Certified OpenStack Administrator Study Guide: Get Everything You Need for the COA Exam

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A. MarkelovCertified OpenStack Administrator Study Guide Certification Study Companion Serieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8804-7_3

3. OpenStack APIs

Andrey Markelov¹  

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Stockholm, Sweden

 

This chapter describes how to use the OpenStack CLI and dashboard. The chapter does not cover exam questions.

Using the OpenStack CLI

OpenStack comes with many client utilities. Most services have their own command-line interface (CLI) utility, which has the same name as the service itself. Some of these utilities will become obsolete because of the universal OpenStack CLI, which this book mainly uses.

You can use the packet manager to identify installed clients.

# rpm ...