Installing the OpenStack clients
There are a number of OpenStack clients available that are used to interact with OpenStack from the command line. Historically, each service in OpenStack has its own client. For example, the OpenStack Compute project, Nova, has its own nova client. Similarly, the OpenStack networking project, Neutron, also has its own client called neutron client. And so on.
Officially, there is a convergence to using one client: the OpenStack client. However, not all commands and features are available under this one tool. Moreover, the OpenStack client still requires each individual project command-line tool installed to function; however, it provides a more consistent interface without the need to remember each individual project name.
Getting ready
As we are preparing your desktop for interacting with OpenStack from the command line, you will appreciate that there are a variety of choices you can make for your desktop OS of choice. This section will describe the installation...
