Setting up OpenStack python SDK on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6

To setup openstacksdk on Oracle VM Server 3.3.3 or Oracle Enterprise Linux 6:

Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 comes with python 2.6.6 by default.

OpenStackSDK requires at least python 2.7 or 3.3.

Following are the steps to upgrade local python to 2.7.10 and 3.5.0 (the latest as of this writing) and install openstacksdk for development.

It is assumed that OpenStack is hosted on the same host where the test program is being executed.

$ sudo su -

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d

# rm -f *

# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo

# yum clean all

# yum makecache

# yum install gcc

The above step may take quite some time and is only required to install gcc. If one already has gcc installed then skip to the following step.

# yum groupinstall "Development tools"

# yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel gdbm-devel db4-devel libpcap-devel xz-devel

# cd /usr/src

# wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.10/Python-2.7.10.tgz

# wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.0/Python-3.5.0.tgz

Get ez_setup to install easy_install for python interpreter.

# wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py

# tar xzf Python-2.7.10.tgz

# tar xzf Python-3.5.0.tgz

Install Python-2.7.10

# cd Python-2.7.10
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-unicode=ucs4 --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"
# make && make altinstall

# python2.7 -V

# python2.7 ez_setup.py

# easy_install-2.7 pip

OR

Install Python 3.5.0

# cd Python-3.5.0

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"

# make && make altinstall

# python3.5 -V

# python3.3 ez_setup.py

# easy_install-3.3 pip

Setup Virtualenv for your project:

# cd /files/project

# pip2.7 install virtualenv

# virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python2.7 venv

OR 

# python3.5 -m venv venv

Activate virtualenv

# source venv/bin/activate

Now install the SDK:

# pip2.7 install openstacksdk

OR

# pip3.5 install openstacksdk

# Run the following test program (test.py) as:

# python3.5 ./test.py

# OR

# python2.7 ./test.py

from openstack import connection
from openstack import utils
import logging
import sys

# Enable requests logging

logger = logging.getLogger('requests')
formatter = logging.Formatter(
    '%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(name)s %(message)s')
console = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
console.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
logger.addHandler(console)

# Enable logging to console

utils.enable_logging(debug=True, stream=sys.stdout)


# Get connection

conn = connection.Connection(auth_url="http://localhost:5000/v2.0",
                             project_name="admin",
                             username="admin",
                             password="password")


# Get network API

network = conn.network.find_network("watshnet")
if network is None:
    network = conn.network.create_network(name="watshnet")
else:
    print(network)

If everything went fine so far then you are all set to begin writing your extensions for OpenStack. Examples using the sdk are available here - https://github.com/stackforge/python-openstacksdk/tree/master/examples.