Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

Setting environment variables

To avoid having to provide credentials every time you run an OpenStack command, create a file containing environment variables that can be loaded at any time. The following commands will create a file named adminrc containing environment variables for the admin user:

    # cat >> ~/adminrc <<EOF     export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=default     export OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=default     export OS_PROJECT_NAME=admin     export OS_USERNAME=admin     export OS_PASSWORD=openstack     export OS_AUTH_URL=http://controller01:35357/v3     export OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION=3     EOF

The following commands will create a file named demorc containing environment variables for the demo user:

    # cat >> ~/demorc <<EOF     export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=default export OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=default ...