[Openstack] Rackspace Cloud and Openstack Client compatibility

Gintautas Sulskus gintautas.sulskus at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 09:15:14 UTC 2017


Thanks Robert for the clarification.

Best,
Gintas

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Van Leeuwen, Robert <rovanleeuwen at ebay.com>
wrote:

> > I checked Terraform which presumably uses Heat client (
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackClients#Official_Clients)
>
> > but it also says that Rackspace is not officially supported due to some
> differences (https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/openstack/
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.terraform.io%2Fdocs%2Fproviders%2Fopenstack%2F&data=02%7C01%7Crovanleeuwen%40ebay.com%7Ce10ffdbe2a8a449bd82f08d50f59942e%7C46326bff992841a0baca17c16c94ea99%7C0%7C0%7C636431799766958887&sdata=rKqf5ruqVnnoEv0nPuIjFaJaA4ksUFGEqTsdKH86Szo%3D&reserved=0>
> ).
>
>
>
> A bit off-topic:
>
> Terraform uses the gophercloud go library to talk directly to the
> Keystone/Neutron/Nova OpenStack APIs
>
> It is not using Heat in the background.
>
> Very simplified I would say terraform is a cloud vendor-neutral (ish)
> replacement for Heat which is run client-side instead of server-side.
>
>
>
> >Am missing something or Rackspace Cloud and the OpenStack clients are not
> compatible?
>
> >Has anyone been successful in fully managing Rackspace with OpenStack
> tools?
>
>
>
> Never played with Rackspace Cloud, cannot help you here.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert van Leeuwen
>
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