I have two accounts on Openshift platform. How can I setup my computer so that I can manage both of them with rhc? I cannot find any relevant option in the command line arguments.
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rhc command line tools come with the global option "-l, --rhlogin LOGIN". You have two options:
1) Use -l flag with every command to specify the login name OR
rhc app create <appname> <cartridge> [-l <login1/login2>]
2) Run "rhc setup -l LOGIN" between the sessions. Once done managing apps from one account you can end the session for it by running "rhc account logout".
rhc setup -l <login1> # First account's login
rhc app create <appname> <cartridge>
rhc logout
rhc setup -l <login2> # Second account's login
rhc app create <appname> <cartridge>
rhc logout
When you can "rhc setup" command, the username information gets stored in .openshift/express.conf file; hence the need to run it again when you want to switch the account.
HTH
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Quite old question, but I use yet another solution which seems to be more comfortable (at least for me) - the environment variable OPENSHIFT_CONFIG.
The OPENSHIFT_CONFIG environment variable can be used to override the OpenShift configuration name (by default "express"). When set the operations performed with rhc refers to ~/.openshift/${OPENSHIFT_CONFIG}.conf (instead of ~/.openshift/express.conf).
To switch to the another OpenShift account the following could be used (Bash):
export OPENSHIFT_CONFIG=thenewone
rhc apps //apps on the new account
...
unset OPENSHIFT_CONFIG
rhc apps //apps on the default account
Verified with rhc 1.37.1, but should work with any version released after May 2013.
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When you run the rhc setup command for the first time, the ~/.openshift/express.conf file is created, containing the settings for your initial server configuration. When you add another server, or run the rhc setup command again with the --server option, the ~/.openshift/servers.yml file is created, containing the settings for each server. You can edit this file to make any changes to the server configuration, and this takes precedence over the initial ~/.openshift/express.conf file.
rhc server use server.name.example.co
rhc server use Server_Nickname
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(In windows) run 2 rhc console commands and answer like <I did>:
>rhc setup -l [email protected]
use the server for OpenShift Online: openshift.redhat.com.
Enter the server hostname: |openshift.redhat.com|<Press Enter>
Password: *********<Press Enter>
Generate a token now? (yes|no) y<Press Enter>
Generating an authorization token for this client ... lasts about 1 month
Saving configuration to C:\Users\UserName.openshift\express.conf ... done Your private SSH key file should be set as readable only to yourself. Please
run 'chmod 600 C:\Users\UserName.ssh\id_rsa'
Your client tools are now configured.
>chmod 600 C:\Users\UserName.ssh\id_rsa
Than you can use console commands for a long time with generated token for your openshift login: [email protected]
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You can configure multiple accounts using "server add" command and then you can provide the server nickname in all subsequent commands using --server option.
For example,
rhc server add -l <first_account> --nickname srv1 <first-server>
rhc server add -l <second_account> --nickname srv2 <second-server>
You may add options like -p, --use-authorised-tokens to suppress the prompts for password and token-generation. Also --insecured if required
rhc server use srv1
rhc server use srv2
Commands above perform some sort of initialisation. Once two steps above are done you are ready to use your multiple accounts.
Now in your rhc commands you need to specify which server should be used. For example,
rhc app-show -n <domain> <app> --server srv1
Command above will show details of app in srv1 For srv2 you can run
rhc app-show -n <domain> <app> --server srv2
