Openstack Usage and Examples
This short guide will outline the usage of some simple commands for openstack/microstack. This includes service usage, dashboard settings, and more.
microstack.openstack catalog list
Output Example:
microstack.openstack user list
Output Example
``microstack.openstack image list```
Example Output:
microstack.openstack network list
Example Output
microstack.openstack hypervisor list
Example Output
Themes can be changed in the login menu from the webpage.
Example:
The User password for the Openstack dashboard can be changed if know, by going to Settings > Change Password.
Example
If the Password is not known, it can be retrieved from the CLI on the host:
sudo snap get microstack config.credentials.keystone-password
Example Output
Managing templates can be done from the web dashboard, this includes managing images, and templates.
To create an image navigate to Admin > Compute > images
Here you can list and search images available to the system
Flavors are a crucial part of your workflow with openstack, allowing you to create hardware templates to allow the quick creation of new guests
To create a new flavor, from cli run the following and replacing the resources respectively with what is needed
microstack.openstack flavor create --ram 1024 --disk 10 --vcpus 1 testflavor
Example Output
List the flavors on the system:
microstack.openstack flavor list
Example output
This can also be managed through the flavors tab of the dashboard at Admin > Compute > Flavors.
Here you can and remove flavors from the system dashboard