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

Gauvain Pocentek gauvain.pocentek at objectif-libre.com
Wed Nov 13 15:23:08 UTC 2013


Le 13/11/2013 15:43, Andreas Jaeger a écrit :
> 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

Yep, that was the plan. I'll see if I can manage to use common 
files/data.

Thanks,
Gauvain



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