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This tutorial is part of the Cloud Two Series.

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Category: Intermediate

Difficulty: 3 out of 5

Duration: 27 minutes

1. Overview 2. OpenStack Client 3. Using dedicated clients 4. Setting up your credentials 5. Using the CLI tools 6. Next Steps

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Using dedicated clients

In some cases a service may not be supported by the unified OpenStack client, or it is simply recommended to use the dedicated client which supports extra functionality.

For example, the following services are supported by the OpenStack client, but it is recommended to use the dedicated client instead:

  • nova for the Compute service
  • glance for the Image service
  • swift for the Object Storage service

Services that require a dedicated client and are not supported by the unified OpenStack client are:

  • gnocchi for the Telemetry service
  • murano for the Application Catalog service

Installing a dedicated service client

Assuming you set up the pip tool from the last step, we can install a client using the template python-PROJECTNAMEclient where PROJECTNAME is replaced by the project name.

For example, to install the nova client using pip:

pip install python-novaclient

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4. Setting up your credentials