume.
    snapshot-create     Add a new snapshot.
    snapshot-delete     Remove a snapshot.
    snapshot-list       List all the snapshots.
    snapshot-show       Show details about a snapshot.
    type-create         Create a new volume type.
    type-delete         Delete a specific flavor
    type-list           Print a list of available 'volume types'.
    bash-completion     Prints all of the commands and options to stdout so
                        that the
    help                Display help about this program or one of its
                        subcommands.

Optional arguments:
  --debug               Print debugging output
  --os-username <auth-user-name>
                        Defaults to env[OS_USERNAME].
  --os-password <auth-password>
                        Defaults to env[OS_PASSWORD].
  --os-tenant-name <auth-tenant-name>
                        Defaults to env[OS_TENANT_NAME].
  --os-auth-url <auth-url>
                        Defaults to env[OS_AUTH_URL].
  --os-region-name <region-name>
                        Defaults to env[OS_REGION_NAME].
  --service-type <service-type>
                        Defaults to compute for most actions
  --service-name <service-name>
                        Defaults to env[CINDER_SERVICE_NAME]
  --volume-service-name <volume-service-name>
                        Defaults to env[CINDER_VOLUME_SERVICE_NAME]
  --endpoint-type <endpoint-type>
                        Defaults to env[CINDER_ENDPOINT_TYPE] or publicURL.
  --os-volume-api-version <compute-api-ver>
                        Accepts 1, defaults to env[OS_VOLUME_API_VERSION].

See "cinder help COMMAND" for help on a specific command.

Python API

[PENDING] There's also a complete Python API.

Quick-start using keystone:

# use v2.0 auth with http://example.com:5000/v2.0/")
>>> from cinderclient.v1 import client
>>> nt = client.Client(USER, PASS, TENANT, AUTH_URL, service_type="compute")
>>> nt.flavors.list()
[...]
>>> nt.servers.list()
[...]
>>> nt.keypairs.list()
[...]

What's new?

[PENDING] See the release notes.