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Give the 2.x series its own release notes page, put the 3.x notes into the 'current' series page. This removes the OpenStack development cycle name from the release notes. We follow the intermediary release model, however the association with the common cycle release is something that we do not need to reflect in the doc structure. We want users to use the current version even with older clouds, not to think they need to use a 'Mitaka' OSC with a Mitaka cloud. Change-Id: Idbb6844824d50e5cd0fa64871b5aa625d4d237af
OpenStackClient
OpenStackClient (aka OSC) is a command-line client for OpenStack that brings the command set for Compute, Identity, Image, Object Store and Block Storage APIs together in a single shell with a uniform command structure.
The primary goal is to provide a unified shell command structure and a common language to describe operations in OpenStack.
- PyPi - package installation
- Online Documentation
- Launchpad project - release management
- Blueprints - feature specifications
- Bugs - issue tracking
- Source
- Developer - getting started as a developer
- Contributing - contributing code
- Testing - testing code
- IRC: #openstack-sdks on Freenode (irc.freenode.net)
- License: Apache 2.0
Getting Started
OpenStack Client can be installed from PyPI using pip:
pip install python-openstackclientThere are a few variants on getting help. A list of global options
and supported commands is shown with --help:
openstack --helpThere is also a help command that can be used to get
help text for a specific command:
openstack help
openstack help server createConfiguration
The CLI is configured via environment variables and command-line options as listed in http://docs.openstack.org/developer/python-openstackclient/authentication.html.
Authentication using username/password is most commonly used:
export OS_AUTH_URL=<url-to-openstack-identity>
export OS_PROJECT_NAME=<project-name>
export OS_USERNAME=<username>
export OS_PASSWORD=<password> # (optional)The corresponding command-line options look very similar:
--os-auth-url <url>
--os-project-name <project-name>
--os-username <username>
[--os-password <password>]If a password is not provided above (in plaintext), you will be interactively prompted to provide one securely.
Authentication may also be performed using an already-acquired token and a URL pointing directly to the service API that presumably was acquired from the Service Catalog:
export OS_TOKEN=<token>
export OS_URL=<url-to-openstack-service>The corresponding command-line options look very similar:
--os-token <token>
--os-url <url-to-openstack-service>