Launching our first cloud instance
Now that we have a running OpenStack Compute environment and a machine image to use, it’s now time to spin up our first cloud instance! Let’s see how we can use the information from the nova image-list and nova flavor-list commands to reference this on the command line to launch the instance that we want.
Getting ready
The following steps are to be carried out on our network node under the user that has access to our OpenStack Compute credentials (as created in the Installation of command-line tools on network recipe).
Ensure you are logged in to the network node and that it has Internet access to allow us to install the required packages in our environment for running OVS and Neutron. If you created this node with ...
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