Category:OpenStack

Overview

• OpenStack ("Havana")
  • Computing
    • Compute ("Nova")
    • Image service ("Glance")
  • Networking
    • Networking ("Neutron")
  • Storing
    • Block Storage ("Cinder")
    • Object Storage ("Swift")
  • Other
    • Dashboard ("Horizon")
    • Identity ("Keystone")
    • Orchestration ("Heat") — aims to orchestrate multiple cloud applications for OpenStack
    • Ceilometer ("Metering") — provides metering and billing facilities for OpenStack

• Havana features
  • vSphere enhancements / Hyper-V dynamic memory
  • LXC + Docker (containers)
  • Cinder: new arrays / vmfs volumes
  • Neutron: FWaaS (firewall) + IPSEC VPN

Install project clients

$ pip install python-PROJECTclient

replace "PROJECT" with one of the following:

• ceilometer - Telemetry API
• cinder - Block Storage API and extensions
• glance - Image Service API
• heat - Orchestration API
• keystone - Identity service API and extensions
• neutron - Networking API
• nova - Compute API and extensions
• swift - Object Storage API
• trove - Database Service API

For an example, the following command will install the nova client using `pip`:

$ pip install python-novaclient

Bash completion

# Save this in /etc/bash_completion.d/nova
_nova()
{   
    local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "`nova bash-completion`" -- $cur) )
}
complete -F _nova nova

See also

• OpenStack Glossary