Client for OpenStack services

Go to file

ting.wang eb6da5f0ba gitignore .idea Directory .idea is produces by pycharm. We'd better ignore it. Change-Id: Ia3cbca09398caeb88dd66f89adcd0fcfff8dac4c		2016-02-20 16:25:56 +08:00
doc	Subnet Pool: Add "subnet pool show" command	2016-02-19 11:05:28 +08:00
examples	Switch to ksa Session	2015-12-02 01:55:14 +00:00
functional	Merge "Refactor security group functional tests"	2016-02-15 20:46:51 +00:00
openstackclient	Merge "Subnet Pool: Add "subnet pool show" command"	2016-02-19 18:17:00 +00:00
releasenotes	Subnet Pool: Add "subnet pool show" command	2016-02-19 11:05:28 +08:00
.coveragerc	Change ignore-errors to ignore_errors	2015-09-21 14:54:21 +00:00
.gitignore	gitignore .idea	2016-02-20 16:25:56 +08:00
.gitreview	Add openstack-common and test infrastructure.	2012-04-28 22:27:34 +00:00
.mailmap	Clean up test environment and remove unused imports.	2013-01-22 11:44:18 -06:00
.testr.conf	Use format options for functional tests	2015-05-17 12:33:39 +00:00
babel.cfg	Add translation markers for user v2 actions	2014-10-09 14:47:19 -04:00
HACKING.rst	Remove non-existing hacking deviations from doc	2015-08-09 13:22:48 -07:00
LICENSE	Remove LICENSE APPENDIX	2015-11-18 13:25:56 +09:00
post_test_hook.sh	unwedge the gate	2015-10-08 03:09:43 -04:00
README.rst	Use Block Storage instead of Volume	2015-11-27 17:56:10 +08:00
requirements.txt	Updated from global requirements	2016-02-10 21:59:14 +00:00
setup.cfg	Subnet Pool: Add "subnet pool show" command	2016-02-19 11:05:28 +08:00
setup.py	Updated from global requirements	2015-09-18 16:42:31 +00:00
test-requirements.txt	Remove unused test-requirments	2016-02-18 22:51:04 +08:00
tox.ini	Deprecated tox -downloadcache option removed	2015-12-11 23:30:31 +01:00

README.rst

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
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-openstackclient

There are a few variants on getting help. A list of global options and supported commands is shown with --help:

openstack --help

There is also a help command that can be used to get help text for a specific command:

openstack help
openstack help server create

Configuration

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>