Common OpenStack storage tasks

This section outlines a number of common tasks using the OpenStack Block and Object Storage service. For more information on storage, refer to Chapter 7, Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage and Chapter 8, Swift – OpenStack Object Storage.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have the OpenStack clients installed, as described in the first recipes of this chapter.

How to do it…

Carry out the following steps to create and modify users and projects in OpenStack:

Create a new Cinder volume

To create a new Cinder block storage volume, carry out the following command. The size is in gigabytes:

openstack volume create --size 5 my5GVolume

Attaching a volume

To attach a volume to a running instance, carry out the following command. The running ...

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