Ressourcen

Reverse-specs

Die belegten Spezifikationen der Upstream-Repositorys, erstellt vom Skill generate-reverse-spec: Endpunkte, Fehler, Interaktionen, Szenarien, asynchrone Verarbeitung, Historie und Rewrite Pack.

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barbican

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Barbican is OpenStack's key manager. Projects store secrets (opaque data, passphrases, symmetric keys, public/private keys, certificates), group them in containers (generic, RSA, certificate), and ask Barbican to generate keys through asynchronous…

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cinder

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

Cinder provides block volumes to instances: it creates, snapshots, backs up, extends, retypes, migrates, transfers and deletes volumes, and gives Nova the connection information to attach them. It does not move data on the request path itself: -…

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cloudkitty

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

CloudKitty is OpenStack's rating service: it turns usage into prices. It does not meter anything itself and it does not invoice:

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designate

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Designate is OpenStack's DNS-as-a-Service. Projects create zones and recordsets through a REST API; Designate stores them in its database and publishes them on the DNS servers of a pool. The DNS servers are secondaries: a driver per pool target only…

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ec2-api

17.0.0 · 9 Dateien

ec2-api is a translation layer: it serves the AWS EC2 Query API (Action=RunInstances&Version=…, XML responses, AWS error codes) and turns each action into calls to Nova, Neutron, Cinder and Glance made with the caller's own Keystone token. Requests…

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glance

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

Glance is OpenStack's image service. It keeps the metadata of virtual machine images (formats, sizes, checksums, visibility, sharing, tags, properties) in a SQL database and delegates the data to pluggable stores through the separate glance_store…

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heat

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Heat turns declarative templates (HOT YAML, or AWS CloudFormation JSON/YAML) into running OpenStack resources and keeps them in line with the template over updates. Two stateless API processes translate HTTP into RPC calls to heat-engine, which owns all the…

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ironic

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Ironic provisions physical servers. Operators enrol machines with their BMC credentials; Ironic verifies, inspects and cleans them, and then deploys an image on request — usually from Nova, which schedules bare metal flavors on nodes through Placement and…

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keystone

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Keystone is OpenStack's identity and authorisation service: - it authenticates users, services and federated identities; - it issues tokens that are not stored (Fernet), which the other services have validated by keystonemiddleware; - it holds the…

Tests

keystone-tempest-plugin

master · 9 Dateien

keystone-tempest-plugin is Keystone's black-box test suite: it only drives Keystone through its public API. - Its RBAC tests run the same scenario under 11 personas (system, domain or project scope; admin, manager, member or reader role). For each…

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keystoneauth

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

keystoneauth is the HTTP and authentication library of OpenStack: - it obtains and renews tokens (password, token, application credential, MFA, federation, OAuth…); - it finds endpoints in the catalog and discovers versions and microversions; - it sends…

Bibliotheken

keystonemiddleware

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Each OpenStack service (Nova, Placement, Neutron, Cinder…) puts auth_token in front of its API: 1. it validates the token of each request against Keystone, keeping the result in cache for 300 s; 2. it rejects the request with 401, or lets it through…

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magnum

stable-2026.2 · 10 Dateien

Magnum is OpenStack's "Container Infrastructure Management" service (container-infra): it creates and manages Kubernetes clusters for projects. It has two processes. magnum-api (pecan + WSME, port 9511) validates requests and either answers from the…

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manila

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Manila is OpenStack's Shared File Systems service: it provisions file shares (NFS, CIFS, CephFS…) on storage back ends, controls which clients may mount them (access rules), and manages snapshots, replicas, share groups, transfers, backups and quotas.…

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masakari

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

Masakari provides instance high availability for Nova. Detectors (masakari-monitors, or any client) report failures as notifications of three types: a compute host down, an instance crashed, or a process (nova-compute) died. masakari-api records them…

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neutron

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

Neutron is OpenStack's networking service: it stores the logical network model (networks, subnets, ports, routers, floating IPs, security groups, QoS…) in MariaDB and exposes it through the Networking API v2.0. With ML2/OVN, it does not program the data…

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neutron-fwaas

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

neutron-fwaas adds Firewall-as-a-Service v2 to Neutron: firewall rules (protocol, addresses, ports, allow/deny/reject), ordered into policies, applied through firewall groups to router interface ports (L3) or VM ports (L2).

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neutron-vpnaas

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

neutron-vpnaas adds site-to-site IPsec VPN (pre-shared keys) to Neutron. It is not a separate API service: it is a Neutron service plugin loaded by neutron-server, which exposes five REST resources under /v2.0/vpn (IKE policies, IPsec policies, endpoint…

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nova

stable-2026.2 · 17 Dateien

Nova is the OpenStack compute service: it turns API requests for servers into virtual machines on hypervisor hosts. nova-api validates and records requests in the API database and hands them over RPC to nova-conductor, which asks nova-scheduler for…

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octavia

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

Octavia's API is a load-balancing control plane with almost no behaviour of its own: it validates a request, records the desired objects in SQL with a PENDING_* status while holding a row lock on the load balancer, and calls a provider driver…

Clients

osc-placement

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

osc-placement is the plugin of the openstack command line that drives Placement: resource providers, inventories, allocations, resource classes, traits, aggregates, usages and allocation candidates. Each command: 1. checks the microversion locally; 2. sends…

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oslo.cache

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

oslo.cache turns the [cache] section of an OpenStack service into a dogpile.cache region: - it chooses the backend (null by default, memcached, Redis, etcd…); - it hashes every key with SHA-1; - it gives services a memoization decorator, switched and…

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ovn-bgp-agent

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

ovn-bgp-agent runs on every OpenStack node that uses OVN and makes the IPs that live on that node reachable through BGP: VMs on provider networks, floating IPs, router gateways and, optionally, tenant subnets and load-balancer VIPs. It has no API and no…

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ovn-octavia-provider

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

ovn-octavia-provider lets Octavia create load balancers without amphora VMs: each Octavia load balancer becomes one or more rows of the OVN Northbound Load_Balancer table, which ovn-northd and ovn-controller turn into distributed DNAT flows on every…

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placement

stable-2026.2 · 9 Dateien

Placement is the central registry of consumable resources of an OpenStack cloud. It acts as the ledger of capacities and reservations:

Clients

python-barbicanclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

python-barbicanclient provides three things: 1. a Python library, barbicanclient.client.Client (barbicanclient/client.py:150), which castellan and others use; 2. a plugin of the openstack command with 23 commands on secrets, consumers, orders,…

Clients

python-designateclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

The package has two layers. designateclient.v2.client.Client is a Python library with one controller per resource, on top of a keystoneauth adapter that translates HTTP statuses into exceptions. designateclient.v2.cli holds 60 command classes for…

Clients

python-heatclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

python-heatclient has three layers: 1. OSC plugin (heatclient/osc/): 49 commands of openstack, loaded through entry points (pyproject.toml:42-93). 2. Python API (heatclient/v1/, heatclient/common/): one manager per resource, on top of a…

Clients

python-ironicclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

python-ironicclient is the client of Ironic, the OpenStack Bare Metal service. It gives three ways in:

Clients

python-manilaclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

python-manilaclient is the plugin that gives the openstack CLI its share commands, and a Python library for Manila, the Shared File System service. Each command: 1. resolves its arguments, often by listing a collection to turn a name into an ID; 2. checks…

Clients

python-masakariclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

python-masakariclient is a thin plugin of the openstack command. It adds 15 commands that drive Masakari (instance high availability): failover segments, hosts in a segment, notifications, and VM moves of a notification. It holds no REST code: every call…

Clients

python-neutronclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

The package now provides three different things:

Clients

python-octaviaclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

python-octaviaclient is a plugin of the openstack command. It adds 82 loadbalancer … commands that drive the Octavia REST API. Each invocation is one short-lived process: 1. python-openstackclient loads the plugin through entry points…

Clients

python-openstackclient

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

python-openstackclient (OSC) provides the single openstack command. It runs in one short-lived process per invocation: 1. it parses the global options and reads clouds.yaml and OS_* variables; 2. it loads commands from Python entry points; 3. it…

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skyline-apiserver

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

skyline-apiserver is the back end of the Skyline dashboard (skyline-console). It is not the data path for most of the UI: the console talks to Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance… directly, through an nginx reverse proxy generated from the Keystone catalog…

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skyline-console

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

skyline-console is the React 16 / MobX / Ant Design web UI of OpenStack Skyline. It is a pure client: no server process, no database, no bus. It is built with webpack into static files (skyline_console/static/) and shipped as a Python package.…

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swift

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

Swift is OpenStack's object store. Clients store objects in containers inside accounts (one per Keystone project, AUTH_<project_id>) through a stateless proxy. The proxy finds the storage nodes of every account, container and object with rings (a…

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zun

stable-2026.2 · 8 Dateien

Zun is the OpenStack Containers service: a REST API that runs application containers directly on compute nodes, without a virtual machine and without a user-managed cluster (README.rst:12, doc/source/install/overview.rst:5). A user asks for an image,…