Creating volumes

Now that we have created a Cinder volume service, we can now create volumes for use by our instances. We do this under our client environment using the Python-OpenStack client with the python-cinderclient library; so we are creating volumes specific to our project (tenant).

Note

Refer to Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, for more information on installing and configuring the OpenStack client.

Getting ready

To create a volume, the following is required:

• The openstack command line client

• An openrc file with appropriate credentials for the environment

• The desired name for the volume

• The desired size in GiB for the volume

For our example, these are the following:

• Volume name: cookbook.volume

• Size: 10 GiB

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to create a volume:

We simply create the volume that we will attach to our instance with the following command:

openstack volume create
    --size 10
    --description "Cookbook Volume"
    cookbook.volume

On completion, the command returns the...