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List All Flavors

Lists all available flavors in the OpenStack environment.

$
Terminal
openstack flavor list

When To Use

When evaluating compute resource types for instance provisioning

Pro Tip

Consider filtering results using '--quiet' for concise output in scripts.

Anatomy of Output

Understanding the result

+----+-----------+-----------+------+-----------+-------------+----------+ Header Row

Defines the structure of output columns.

| ID | Name | RAM | Disk | VCPUs | Is Public | Extra | Flavors Information

Displays available flavors with relevant specifications.

Power User Variants

Optimized versions

openstack flavor list --quiet

Lists all flavors with minimal output.

openstack flavor list -f json

Displays flavor list in JSON format.

Troubleshooting

Common pitfalls

Unable to retrieve flavors

Solution: Check OpenStack credentials and access permissions.

authentication failed

Solution: Verify the authentication method used for OpenStack API.

inadequate privileges

Solution: Ensure sufficient role or permissions in OpenStack.

Command Breakdown

What each part is doing

openstack
Base Command
The executable that performs this operation. Here it runs Openstack before the shell applies any redirect operators.

Alternative Approaches

Comparable commands in other tools

Alternative cloud infrastructure tools for the same job.