Using OpenStack Dashboard to launch instances
Launching instances is easily done using the OpenStack Dashboard. We will simply select our chosen image, choose the size of the instance, and then launch it.
Getting ready
Load a web browser, point it to our OpenStack Dashboard address at http://192.168.100.117/, and log in as a user in the default domain, such as the developer user, created in the Common OpenStack identity tasks recipe in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client with the cookbook4 password. The URL for our dashboard is same as the public load balancer IP as discussed in Chapter 1, Installing OpenStack with Ansible. If you need to find out at what URL your Horizon is, use public IP from the OpenStack catalog list as described in Chapter 3, Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service.
How to do it…
To launch an instance using the OpenStack Dashboard interface, carry out the following steps:
Navigate to the Instances tab in the Compute section:
Once there, you will see all the running instances:
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