Using OpenStack Dashboard to add new tenants – projects

OpenStack Dashboard is a lot more than just an interface to our instances. It allows an administrator to configure environments, users, and tenants.

Tenants are known as projects within the OpenStack Dashboard. Adding new tenants that users can be members of is achieved quite simply in OpenStack Dashboard.

Getting ready

Load a web browser, point it to our OpenStack Dashboard address at http://192.168.100.200/, and log in as a user, such as the admin user created in the Adding users to Keystone recipe of Chapter 1, Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service, with the password openstack.

How to do it...

To add a new tenant to our OpenStack environment, carry out the following steps:

  1. After we login as a user with admin privileges, we get more menu options under the Identity tab. One of them is the Projects option:
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  2. To manage tenants, we click on the Projects option listed under Identity. This will list the available tenants in our environment, as shown in the following screenshot:
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  3. To create a new tenant, click on the Create Project button.
  4. Next, we are presented with a form that asks for the name of the tenant and a description. Enter horizon as our tenant name and enter a description:
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  5. We enable the tenant by selecting the Enabled checkbox, and then click on the Create Project button.

    We will be presented with the list of tenants that are now available and a message saying that the horizon tenant was created successfully.

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How it works...

OpenStack Dashboard is a feature-rich interface that complements the command-line options available to you when managing your OpenStack environment. This means we can simply create a tenant (Ubuntu's interface refers to this as a project) to which users can belong using OpenStack Dashboard. When creating new tenants, we need to be logged in as a user with admin privileges to get access to the full tenant management interface.

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