Configuring your Windows environment

Configuring your Windows environment for use with OpenStack requires a little more effort – but the basic premise remains: we're configuring our desktop so that it has access to environment variables, as well as ensuring that our tools, written in Python, are able to execute properly.

Getting ready

The following applies to Windows 10. Ensure that you have followed the steps to install Python.

How to do it…

Carry out the following to load the required environment variables into your Windows session:

1. To be able to source in the required OpenStack environment functions as we do on a Unix/Linux platform, we can achieve a similar outcome using some PowerShell. In the PowerShell Terminal, go and grab the following PowerShell script and download it into your working client directory (for example C:\Users\Username\OpenStack):

   mkdir OpenStack
   cd OpenStack
   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenStackCookbook/vagrant-openstack/master/Source-OpenRC.ps1 -UseBasicParsing...