bookofnova 0.003

Nova Action Library for Openstack Compute

Date:

2012-03-08 16:22

tags:

Openstack, Nova Compute, Nova

category:

*nix

Access Openstack Nova Compute via Python

General Overview

This is a VERY Simple library which I have found useful in projects where I needed access to the Openstack NOVA Compute API and I did not want to bother with novaclient.

Functions of the Library :

• Do Openstack Nova Things

• Presently only supports Openstack Nova Compute, but does so for both Vanilla Openstack and the Rackspace Open Cloud

• Not all of the functions are built-in however the library is extendable and I would be happy to add things in as needed / requested.

Prerequisites :

• Python => 2.6 but < 3.0

Installation is simple :

git clone git://github.com/cloudnull/bookofnova.git
cd bookofnova
python setup.py install

Now in your application Import bookofnova and go forth and Access Openstack Nova.

Application Usage

Here is some Basic Usage :

# Everything in this dictionary is a string, fill in the needed values.
m_args = {"os_user": 'YOURUSERNAME',
          "os_apikey": 'RANDOMNUMBERSANDTHINGS',
          "os_auth_url": None,
          "os_rax_auth": 'ALOCATION',
          "os_verbose": None,
          "os_password": None,
          "os_tenant": None,
          "os_region": None,
          "os_version": 'v2.0'}

# The "__future__" import is not required, but its nice for the example
from __future__ import print_function
from bookofnova import authentication, computelib, connections

# Set output / Logging
output = print

# Authentication with Nova
auth = authentication.Authentication(m_args=m_args,
                                     output=output)
service_cat = auth.os_auth()

# Tell the book of Nova that you are ready
nova = computelib.NovaCommands(m_args=m_args,
                               output=output)

# Using Nova to show a list of all Instances
servers = nova.server_list()
print(servers)

# now everything that you ever wanted to know from a Openstack Nova
# query can be found in your dictionary under the key 'nova_resp'

Get Social

See https://github.com/cloudnull/bookofnova/issues for Issues or Feature requests

License

Copyright [2013] [Kevin Carter]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.