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Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

You're reading from   Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam A complete guide for developers taking tests conducted by the OpenStack Foundation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288416
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matt Dorn Matt Dorn
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing OpenStack and the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Your Practice Exam Environment 3. Keystone Identity Service 4. Glance Image Service 5. Nova Compute Service 6. Neutron Networking Service 7. Cinder Block-Storage Service 8. Swift Object-Storage Service 9. Heat Orchestration Service 10. Troubleshooting 11. Final Tips and Tricks 12. Practice Exam

CLI help

If you forget how a specific CLI command works, you can always rely on the help! Here are some examples of using python-openstackclient help.

Figure 11.4: Output from the 'openstack help' command

Using the help is a two-step process.

Step 1: Determine how to perform a particular action using openstack help.

You can filter specific actions using grep. Here are some examples:

$ openstack help | grep domain
$ openstack help | grep project
$ openstack help | grep image
$ openstack help | grep server
$ openstack help | grep network
$ openstack help | grep volume

Step 2: After you find out the action you want to perform, you can provide --help to explore all available positional arguments and flags. Here are some examples:

$ openstack domain create --help
$ openstack project create --help
$ openstack image add project --help
$ openstack server create --help
$ openstack...
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