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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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