Enabling domains in the OpenStack dashboard

If you are using multiple domains in your OpenStack environment, you will need to enable them in the OpenStack dashboard (Horizon) as well. To do so, the OPENSTACK_KEYSTONE_MULTIDOMAIN_SUPPORT variable in Horizon settings needs to be set to True. In this example, we will show you how to do so using OpenStack Ansible playbook.

Getting ready

We are going to use Ansible to update Horizon settings. Make sure that you have access to your openstack-ansible deployment host.

How to do it…

To enable multidomain support in the OpenStack dashboard, we will update one horizon variable, OPENSTACK_KEYSTONE_MULTIDOMAIN_SUPPORT in local_settings.py using the openstack-ansible deployment tool. First, you will need to connect to your openstack-ansible deployment host. Once connected, execute the following steps:

1. Edit the /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml file to add the following line:

   horizon_keystone_multidomain_support: True
   

2. Deploy Horizon with the openstack...