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OpenStack Essentials

By : Dan Radez
Book Image

OpenStack Essentials

By: Dan Radez

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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 3, Identity Management.

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

  3. In the Launch Instance dialog, fill in a name for the instance, choose a flavor, and select Boot from image as the boot source, as shown in the following screenshot.

  4. Select the image you uploaded in Chapter 4, Image Management.

  5. Select the next tab, Access & Security. This view should already be filled in for you. This is the view in which you can select a different SSH key pair and select a combination of security groups for the instance. The following screenshot is a view of the Access & Security tab:

  6. Next, select the Networking tab. In this view, if you have only one tenant network defined, it will be automatically added...