nova

The OpenStack project that provides a way to provision compute instances. More information: <https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/nova.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install python-novaclient
Ubuntu
apt-get install python-novaclient
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S python-novaclient
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install python-novaclient
Fedora
dnf install python-novaclient
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-novaclient
Raspbian
apt-get install python-novaclient
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/nova

The OpenStack project that provides a way to provision compute instances. More information: <https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/>.

  • List VMs on current tenant:
    nova list
  • List VMs of all tenants (admin user only):
    nova list --all-tenants
  • Boot a VM on a specific host:
    nova boot --nic net-id=net_id --image image_id --flavor flavor --availability-zone nova:host_name vm_name
  • Start a server:
    nova start server
  • Stop a server:
    nova stop server
  • Attach a network interface to a specific VM:
    nova interface-attach --net-id net_id server

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