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CERN docs on OpenStack, might be helpful https://clouddocs.web.cern.ch/clouddocs/

Combined OpenStack CLI tool

Installation

[name@server ~]$ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip

[name@server ~]$ pip install python-openstackclient

see [http://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/common/cli_install_openstack_command_line_clients.html]

To install on a machine (ACENET specifically without admin privileges) use:

[name@server ~]$  pip install --user python-openstackclient

provided that pip is install which installs to ~/.local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ so by adding export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/:${PYTHONPATH} to your .bashrc file if you are using Python major version X=2, and minor version Y=7 python can then load those modules. Further adding export PATH=${HOME}/.local/bin:${PATH} to your .bashrc will allow you to run the openstack commands directly.

Executing commands

The combined CLI tool can be used interactively by running

[name@server ~]$ openstack

and then issuing commands at the prompt. Alternatively the commands can be issued as one-offs by a preceding the command with openstack, for example

[name@server ~]$ openstack server list

When running in interactive mode a list of available commands can be seen by typing help at the openstack prompt. The available commands are categorized by groups, many of the most commonly used are listed below (e.g. server command group. More information on a particular command group can be obtained by typing help <command group> where <command group> is the particular command group e.g. server. To get help on a particular command (e.g. options and arguments) one can type help <command group> <command>. Note that many of the available commands are available only to OpenStack administrators and will show some meaningless error message if a non-administrator tries using it. For this reason a list of available commands grouped by command group is provided below to allow one to easily identify commands available to the average user.

To execute a command type

[name@server ~]$ openstack <command group> <command>

server command group

add security group	migrate	resume	unlock
add volume	pause	set	unpause
create	reboot	shelve	unrescue
delete	rebuild	show	unset
dump create	remove security group	ssh	unshelve
image create	remove volume	start
list	rescue	stop
lock	resize	suspend

volume command group

create	set
delete	show
list	unset

console command group

log show

url show

image command group

create
delete
list

ip command group

fixed add	floating list
fixed remove	floating pool list
floating add	floating remove
floating create	floating show
floating delete

keypair command group

create	list
delete	show

network command group

create	set
delete	show
list

snapshot command group

create	set
delete	show
list	unset

security group command group

create	rule list
delete	rule show
list	set
rule create	show
rule delete