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.
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
.
To add a new tenant to our OpenStack environment, carry out the following steps:
horizon
as our tenant name and enter a description:We will be presented with the list of tenants that are now available and a message saying that the horizon
tenant was created successfully.
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.