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Removes the copy of the otuput of 'nova help' from the README.rst file. It's out of date and given its not autogenerated is rather prone to getting out of date again soon anyway. Just leave the command that people need to run in order to print the help message. Change-Id: I3cd069838302913bc69cc0ded5d632c7f8c3f408
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Python bindings to the OpenStack Nova API
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This is a client for the OpenStack Nova API. There's a Python API (the
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``novaclient`` module), and a command-line script (``nova``). Each
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implements 100% of the OpenStack Nova API.
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See the `OpenStack CLI guide`_ for information on how to use the ``nova``
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command-line tool. You may also want to look at the
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`OpenStack API documentation`_.
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.. _OpenStack CLI Guide: http://docs.openstack.org/cli/quick-start/content/
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.. _OpenStack API documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/api/
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The project is hosted on `Launchpad`_, where bugs can be filed. The code is
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hosted on `Github`_. Patches must be submitted using `Gerrit`_, *not* Github
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pull requests.
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.. _Github: https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient
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.. _Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/python-novaclient
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.. _Gerrit: http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow
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python-novaclient is licensed under the Apache License like the rest of
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OpenStack.
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.. contents:: Contents:
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:local:
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Command-line API
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----------------
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Installing this package gets you a shell command, ``nova``, that you
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can use to interact with any OpenStack cloud.
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You'll need to provide your OpenStack username and password. You can do this
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with the ``--os-username``, ``--os-password`` and ``--os-tenant-name``
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params, but it's easier to just set them as environment variables::
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export OS_USERNAME=openstack
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export OS_PASSWORD=yadayada
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export OS_TENANT_NAME=myproject
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You will also need to define the authentication url with ``--os-auth-url``
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and the version of the API with ``--os-compute-api-version``. Or set them as
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an environment variables as well::
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export OS_AUTH_URL=http://example.com:8774/v1.1/
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export OS_COMPUTE_API_VERSION=1.1
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If you are using Keystone, you need to set the OS_AUTH_URL to the keystone
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endpoint::
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export OS_AUTH_URL=http://example.com:5000/v2.0/
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Since Keystone can return multiple regions in the Service Catalog, you
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can specify the one you want with ``--os-region-name`` (or
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``export OS_REGION_NAME``). It defaults to the first in the list returned.
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You'll find complete documentation on the shell by running
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``nova help``
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Python API
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----------
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There's also a complete Python API, but it has not yet been documented.
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Quick-start using keystone::
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# use v2.0 auth with http://example.com:5000/v2.0/")
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>>> from novaclient.v1_1 import client
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>>> nt = client.Client(USER, PASS, TENANT, AUTH_URL, service_type="compute")
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>>> nt.flavors.list()
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[...]
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>>> nt.servers.list()
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[...]
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>>> nt.keypairs.list()
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[...]
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