[Openstack-docs] A bit more info about CLI in the install guide?

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Wed Nov 13 14:43:45 UTC 2013


On 11/13/2013 12:22 AM, Gauvain Pocentek wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 13/11/2013 04:16, Lorin Hochstein a écrit :
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Gauvain Pocentek
>> <gauvain.pocentek at objectif-libre.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've started to work on
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1245946 [1], but
>>> there seems to be a more general problem about the install guide than
>>> the problem described in this bug. It's not clear in the guide that
>>> CLI tools can be used everywhere, including outside of the OS
>>> servers. You don't want to log on the servers to issue user commands
>>> in production :)
>>>
>>> So I believe this should be documented in the install guide. My
>>> question is, where? Does this deserve a small section? Would a note
>>> be enough?
>>>
>>> Would love some advice on this!
>>
>> My instinct would be to add a chapter before "Configure the Identity
>> Service" that describes how the CLI tools can be run from anywhere,
>> assuming that the credentials are set correctly, the relevant API
>> service is up and running, and that the API service is reachable from
>> the client.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback. If there's no objection from others I'll get
> started on that.


The End User Guide has already some content, I suggest you have a look
whether you can reuse/share content some like:
http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/cli_openrc.html

Andreas
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