Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

Defining services and API endpoints in Keystone

Each OpenStack service that is installed should be registered with the Identity service so that its location on the network can be tracked. There are two commands involved in registering a service:

• openstack service create: Describes the service that is being created
• openstack endpoint create: Associates API endpoints with the service

The OpenStack Identity service and endpoint were created during the bootstrap process earlier in this chapter. You can verify the objects were created using the openstack endpoint list and openstack service list commands as shown here:

The IDs of resources within ...