April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Although OpenStack services can be accessed using the command-line interface or REST API, using the web-based interface is much easier for end users. The OpenStack Horizon service provides a web-based interface for accessing the OpenStack services such as Keystone, Swift, NOVA, and so on. Users can use the web interface to perform various administrative activities such as launching an instance, creating networks, creating volumes, and so on. The web UI invokes OpenStack APIs to interact with other OpenStack services.
The following diagram shows how the OpenStack Horizon Dashboard Web Service interacts with other OpenStack components:
As shown in the diagram, Horizon stores the session information in ...