Clearing the Keystone Environment

If you spend a lot of time switching between different cloud, different users, or even different projects for the same user when working with openstack, you’ve come across the problem where one environment variable from an old sourceing pollutes the current environment.  I’ve been hit by that enough times that I wrote a small script to clear the environment.

I call it clear_os_env

unset OS_AUTH_TYPE
unset OS_AUTH_URL
unset OS_CACERT
unset OS_COMPUTE_API_VERSION
unset OS_DEFAULT_DOMAIN
unset OS_DOMAIN_ID
unset OS_DOMAIN_NAME
unset OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION
unset OS_IDENTITY_PROVIDER
unset OS_IDENTITY_PROVIDER_URL
unset OS_IMAGE_API_VERSION
unset OS_NETWORK_API_VERSION
unset OS_OBJECT_API_VERSION
unset OS_PASSWORD
unset OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID
unset OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME
unset OS_PROJECT_ID
unset OS_PROJECT_NAME
unset OS_REGION_NAME
unset OS_SERVICE_ENDPOINT
unset OS_SERVICE_PROVIDER_ENDPOINT
unset OS_SERVICE_TOKEN
unset OS_TENANT_ID
unset OS_TENANT_NAME
unset OS_TOKEN
unset OS_TRUST_ID
unset OS_URL
unset OS_USERNAME
unset OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID
unset OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME
unset OS_USER_ID
unset OS_USER_ID
unset OS_VOLUME_API_VERSION

Source this prior to sourcing any keystone.rc file, and you should have cleared out the old variables, regardless of how vigilant the new source file writer was in clearing old variables. THis includes some old variables that should no longer be used, like OS_SERVICE_TOKEN

3 thoughts on “Clearing the Keystone Environment

  1. Or we could just do something like:
    env | grep OS_ | awk -F “=” ‘{print $1}’ | xargs unset

  2. this should also work:
    unset `env | awk -F= ‘/OS_/ {print $1}’ | xargs`

  3. I was set this version, too.

    key in `set | grep -E ‘^OS_’` ; do unset $key ; done

    IN general, if you are piping grep to awk, you should mve the grep into the awk code, as in stevemar’s version

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