Common OpenStack storage tasks
This section outlines a number of common tasks using the OpenStack Block and Object Storage service. For more information on storage, refer to Chapter 7, Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage and Chapter 8, Swift – OpenStack Object Storage.
Getting ready
Ensure that you have the OpenStack clients installed, as described in the first recipes of this chapter.
How to do it…
Carry out the following steps to create and modify users and projects in OpenStack:
Create a new Cinder volume
To create a new Cinder block storage volume, carry out the following command. The size is in gigabytes:
openstack volume create --size 5 my5GVolume
Attaching a volume
To attach a volume to a running instance, carry out the following command. The running instance UUID is used and can be found by listing the running instances:
openstack server add volume my5GVolume 58ea640b-16ba-447c-85db-952174d70f7c
Detaching a volume
To detach a volume, first unmount it from the running instance as you would normally...