STEPS TO CREATE AN INSTANCE WITH HORIZON DASHBOARD
Step 1: Access and login into Horizon Dashboard
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Access URL Address in browser: http://192.168.50.12/horizon
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Login with Openstack user account
Step 2: Launch an instance
Open page Project → Compute → Instances and then click button Launch Instance
In tab Details, fill out the required fields
In tab Access & Security, select an imported keypair or import a new keypair to ssh to instance.
To import a new keypair:
- copy and paste in Public Key field the contents of the public key file in the machine which you want to ssh from.
(The public key file default is /home/<username>/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)
- fill out the keypair name
In tab Networking, selected network is your internal network.
Step 3: Associate Floating IP
Select Associate Floating IP from Actions Column of the instance
Click to (+) button
Select Pool as your external network to Allocate IP
Step 4: SSH to your instance
You must point your private key suitable with you keypair which you chossed in step 2
With ubuntu image, the command line is:
ssh -i <your_private_key> ubuntu@<your_instance_IP>