OpenStack: Building a Cloud Environment

Requesting services

Let's first take a look at how John tries to request cloud services. He logs into the Horizon portal using his credentials that we created.

When he logs in, he will see a screen and the TestingCloud tenant, as this is the only one he is associated with. Also, he will only see the project section as he is only a member of the project. He is also presented with the dashboard showing the limits of his project and what has already been consumed:

Now, in order to request for services, he needs to go into the corresponding panel and request for them.

Before this is done, let's understand some base constructs of access and security that ...