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== Overview - OpenStack Command Reference == | == Overview - OpenStack Command Reference == |
Revision as of 17:06, 16 May 2013
- Launchpad Entry: [1]
- Created: Diane Fleming
- Contributors:
Contents
Summary
This blueprint describes a plan to create the following documentation for OpenStack users:
- OpenStack User Guide
- OpenStack Command Reference
These documents will provide a clear roadmap for users to interact with OpenStack clouds.
Additionally, these documents will reduce redundancy and increase usability, clarity, and consistency in the existing documentation.
The user guide will show users how to perform tasks in an OpenStack cloud through:
- The Horizon dashboard
- The OpenStack command-line clients
- Directly through the OpenStack APIs
The command reference will enable users to perform tasks through OpenStack command-line client commands.
The tasks that users will be able to perform include:
- Authenticate
- Boot a server
- Create an image
- Create and attach a volume to a server
- Create an isolated network and attach it to a server
- List instances, networks, volumes, images, flavors, and other resources
- Delete resources
- Access a console for an instances
- Configure VNC
Overview - OpenStack Command Reference
Enables users to run OpenStack command-line client commands to interact with OpenStack clouds.
The tasks that users will be able to perform include:
- Authenticate
- Boot a server
- Create an image
- Create and attach a volume to a server
- Create an isolated network and attach it to a server
- List instances, networks, volumes, images, flavors, and other resources
- Delete resources
- Access a console for an instances
- Configure VNC
Deliverables
Audience:
- Users of OpenStack clouds who perform tasks through the Horizon dashboard or the OpenStack command-line clients.
- Developers who develop applications on top of OpenStack by using the OpenStack APIs.
Roadmap:
- Users ramp up on cloud computing by using the Horizon dashboard and the OpenStack command-line clients.
- Then, they use the OpenStack APIs to create scalable applications.
Product info: Havana, 2013.1
Include common glossary? Yes
OpenStack User Guide
Purpose
- Explain OpenStack cloud concepts and describe how to use an OpenStack cloud.
- Include command-line tools and credentials, how to use Horizon dashboard, and how to create images.
- Exclude Cloud application architecture.
Source material
- OpenStack API Quick Start
- Python Developer Documentation
- Language Bindings Documentation
- OpenStack Clients Guide
- project devref/s
OpenStack Command Reference
Purpose
- Describe command-line clients and their subcommands and required and optional parameters.
- Write scripts to auto-generate command and command parameters from the code.
- Use conditional tags to generate two versions of this book: One with admin commands, and one without.
- Exclude concepts (these go in the OpenStack User Guide) or installation instructions (these go in the OpenStack Installation Guide).
Source material
- OpenStack Clients Guide
OpenStack User Guide - Blueprint
WORK-IN-PROGRESS...
OpenStack Cloud Concepts
Describe the main concepts that a user needs to understand to use the cloud. Authentication/Identity service http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-shared-services/ Images, Image service What’s an image? What’s a snapshot? http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-shared-services/ Servers What is a virtual machine? A hypervisor? A server personality? What does it mean to boot a server? http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-compute/
Security groups http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-compute/ Floating IP addresses Console log Object and block storage http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-storage/ Networking http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-networking/ Dashboard, command-line clients, APIs, extensions How to Interact with an OpenStack Cloud Describe ways you can interact with a cloud: OpenStack Command-line Clients OpenStack APIs Talk about ways to use the APIs – cURL? SDKs? Language bindings? Horizon Dashboard http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-dashboard/
Listing Deleting/Terminating Instance Console access About console log Configuring VNC How do I attach a volume?
(Details on doing these actions in user guide)
Attach/Detach volumes How do I save a running instance to an image? Snapshots
Common User Tasks
Boot, list, and delete servers Configure VNC Attach and detach volumes Create, list, and delete images Load-balance xx
Tutorials
Provide tutorials for various use cases. Use different methods in each tutorial so user gets an idea of what’s possible.
Authenticate
Method: cURL commands with embedded API
Run Your Elastic Web Application on Your Cloud
Method: nova client Set up a user, get images for your application servers, spin up server instances, install Wordpress and its dependencies. http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/running-elastic-web-app-cloud.html
Store Large Photos or Videos in Your Cloud
Method: swift client and Cyberduck application Set up secure access to OpenStack Object Storage, configure Cyberduck to connect to OpenStack Object Storage, and copy files to the cloud. http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-object-storage/admin/content/storing-large-photos-or-videos-on-the-cloud.html