How make API calls to OpenStack installed on local machine from outside the network?

Question

I installed OpenStack on my local Ubuntu machine and can access the dashboard using a local IP address. I want to get the list of files on the storage from an external Spring Boot application.

I looked into the documentation to authenticate the requests but what should be my REST endpoint. I cannot access 10.0.0.x from outside the network so how do I expose my local OpenStack to accept API calls from outside the local network?

Answer 1

It's obviously there is not way to achieve that from what you describe -- I cannot access 10.0.0.x from outside the network.

I think you should have a NGINX Reverse Proxy server which could connect to the private network(10.0.0.x) and the public network(outside the network).