Creating volumes

Now that we have created a Cinder volume service, we can now create volumes for use by our instances. We do this under our client environment using the Python-OpenStack client with the python-cinderclient library; so we are creating volumes specific to our project (tenant).

Tip

Refer to Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, for more information on installing and configuring the OpenStack client.

Getting ready

To create a volume, the following is required:

  • The openstack command line client
  • An openrc file with appropriate credentials for the environment
  • The desired name for the volume
  • The desired size in GiB for the volume

For our example, these are the following:

  • Volume name: cookbook.volume
  • Size: 10 GiB

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps ...

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