Use of OS_REGION_NAME

[dmbuil]

I have a multi-region OpenStack environment, and the osc commands only "detects" the last Region returned by the discovery endpoint.

My clouds.yaml file is something like this

...
  my-lab:
    auth:
      auth_url: https://keystone.central-1.lab.dev
      username: "cloudmin"
      password: "XXXXXXXXXXXX"
      project_name: "admin"
      project_domain_name: "Default"
      user_domain_name: "Default"
    regions:
      - "central-1"
      - "central-2"
    cacert: ~/.config/openstack/rootCA.pem
    interface: "public"
    identity_api_version: 3

I have seen no equivalent to the --os-region-name option of the Python client, and the matching Env Var doesn't seem to work either.

Is this a limitation or am I doing something wrong? (probably the latter! :D)

Regards.

[gtema]

What is supported right now is that in your clouds.yaml you can specify region_name (on the same level as you do have regions right now).
regions in openstacksdk is only used to check the region validity and to return the first one when not specified. This is actually not like it was initially supposed to be used.
Anyway, right now you can have few dedicated clouds.yaml entries for different regions (using yaml anchors to reuse the auth data). And we can also add the --os-region-name parameter support.

[dmbuil]

Indeed, I also though of having several entries within the same clouds.yaml file, for simplicity, but I though it was a dirty workaround and that maybe I was missing something.

And we can also add the --os-region-name parameter support.

This would be lovely! This would align osc with the openstack CLI, which would make the adoption curve easier!