Chapter 4. Accessing the overcloud


The director generates a script to configure and help authenticate interactions with your overcloud from the undercloud. The director saves this file (overcloudrc) in your stack user’s home directory. Run the following command to use this file:

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$ source ~/overcloudrc

This loads the necessary environment variables to interact with your overcloud from the undercloud CLI. To return to interacting with the undercloud, run the following command:

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$ source ~/stackrc
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