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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By : Dan Radez
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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By: Dan Radez

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a widely popular platform for cloud computing. Applications that are built for this platform are resilient to failure and convenient to scale. This book, an update to our extremely popular OpenStack Essentials (published in May 2015) will help you master not only the essential bits, but will also examine the new features of the latest OpenStack release - Mitaka; showcasing how to put them to work straight away. This book begins with the installation and demonstration of the architecture. This book will tech you the core 8 topics of OpenStack. They are Keystone for Identity Management, Glance for Image management, Neutron for network management, Nova for instance management, Cinder for Block storage, Swift for Object storage, Ceilometer for Telemetry and Heat for Orchestration. Further more you will learn about launching and configuring Docker containers and also about scaling them horizontally. You will also learn about monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Web interface management


The web interface lets you create the network and subnet in the same dialog. Perform the following steps to obtain a network and a router:

  1. Log in as your non-administrative user, select the Network menu, select the Networks submenu, and click on the Create Network button in the top-right corner, as shown here:

  2. After you have filled in the network name, go to the next dialog screen and fill in the subnet information, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. In the final dialog box, add the DNS entries, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. When you've completed filling in the dialog, you'll end up with a network and a subnet that's associated with the network, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Next, create the router. Select Routers from the Network menu, and click on Create Router in the top-right corner of the page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. Once you've filled in the router name, click on Create Router, as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. Next, click on...