Horizon dashboard

Creating instances via the Horizon dashboard is easy. See Figure 5.10.

Figure 5.10: Launching an instance from the Horizon dashboard
  1. From the OpenStack overview page, scope yourself to the human-resources project by selecting the top dropdown. When we create the instance, it will be owned by the human-resources project.
  2. Select the Instances panel from the Project-Compute panel group. You should see two instances in the Shutoff state. These two instances are owned by the human-resources project. We will return to these in a bit.
  3. Select Launch Instance.
  4. Details:
    • Instance Name (required): The name of your instance. You ...

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