Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "All available roles for trustor will be assigned to the trustee if no specific roles are mentioned in the heat.conf file."

A block of code is set as follows:

heat_template_version: 2013-05-23
description: Template that deploys single compute node.
resources:
my_compute-01:
type: OS::Nova::Server
properties:
key_name: my_key
image: F18-x86_64-cfntools
flavor: m1.small

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

keystone endpoint-create --service-id $(keystone service-list | awk '/ cloudformation / {print $2}' --public http://localhost:8000/v2/%\(tenant_id\)s --region regionOne

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Note

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Tip

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