The OpenStack Dashboard#

After login, you can see the Overview tab of Horizon, the OpenStack Dashboard.

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This chapter briefly describes the different components of the dashboard. You can read the official documentation at docs.openstack.org.

The VSC cloud uses a customized dashboard. Some features mentioned in the official OpenStack documentation were intentionally removed, please contact if you need access to one of these disabled features.

Project tab#

Resources (instances, data volumes, networks, …) in OpenStack are organized into different projects, and every user is a member of one or more projects. Every project member has full access to all of the project’s resources.

From the Project tab, you can access the following categories:

API Access View API endpoints.

Compute

  • Overview: View reports for the project.

  • Instances: View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or reboot instances, or connect to them through VNC.

  • Images: View images and instance snapshots created by project users, plus any images that are publicly available. Create, edit, and delete images, and launch instances from images and snapshots.

  • Key Pairs: View, create, edit, import, and delete key pairs.

  • Server Groups: Server groups provide a mechanism to group servers according to certain policy.

Volumes

  • Volumes: View, create, edit, and delete volumes.

  • Snapshots: View, create, edit, and delete volume snapshots.

Network

  • Networks: Create and manage public and private networks.

  • Security Groups: View, create, edit, and delete security groups and security group rules..

  • Floating IPs: Allocate an IP address to or release it from a project

Orchestration

  • Stacks: Use the REST API to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications.

  • Resource types: Show a list of all the supported resource types for HOT templates.

  • Template versions: The version of a Heat template specifies the format of the template and also the corresponding features that will be validated and supported.

  • Template generator: A graphical interface to build and edit templates.

Shares

  • Shares: Create and manage share.

Identity tab#

From the Identity tab, you can access the following categories:

Projects

View, create, assign users to, remove users from, and delete projects.

Users

View, create, enable, disable, and delete users.

Application Credentials

With application credentials, a user can grant applications limited access to their cloud resources.