Vendor Support

OpenStack presents deployers with many options, some of which can expose differences to end users. os-client-config tries its best to collect information about various things a user would need to know. The following is a text representation of the vendor related defaults os-client-config knows about.

Default Values

These are the default behaviors unless a cloud is configured differently.

  • Identity uses password authentication
  • Identity API Version is 2
  • Image API Version is 1
  • Images must be in qcow2 format
  • Images are uploaded using PUT interface
  • Public IPv4 is directly routable via DHCP from Neutron
  • IPv6 is not provided
  • Floating IPs are provided by Neutron
  • Security groups are provided by Neutron
  • Vendor specific agents are not used

hp

https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0

Region Name Human Name
region-a.geo-1 US West
region-b.geo-1 US East
  • DNS Service Type is hpext:dns
  • Public IPv4 is provided via NAT with Neutron Floating IP

rackspace

https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/

Region Name Human Name
DFW Dallas
ORD Chicago
IAD Washington, D.C.
SYD Sydney
HKG Hong Kong
  • Database Service Type is rax:database
  • Compute Service Name is cloudServersOpenStack
  • Image API Version is 2
  • Images must be in vhd format
  • Images must be uploaded using the Glance Task Interface
  • Floating IPs are not needed
  • Public IPv4 is directly routable via static config by Nova
  • IPv6 is provided to every server
  • Security groups are not supported
  • Uploaded Images need properties to not use vendor agent
vm_mode:hvm
xenapi_use_agent:
 False

dreamhost

https://keystone.dream.io/v2.0

Region Name Human Name
RegionOne Region One
  • Image API Version is 2
  • Images must be in raw format
  • Public IPv4 is provided via NAT with Neutron Floating IP
  • IPv6 is provided to every server

vexxhost

http://auth.api.thenebulacloud.com:5000/v2.0/

Region Name Human Name
ca-ymq-1 Montreal
  • Image API Version is 2

runabove

https://auth.runabove.io/v2.0

Region Name Human Name
SBG-1 Strassbourg, FR
BHS-1 Beauharnois, QC
  • Image API Version is 2
  • Images must be in qcow2 format
  • Floating IPs are not supported

unitedstack

https://identity.api.ustack.com/v3

Region Name Human Name
bj1 Beijing
gd1 Guangdong
  • Identity API Version is 3
  • Image API Version is 2
  • Images must be in raw format

auro

https://api.auro.io:5000/v2.0

Region Name Human Name
RegionOne RegionOne
  • Identity API Version is 2
  • Public IPv4 is provided via NAT with Nova Floating IP
  • Floating IPs are provided by Nova
  • Security groups are provided by Nova

ovh

https://auth.cloud.ovh.net/v2.0

Region Name Human Name
SBG-1 Strassbourg, FR
  • Images must be in raw format
  • Floating IPs are not supported

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