Configuring your Windows environment for use with OpenStack requires a little more effort – but the basic premise remains: we're configuring our desktop so that it has access to environment variables, as well as ensuring that our tools, written in Python, are able to execute properly.
The following applies to Windows 10. Ensure that you have followed the steps to install Python.
Carry out the following to load the required environment variables into your Windows session:
- To be able to source in the required OpenStack environment functions as we do on a Unix/Linux platform, we can achieve a similar outcome using some PowerShell. In the PowerShell Terminal, go and grab the following PowerShell script and download it into your working client directory (for example
C:UsersUsernameOpenStack):mkdir OpenStack cd OpenStack wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenStackCookbook/vagrant-openstack/master/Source-OpenRC.ps1 -UseBasicParsing -OutFile Source-OpenRC.ps1
- Using the same OpenStack credentials as described in the Configuring your Linux or macOS environment recipe, ensure that it is named
openrcto match the following example and execute the following in PowerShell:.Source-OpenRC.ps1 .openrcNote
Warning: You may get an error executing the PowerShell script. Most Windows 10 desktops appear to have a default policy of restricted, which excludes the running of PowerShell scripts that aren't signed – even the ones you have created yourself. To remove this for this session, execute the following and acknowledge the warning:
Set-ExecutionPolicy –ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser - You should now be able to use your OpenStack clients under your Windows desktop PowerShell Terminal.
Configuring your Windows environment is a little more involved than it is for Unix/Linux environments. We have to have a mechanism for loading environment variables into our shell that isn't a native feature of Windows. We do this using a PowerShell script. However, we have to remove a restriction to allow this to work. Once we have this all set up correctly, we are able to use the OpenStack environment from our Windows desktop.