Transition from Profile¶

Writing Code that Works with Both¶

These examples should all work with both the old and new interface, with one caveat. With the old interface, the CloudConfig object comes from the os-client-config library, and in the new interface that has been moved into the SDK. In order to write code that works with both the old and new interfaces, use the following code to import the config namespace:

try:
    from openstack import config as occ
except ImportError:
    from os_client_config import config as occ

The examples will assume that the config module has been imported in that manner.

Replacing authenticator¶

There is no direct replacement for openstack.auth.base.BaseAuthPlugin. openstacksdk uses the keystoneauth library for authentication and HTTP interactions. keystoneauth has auth plugins that can be used to control how authentication is done. The auth_type config parameter can be set to choose the correct authentication method to be used.

Replacing Profile¶

The right way to replace the use of openstack.profile.Profile depends a bit on what you’re trying to accomplish. Common patterns are listed below, but in general the approach is either to pass a cloud name to the openstack.connection.Connection constructor, or to construct a openstack.config.cloud_region.CloudRegion object and pass it to the constructor.

All of the examples on this page assume that you want to support old and new interfaces simultaneously. There are easier and less verbose versions of each that are available if you can just make a clean transition.

Getting a Connection to a named cloud from clouds.yaml¶

If you want is to construct a openstack.connection.Connection based on parameters configured in a clouds.yaml file, or from environment variables:

import openstack.connection

conn = connection.from_config(cloud_name='name-of-cloud-you-want')

Getting a Connection from python arguments avoiding clouds.yaml¶

If, on the other hand, you want to construct a openstack.connection.Connection, but are in a context where reading config from a clouds.yaml file is undesirable, such as inside of a Service:

• create a openstack.config.loader.OpenStackConfig object, telling it to not load yaml files. Optionally pass an app_name and app_version which will be added to user-agent strings.
• get a openstack.config.cloud_region.CloudRegion object from it
• get a openstack.connection.Connection

try:
    from openstack import config as occ
except ImportError:
    from os_client_config import config as occ
from openstack import connection

loader = occ.OpenStackConfig(
    load_yaml_files=False,
    app_name='spectacular-app',
    app_version='1.0')
cloud_region = loader.get_one_cloud(
    region_name='my-awesome-region',
    auth_type='password',
    auth=dict(
        auth_url='https://auth.example.com',
        username='amazing-user',
        user_domain_name='example-domain',
        project_name='astounding-project',
        user_project_name='example-domain',
        password='super-secret-password',
    ))
conn = connection.from_config(cloud_config=cloud_region)

Getting a Connection from python arguments and optionally clouds.yaml¶

If you want to make a connection from python arguments and want to allow one of them to optionally be cloud to allow selection of a named cloud, it’s essentially the same as the previous example, except without load_yaml_files=False.

try:
    from openstack import config as occ
except ImportError:
    from os_client_config import config as occ
from openstack import connection

loader = occ.OpenStackConfig(
    app_name='spectacular-app',
    app_version='1.0')
cloud_region = loader.get_one_cloud(
    region_name='my-awesome-region',
    auth_type='password',
    auth=dict(
        auth_url='https://auth.example.com',
        username='amazing-user',
        user_domain_name='example-domain',
        project_name='astounding-project',
        user_project_name='example-domain',
        password='super-secret-password',
      ))
conn = connection.from_config(cloud_config=cloud_region)

Parameters to get_one_cloud¶

The most important things to note are:

• auth_type specifies which kind of authentication plugin to use. It controls how authentication is done, as well as what parameters are required.
• auth is a dictionary containing the parameters needed by the auth plugin. The most common information it needs are user, project, domain, auth_url and password.
• The rest of the keyword arguments to openstack.config.loader.OpenStackConfig.get_one_cloud are either parameters needed by the keystoneauth Session object, which control how HTTP connections are made, or parameters needed by the keystoneauth Adapter object, which control how services are found in the Keystone Catalog.

For keystoneauth Adapter parameters, since there is one openstack.connection.Connection object but many services, per-service parameters are formed by using the official service_type of the service in question. For instance, to override the endpoint for the compute service, the parameter compute_endpoint_override would be used.

region_name in openstack.profile.Profile was a per-service parameter. This is no longer a valid concept. An openstack.connection.Connection is a connection to a region of a cloud. If you are in an extreme situation where you have one service in one region and a different service in a different region, you must use two different openstack.connection.Connection objects.