This document gives a quick introduction to using the Openstack Python client to discover and consume compute resources.

Before beginning, get an account as described in the Introduction

From a suitable host (this was done on linux.cs.uchicago.edu), create your environment.

$ python3 -m venv cloudsdk
$ source cloudsdk/bin/activate
$ pip3 install openstacksdk
$ python -m openstack version