Let's associate a floating IP address with our instance1-dashboard instance in the logistics project. We will then attempt to ping the instance from our virtual appliance via its floating IP. Because we have the admin role, we will see how to assign a specific IP address via the admin-system panel group. Let's begin!
- See Figure 6.57. From the OpenStack overview page, select the Admin-System panel group.
- Select the Floating IPs panel.
- Select Allocate IP to Project.
Figure 6.57: Allocating a floating IP address from the Horizon dashboard
- See Figure 6.58. Pool (required): Select our previously created provider network, ...
