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Introduction

The OpenRC file will set your environment variables so that you can quickly connect your Openstack client to your Breqwatr environment. You can download your users specific file after logging into the Arcus User Interface.

To download your OpenRC file:

  • Step 1: Login to the Arcus UI
  • Step 2: Download the openrc file from the users menu
  • Step 3: Source the file

Step 1: Login to Arcus

  • Login to the Arcus UI using your user account

Login in

Step 2: Download your openrc file from the user menu

  • Left click on your username in the top right corner to expand the user menu
  • click on RC File option

RC File Download

Step 3: Source the File

  • (Optional) Edit the openrc file, add in your user password. If you do not put the password in, you will be prompted to enter the password when you run an openstack command.

OpenRC File

Note If your Openstack deployment uses a Self-Signed SSL certificate you will need to uncomment the last line and include a copy of the certificate.

  • Source the file and test an openstack command to verify connectivity
root@os-host:~$source demo-openrc.sh
root@os-host:~$openstack server list

Make sure you can connect to the OS_AUTH_URL from the host you are using, in our example make sure we can ping cloud.breqwatr.com.