Dashboard is a web interface that helps administrators and users manage and access OpenStack services. It uses the OpenStack API for providing these services. In this chapter, we will use the Apache server for deployment.
We need to take care of some prerequisites before installing the dashboard as part of our OpenStack setup. Make sure the following requirements are met:
OpenStack Compute is already installed and the Identity service is enabled
The user for Identity service has sudo access enabled
Python version 2.6 or 2.7 is installed, and it should support Django