Command-line interface (CLI)

• Openstack CLI
  • Getting started
  • Get on-line help on a particular command
  • Do more
• First steps, “Hello cloud!”
  • Create an SSH key pair
  • List the available images
  • List the available flavors
  • Start an instance
  • (optional) Add a public IP
  • Say hello
  • Delete the instance
• Managing key pairs
  • Generate a key pair
  • Provide the public key to Openstack
  • List the key pairs
  • Check the correspondence between a local key and the published one
  • Use a key pair
  • Do more
• Image management
  • List the available images in the catalogue
  • Create a new image from a running instance
  • Add an image to the catalogue
  • Download an image from the catalogue
  • Edit an image metadata
  • Delete an image
• Managing the instances
  • List the running instances
  • Instantiate the VMs
  • Delete an instance
  • Pause an instance
  • Restart a paused instance
  • Suspend an instance
  • Restart a suspended instance
• Managing server groups
  • Manage a server group
  • Set a specific group for an instance
• Available flavors
  • Terminology
  • Dimensioning rules for flavors creation
  • List the flavors
• Use instances metadata
• Managing the ephemeral storage
  • Choose the amount of ephemeral space
  • Verify the assigned size
  • Storage usage
• Volume management
  • List the instantiated volumes
  • List the volume types
  • Create a new volume
  • Attach a free volume to an instance
  • Detach a volume
  • Delete a volume
  • Volume Snapshot
  • List existing snapshots
  • Delete a snapshot
  • Attach a previously generated snapshot without destroying the current volume
• Manage filesystems
  • List shares
  • List share types
  • Create a share
  • Give access to a share
  • Export share path
  • Mount the share in a VM
  • Delete a share
  • Useful commands
• Contextualization
  • Valid input sources
  • cloud-config files syntax
  • Execute a script
  • Examples
  • References
• Quota monitoring