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OpenStack v5.0.4 published on Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025 by Pulumi
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Openstack Provider

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OpenStack v5.0.4 published on Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025 by Pulumi
pulumi/pulumi-openstack

    Installation

    The openstack provider is available as a package in all Pulumi languages:

    Overview

    The OpenStack provider is used to interact with the many resources supported by OpenStack. The provider needs to be configured with the proper credentials before it can be used.

    Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.

    Example Usage

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: nodejs
config:
    openstack:authUrl:
        value: http://myauthurl:5000/v3
    openstack:password:
        value: pwd
    openstack:region:
        value: RegionOne
    openstack:tenantName:
        value: admin
    openstack:userName:
        value: admin

    import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as openstack from "@pulumi/openstack";

// Create a web server
const test_server = new openstack.compute.Instance("test-server", {});

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: python
config:
    openstack:authUrl:
        value: http://myauthurl:5000/v3
    openstack:password:
        value: pwd
    openstack:region:
        value: RegionOne
    openstack:tenantName:
        value: admin
    openstack:userName:
        value: admin

    import pulumi
import pulumi_openstack as openstack

# Create a web server
test_server = openstack.compute.Instance("test-server")

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: dotnet
config:
    openstack:authUrl:
        value: http://myauthurl:5000/v3
    openstack:password:
        value: pwd
    openstack:region:
        value: RegionOne
    openstack:tenantName:
        value: admin
    openstack:userName:
        value: admin

    using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Pulumi;
using OpenStack = Pulumi.OpenStack;

return await Deployment.RunAsync(() =>
{
    // Create a web server
    var test_server = new OpenStack.Compute.Instance("test-server");

});

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: go
config:
    openstack:authUrl:
        value: http://myauthurl:5000/v3
    openstack:password:
        value: pwd
    openstack:region:
        value: RegionOne
    openstack:tenantName:
        value: admin
    openstack:userName:
        value: admin

    package main

import (
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi-openstack/sdk/v4/go/openstack/compute"
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v3/go/pulumi"
)

func main() {
	pulumi.Run(func(ctx *pulumi.Context) error {
		// Create a web server
		_, err := compute.NewInstance(ctx, "test-server", nil)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		return nil
	})
}

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: yaml
config:
    openstack:authUrl:
        value: http://myauthurl:5000/v3
    openstack:password:
        value: pwd
    openstack:region:
        value: RegionOne
    openstack:tenantName:
        value: admin
    openstack:userName:
        value: admin

    resources:
  # Create a web server
  test-server:
    type: openstack:compute:Instance

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: java
config:
    openstack:authUrl:
        value: http://myauthurl:5000/v3
    openstack:password:
        value: pwd
    openstack:region:
        value: RegionOne
    openstack:tenantName:
        value: admin
    openstack:userName:
        value: admin

    package generated_program;

import com.pulumi.Context;
import com.pulumi.Pulumi;
import com.pulumi.core.Output;
import com.pulumi.openstack.compute.Instance;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pulumi.run(App::stack);
    }

    public static void stack(Context ctx) {
        // Create a web server
        var test_server = new Instance("test-server");

    }
}

    Configuration Reference

    The following configuration inputs are supported:

    • authUrl - (Optional; required if cloud is not specified) The Identity authentication URL. If omitted, the OS_AUTH_URL environment variable is used.

    • cloud - (Optional; required if authUrl is not specified) An entry in a clouds.yaml file. See the OpenStack openstacksdk documentation for more information about clouds.yaml files. If omitted, the OS_CLOUD environment variable is used.

    • region - (Optional) The region of the OpenStack cloud to use. If omitted, the OS_REGION_NAME environment variable is used. If OS_REGION_NAME is not set, then no region will be used. It should be possible to omit the region in single-region OpenStack environments, but this behavior may vary depending on the OpenStack environment being used.

    • userName - (Optional) The Username to login with. If omitted, the OS_USERNAME environment variable is used.

    • userId - (Optional) The User ID to login with. If omitted, the OS_USER_ID environment variable is used.

    • applicationCredentialId - (Optional) (Identity v3 only) The ID of an application credential to authenticate with. An applicationCredentialSecret has to bet set along with this parameter. If omitted, the OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID environment variable is used.

    • applicationCredentialName - (Optional) (Identity v3 only) The name of an application credential to authenticate with. Requires userId, or userName and userDomainName (or userDomainId) to be set. If omitted, the OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME environment variable is used.

    • applicationCredentialSecret - (Optional) (Identity v3 only) The secret of an application credential to authenticate with. Required by applicationCredentialId or applicationCredentialName. If omitted, the OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET environment variable is used.

    • tenantId - (Optional) The ID of the Tenant (Identity v2) or Project (Identity v3) to login with. If omitted, the OS_TENANT_ID or OS_PROJECT_ID environment variables are used.

    • tenantName - (Optional) The Name of the Tenant (Identity v2) or Project (Identity v3) to login with. If omitted, the OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME environment variable are used.

    • password - (Optional) The Password to login with. If omitted, the OS_PASSWORD environment variable is used.

    • token - (Optional; Required if not using userName and password) A token is an expiring, temporary means of access issued via the Keystone service. By specifying a token, you do not have to specify a username/password combination, since the token was already created by a username/password out of band of Pulumi. If omitted, the OS_TOKEN or OS_AUTH_TOKEN environment variables are used.

    • userDomainName - (Optional) The domain name where the user is located. If omitted, the OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME environment variable is checked.

    • userDomainId - (Optional) The domain ID where the user is located. If omitted, the OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID environment variable is checked.

    • projectDomainName - (Optional) The domain name where the project is located. If omitted, the OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME environment variable is checked.

    • projectDomainId - (Optional) The domain ID where the project is located. If omitted, the OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID environment variable is checked.

    • domainId - (Optional) The ID of the Domain to scope to (Identity v3). If omitted, the OS_DOMAIN_ID environment variable is checked.

    • domainName - (Optional) The Name of the Domain to scope to (Identity v3). If omitted, the following environment variables are checked (in this order): OS_DOMAIN_NAME.

    • defaultDomain - (Optional) The ID of the Domain to scope to if no other domain is specified (Identity v3). If omitted, the environment variable OS_DEFAULT_DOMAIN is checked or a default value of “default” will be used.

    • systemScope - (Optional) Set to true to enable system scoped authorization. If omitted, the OS_SYSTEM_SCOPE environment variable is used.

    • insecure - (Optional) Trust self-signed SSL certificates. If omitted, the OS_INSECURE environment variable is used.

    • cacertFile - (Optional) Specify a custom CA certificate when communicating over SSL. You can specify either a path to the file or the contents of the certificate. If omitted, the OS_CACERT environment variable is used.

    • cert - (Optional) Specify client certificate file for SSL client authentication. You can specify either a path to the file or the contents of the certificate. If omitted the OS_CERT environment variable is used.

    • key - (Optional) Specify client private key file for SSL client authentication. You can specify either a path to the file or the contents of the key. If omitted the OS_KEY environment variable is used.

    • endpointType - (Optional) Specify which type of endpoint to use from the service catalog. It can be set using the OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE environment variable. If not set, public endpoints is used.

    • endpointOverrides - (Optional) A set of key/value pairs that can override an endpoint for a specified OpenStack service. Setting an override requires you to specify the full and complete endpoint URL. This might also invalidate any region you have set, too. Please see below for more details. Please use this at your own risk.

    • swauth - (Optional) Set to true to authenticate against Swauth, a Swift-native authentication system. If omitted, the OS_SWAUTH environment variable is used. You must also set username to the Swauth/Swift username such as username:project. Set the password to the Swauth/Swift key. Finally, set authUrl as the location of the Swift service. Note that this will only work when used with the OpenStack Object Storage resources.

    • disableNoCacheHeader - (Optional) If set to true, the HTTP Cache-Control: no-cache header will not be added by default to all API requests. If omitted this header is added to all API requests to force HTTP caches (if any) to go upstream instead of serving cached responses.

    • delayedAuth - (Optional) If set to false, OpenStack authorization will be perfomed, every time the service provider client is called. Defaults to true. If omitted, the OS_DELAYED_AUTH environment variable is checked.

    • allowReauth - (Optional) If set to false, OpenStack authorization won’t be perfomed automatically, if the initial auth token get expired. Defaults to true. If omitted, the OS_ALLOW_REAUTH environment variable is checked.

    • maxRetries - (Optional) If set to a value greater than 0, the OpenStack client will retry failed HTTP connections and Too Many Requests (429 code) HTTP responses with a Retry-After header within the specified value.

    • enableLogging - (Optional) When enabled, generates verbose logs containing all the calls made to and responses received from OpenStack.

    Overriding Service API Endpoints

    There might be a situation in which you want or need to override an API endpoint rather than use the endpoint which was returned to you in the service catalog. You can do this by configuring the endpointOverrides argument in the provider configuration:

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: nodejs
config:
    openstack:endpointOverrides:
        value:
            network: https://example.com:9696/v2.0/
            volumev2: https://volumes.example.com:8776/v2/3eb25ae78e7b42d68276e9bca66c8e44/

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: python
config:
    openstack:endpointOverrides:
        value:
            network: https://example.com:9696/v2.0/
            volumev2: https://volumes.example.com:8776/v2/3eb25ae78e7b42d68276e9bca66c8e44/

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: dotnet
config:
    openstack:endpointOverrides:
        value:
            network: https://example.com:9696/v2.0/
            volumev2: https://volumes.example.com:8776/v2/3eb25ae78e7b42d68276e9bca66c8e44/

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: go
config:
    openstack:endpointOverrides:
        value:
            network: https://example.com:9696/v2.0/
            volumev2: https://volumes.example.com:8776/v2/3eb25ae78e7b42d68276e9bca66c8e44/

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: yaml
config:
    openstack:endpointOverrides:
        value:
            network: https://example.com:9696/v2.0/
            volumev2: https://volumes.example.com:8776/v2/3eb25ae78e7b42d68276e9bca66c8e44/

    # Pulumi.yaml provider configuration file
name: configuration-example
runtime: java
config:
    openstack:endpointOverrides:
        value:
            network: https://example.com:9696/v2.0/
            volumev2: https://volumes.example.com:8776/v2/3eb25ae78e7b42d68276e9bca66c8e44/

    Note how each URL ends in a “/” and the volumev2 service includes the tenant/project UUID. You must make sure you specify the full and complete endpoint URL for this to work.

    The service keys are the standard service entries used in the OpenStack Identity/Keystone service catalog. This provider supports:

    • compute: Compute / Nova v2
    • container-infra: Container Infra / Magnum v1
    • database: Database / Trove v1
    • dns: DNS / Designate v2
    • identity: Identity / Keystone v3
    • image: Image / Glance v2
    • network: Networking / Neutron v2
    • object-store: Object Storage / Swift v1
    • octavia: Load Balancing as a Service / Octavia v2
    • sharev2: Shared Filesystem / Manila v2
    • volume: Block Storage / Cinder v1
    • volumev2: Block Storage / Cinder v2
    • volumev3: Block Storage / Cinder v3

    Please use this feature at your own risk. If you are unsure about needing to override an endpoint, you most likely do not need to override one.

    OpenStack Releases and Versions

    This provider aims to support “vanilla” OpenStack. This means that we do all testing and development using the official upstream OpenStack code. If your OpenStack environment has patches or modifications, we do our best to accommodate these modifications, but we can’t guarantee this.

    We try to support all releases of OpenStack when we can. If your OpenStack cloud is running an older release, we still should be able to support it.

    Octavia api versioning

    Octavia api is using minor versions when adding new features and functionality. The required minor version of each feature are documented on the resource page. When using such a feature ensure that your Openstack cloud supports the required minor version. A simple way of checking which minor versions are supported on your Openstack cloud is the following:

    export OS_TOKEN=`openstack token issue -c id -f value`
curl -s -H "X-Auth-Token: $OS_TOKEN"  "https://example.com:9876/"

    Rackspace Compatibility

    Using this OpenStack provider with Rackspace is not supported and not guaranteed to work; however, users have reported success with the following notes in mind:

    • Interacting with instances and networks has been seen to work. Interacting with all other resources is either untested or known to not work.

    • Use your password instead of your Rackspace API KEY.

    • To use networks, override the endpoint in your provider configuration

    provider "openstack" {
  user_name = "your-username"
  password  = "your-password"
  tenant_id = "your-tenant-id"
  region    = "IAD"
  auth_url  = "https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/"
  endpoint_overrides = {
    "network" = "https://iad.networks.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/"
  }
}
    • Explicitly define the public and private networks in your instances as shown below:
    import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as openstack from "@pulumi/openstack";

const myInstance = new openstack.compute.Instance("my_instance", {
    name: "my_instance",
    region: "DFW",
    imageId: "fabe045f-43f8-4991-9e6c-5cabd617538c",
    flavorId: "general1-4",
    keyPair: "provisioning_key",
    networks: [
        {
            uuid: "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
            name: "public",
        },
        {
            uuid: "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
            name: "private",
        },
    ],
});

    import pulumi
import pulumi_openstack as openstack

my_instance = openstack.compute.Instance("my_instance",
    name="my_instance",
    region="DFW",
    image_id="fabe045f-43f8-4991-9e6c-5cabd617538c",
    flavor_id="general1-4",
    key_pair="provisioning_key",
    networks=[
        {
            "uuid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
            "name": "public",
        },
        {
            "uuid": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
            "name": "private",
        },
    ])

    using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Pulumi;
using OpenStack = Pulumi.OpenStack;

return await Deployment.RunAsync(() =>
{
    var myInstance = new OpenStack.Compute.Instance("my_instance", new()
    {
        Name = "my_instance",
        Region = "DFW",
        ImageId = "fabe045f-43f8-4991-9e6c-5cabd617538c",
        FlavorId = "general1-4",
        KeyPair = "provisioning_key",
        Networks = new[]
        {
            new OpenStack.Compute.Inputs.InstanceNetworkArgs
            {
                Uuid = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
                Name = "public",
            },
            new OpenStack.Compute.Inputs.InstanceNetworkArgs
            {
                Uuid = "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
                Name = "private",
            },
        },
    });

});

    package main

import (
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi-openstack/sdk/v4/go/openstack/compute"
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v3/go/pulumi"
)

func main() {
	pulumi.Run(func(ctx *pulumi.Context) error {
		_, err := compute.NewInstance(ctx, "my_instance", &compute.InstanceArgs{
			Name:     pulumi.String("my_instance"),
			Region:   pulumi.String("DFW"),
			ImageId:  pulumi.String("fabe045f-43f8-4991-9e6c-5cabd617538c"),
			FlavorId: pulumi.String("general1-4"),
			KeyPair:  pulumi.String("provisioning_key"),
			Networks: compute.InstanceNetworkArray{
				&compute.InstanceNetworkArgs{
					Uuid: pulumi.String("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"),
					Name: pulumi.String("public"),
				},
				&compute.InstanceNetworkArgs{
					Uuid: pulumi.String("11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"),
					Name: pulumi.String("private"),
				},
			},
		})
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		return nil
	})
}

    resources:
  myInstance:
    type: openstack:compute:Instance
    name: my_instance
    properties:
      name: my_instance
      region: DFW
      imageId: fabe045f-43f8-4991-9e6c-5cabd617538c
      flavorId: general1-4
      keyPair: provisioning_key
      networks:
        - uuid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
          name: public
        - uuid: 11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111
          name: private

    package generated_program;

import com.pulumi.Context;
import com.pulumi.Pulumi;
import com.pulumi.core.Output;
import com.pulumi.openstack.compute.Instance;
import com.pulumi.openstack.compute.InstanceArgs;
import com.pulumi.openstack.compute.inputs.InstanceNetworkArgs;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pulumi.run(App::stack);
    }

    public static void stack(Context ctx) {
        var myInstance = new Instance("myInstance", InstanceArgs.builder()
            .name("my_instance")
            .region("DFW")
            .imageId("fabe045f-43f8-4991-9e6c-5cabd617538c")
            .flavorId("general1-4")
            .keyPair("provisioning_key")
            .networks(
                InstanceNetworkArgs.builder()
                    .uuid("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")
                    .name("public")
                    .build(),
                InstanceNetworkArgs.builder()
                    .uuid("11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111")
                    .name("private")
                    .build())
            .build());

    }
}

    If you try using this provider with Rackspace and run into bugs, you are welcomed to open a bug report / issue on Github, but please keep in mind that this is unsupported and the reported bug may not be able to be fixed.

    If you have successfully used this provider with Rackspace and can add any additional comments, please let us know.

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