Heat resources

Resources are mandatory and are a reference to any OpenStack resources you want to create. OpenStack resources can be anything from Nova virtual machine instances to Neutron security groups. Refer to Figure 9.3. You can get a complete list of compatible resources on the Horizon dashboard by navigating to the Resource Types panel from the Project-Orchestration panel group.

Figure 9.3: A list of available Heat resources on the Horizon dashboard

Backward compatibility with AWS

You may have noticed that some of the Heat resources have a prefix AWS::. These resources are used to make CloudFormation templates compatible with OpenStack Heat. As you know, AWS and OpenStack have many different features so I do not recommend...