The Horizon dashboard service provides a web-based graphical user interface for OpenStack. This allows users to consume the OpenStack services. Administrators can access the overall view of the size and state of the OpenStack Cloud. Administrators can also access, manage, and provision OpenStack compute, storage, networking, and other services and resources that OpenStack provides.
Horizon dashboard can be used as a self-service portal for OpenStack Cloud users to provision OpenStack resources within the limits and quotas set by the Cloud administrators.
OpenStack dashboard is designed to be extensible. It is easy to plug in and expose third-party products and services within the dashboard, such as billing, monitoring, and additional management tools. The dashboard can also be configured with custom branding for service providers and other vendors who want to make use of it.
The OpenStack Horizon dashboard service interacts with other services' APIs to retrieve data. To create...