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You're reading from OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788398763

Length 398 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

OpenStack

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

James Denton

Egle Sigler

Cody Bunch

Kevin Jackson

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition

Contributors

Preface

Another Book You May Enjoy

1. Installing OpenStack with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. The OpenStack Client

3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service

4. Neutron – OpenStack Networking

5. Nova – OpenStack Compute

6. Glance – OpenStack Image Service

7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage

8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage

9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible

10. Using OpenStack Dashboard

Index

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...

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