We would like to use autoprogram-cliff to generate full docs inline for each plugin. But for the following projects, that breaks the build: - octavia - rsd - trove - watcher - zun For those projects, we're using list-plugins instead, because that builds, and it's better than nothing; but it only provides summaries of the commands. So with this commit, we add a link to the plugin documentation from the actual plugin project where such documentation exists, which currently is just: - octavia - watcher - zun (For rsd, I couldn't find openstack-published docs at all; for trove, published docs exist, but the osc plugin isn't documented.) Change-Id: I7c826ecef4319bead239e11b5f975302b2f24d1b Story: #1735016 Task: #37244
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OpenStackClient
OpenStackClient (aka OSC) is a command-line client for OpenStack that brings the command set for Compute, Identity, Image, Network, 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-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
If you want to make changes to the OpenStackClient for testing and contribution, make any changes and then run:
python setup.py develop
or:
pip install -e .
Configuration
The CLI is configured via environment variables and command-line options as listed in https://docs.openstack.org/python-openstackclient/latest/cli/authentication.html.
Authentication using username/password is most commonly used:
export OS_AUTH_URL=<url-to-openstack-identity>
export OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION=3
export OS_PROJECT_NAME=<project-name>
export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=<project-domain-name>
export OS_USERNAME=<username>
export OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=<user-domain-name>
export OS_PASSWORD=<password> # (optional)
The corresponding command-line options look very similar:
--os-auth-url <url>
--os-identity-api-version 3
--os-project-name <project-name>
--os-project-domain-name <project-domain-name>
--os-username <username>
--os-user-domain-name <user-domain-name>
[--os-password <password>]
If a password is not provided above (in plaintext), you will be interactively prompted to provide one securely.