Chapter 1. Accessing the RHOSO cloud


You can access your Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) cloud to perform actions on your data plane by either accessing the OpenStackClient pod through a remote shell from your workstation, or by using a browser to access the Dashboard service (horizon) interface.

1.1. Accessing the OpenStackClient pod

You can execute Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) commands on the deployed data plane by using the OpenStackClient pod through a remote shell from your workstation. The OpenStack Operator created the OpenStackClient pod as a part of the OpenStackControlPlane resource. The OpenStackClient pod contains the client tools and authentication details that you require to perform actions on your data plane.

Prerequisites

  • You are logged on to a workstation that has access to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) cluster as a user with cluster-admin privileges.

Procedure

  1. Access the remote shell for the OpenStackClient pod:

    $ oc rsh -n openstack openstackclient
  2. Run your openstack commands. For example, you can create a default network with the following command:

    $ openstack network create default
  3. Exit the OpenStackClient pod:

    $ exit

You can access the OpenStack Dashboard service (horizon) interface by providing the Dashboard service endpoint URL in a browser.

Prerequisites

  • The Dashboard service is enabled on the control plane. For information about how to enable the Dashboard service, see Enabling the Dashboard service (horizon) interface in Customizing the Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift deployment.
  • You need to log into the Dashboard as the admin user.

Procedure

  1. Retrieve the admin password from the AdminPassword parameter in the osp-secret secret:

    $ oc get secret osp-secret -o jsonpath='{.data.AdminPassword}' | base64 -d
  2. Retrieve the Dashboard service endpoint URL:

    $ oc get horizons horizon -o jsonpath='{.status.endpoint}'
  3. Open a browser.
  4. Enter the Dashboard endpoint URL.
  5. Log in to the Dashboard by providing the username of admin and the admin password.
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