OpenStack End User Guide¶
Abstract¶
OpenStack is an open-source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. A series of interrelated projects deliver a cloud infrastructure solution. This guide shows OpenStack end users how to create and manage resources in an OpenStack cloud with the OpenStack dashboard and OpenStack client commands.
This guide documents the OpenStack Newton release.
Contents¶
- Conventions
- How can I use an OpenStack cloud?
- OpenStack dashboard
- Log in to the dashboard
- Upload and manage images
- Configure access and security for instances
- Launch and manage instances
- Create and manage networks
- Create and manage object containers
- Create and manage volumes
- Create and manage shares
- Launch and manage stacks
- Create and manage databases
- View and manage load balancers v2
- OpenStack command-line clients
- Command-line client overview
- Install the OpenStack command-line clients
- Discover the version number for a client
- Set environment variables using the OpenStack RC file
- Manage images
- Manage images using cURL
- Manage volumes
- Manage shares
- Configure access and security for instances
- Launch instances
- Manage instances and hosts
- Provide user data to instances
- Use snapshots to migrate instances
- Store metadata on a configuration drive
- Create and manage networks
- Manage objects and containers
- Create and manage stacks
- Measure cloud resources
- Create and manage databases
- OpenStack Python SDK
- HOT Guide
- OpenStack command-line interface cheat sheet
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