Command Line Tools and Floating IPs

In addition to the OSDC console, there are a number of command line tools to manage virtual machines and cloud settings. The OpenStack tools have a variety of names, the primary one being ‘nova’. On Sullivan and the protected data clouds we do recommend using the OpenStack tools because they have a number of nice features. This page will describe some of the more common tasks, more details can be found on the OpenStack site.

List Images

OpenStack: nova image-list

List Instance Types (Flavors)

OpenStack: nova flavor-list

List Keypairs

OpenStack: nova keypair-list

Start Instances

OpenStack: nova boot <SERVER NAME> --image <IMAGE ID> --flavor <FLAVOR ID> --key_name <KEY NAME>

The –user_data ~/.smbpasswd.sh provides the credentials to your VM to mount the GlusterFS share. On Sullivan you can also manually mount /glusterfs after the fact by running ‘/cloudconf/mount-glusterfs $USERNAME’. The password is located in your home directory at “smbpassword.txt”

List Instances

OpenStack: nova list

Terminate Instances

OpenStack: nova delete <INSTANCE ID>

Create OSDC Images

OpenStack

On the OpenStack clouds to create an image/snapshot:

nova image-create <INSTANCE ID> <NEW UNIQUE NAME>

It’s a good idea to make the new image name informative.

By default the new images are private and can only be seen by you. To make images public:

glance update <IMAGE ID> is_public=true image_type=snapshot

Floating IPs

Floating IPs are currently only available on the Sullivan cloud and in limited quantities. Please contact support if you wish to obtain a floating IP.

Assign Floating IP to a VM

• Run nova list to get the VM’s ID
• Find free Floating IP with ‘nova floating-ip-list’
• Add IP to VM with nova add-floating-ip <server> <address>

Remove Floating IP from a VM

• Run nova list to get the VM’s ID
• Remove IP from VM with nova remove-floating-ip <server> <address>

Open Ports

The default security policy is already set to allow 22, 80 and 443 in this fashion:

nova secgroup-add-rule default tcp 22 22   0.0.0.0/0
nova secgroup-add-rule default tcp 80 80   0.0.0.0/0
nova secgroup-add-rule default tcp 443 443   0.0.0.0/0
nova secgroup-add-rule default icmp -1 -1   0.0.0.0/0