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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

Launching an instance using the web interface


Now that we've booted an instance on the command line, let's take a look at doing the same thing in the web interface:

  1. Go ahead and log in to the web interface as the non-administrative user you created in Chapter 2, Identity Management.

  2. Under the Compute menu, select Instances and then click on the Launch Instance button.

  3. In the Launch Instance dialog, start by filling in a name for the instance, as shown in the following screenshot. Also, note that there are blue asterisks next to Source, Flavor, and Networks. These are the required sections of the dialog to visit:

  4. Click the Next button to get to the Source section of the dialog. There will be a + button next to the Fedora image you uploaded in Chapter 3, Image Management. Click that to select the Fedora image as the boot source for the instance, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Click the Next button to get to the Flavor section of the dialog. There will be a + button next to the available...