Hello OpenStack folks, As part of my dev work I recently put together a cool little tool which lets me have much easier access to the various OpenStack python clients in the scope of a python interpreter session. The first version was a little rough and without os-client-config support. The current version is now a plugin for the openstackclient and introduces a command that simply authenticates you, sets up the environment and helper tools, and then drops you into an ipython interactive session. The helper stuff is fairly simple, but combined with the features of ipython it really lets you start playing with the tools quickly, and by piggybacking onto openstackclient I get access to a lot of the niceties and inbuilt auth mechanisms.
It is useful for learning, testing, or development against the various openstack client libraries, and even as an ops tool to quickly run some basic actions without having to resort to weird or silly bash command combinations. I personally use it to test out commands or libraries I'm not familiar with, or if I just need to work out what the output from something is. Often even doing once off admin actions that require parsing through and comparing different values and resources, but isn't worth writing a script for. My goal was to make something easy to use, and help almost anyone pick up and start using the various python clients without needing to dig through too much docs. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openstack-interpreter Feedback is welcome! Cheers, Adrian Turjak __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
