Administration Guide

The OpenStack Dashboard is a web-based interface that allows you to manage OpenStack resources and services. The Dashboard allows you to interact with the OpenStack Compute cloud controller using the OpenStack APIs. For more information about installing and configuring the Dashboard, see the Installation Guide for your operating system.

• Customize and configure the Dashboard
  • Customize the Dashboard
  • Configure the Dashboard
• Set up session storage for the Dashboard
  • Local memory cache
  • Cached database
  • Cookies
• Create and manage images
  • Create images
  • Update images
  • Delete images
• Create and manage roles
  • Create a role
  • Edit a role
  • Delete a role
• Manage projects and users
  • Add a new project
  • Delete a project
  • Update a project
  • Add a new user
  • Delete a new user
  • Update a user
• Manage instances
  • Create instance snapshots
  • Control the state of an instance
  • Track usage
• Manage flavors
  • Create flavors
  • Update flavors
  • Update Metadata
  • Delete flavors
• Manage volumes and volume types
  • Create a volume type
  • Create an encrypted volume type
  • Delete volume types
  • Delete volumes
• View and manage quotas
  • View default project quotas
  • Update project quotas
• View services information
• Create and manage host aggregates
  • To create a host aggregate
  • To manage host aggregates

• To deploy the dashboard, see the Installation Guide.

• To launch instances with the dashboard as an end user, see the Launch and manage instances in the OpenStack End User Guide.

• To create and manage ports, see the Create and manage networks section of the OpenStack End User Guide.