Creating an application development environment for OpenStack

For creating a development environment on a Unix platform, you will need the following:

• A Linux system (preferably Ubuntu)
• Devstack or OpenStack installed (we have already seen how to install devstack in Chapter 3, Exploring OpenStack Private Cloud)
• Python 2.7 installed
• Python package managed (pip) installed

We will be using the commonly used openstacksdk Python library for developing OpenStack applications. Let's install the SDK using pip. 

Log in to your Linux system as a root user and enter the following command:

pip install openstacksdk

This will install the OpenStack SDK on your system. You are now ready to write your first OpenStack application.