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diff --git a/docs/release/userguide/openstack.rst b/docs/release/userguide/openstack.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..929d2ba42 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release/userguide/openstack.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. + +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +============================ +Danube OpenStack User Guide +============================ + +OpenStack is a cloud operating system developed and released by the +`OpenStack project <https://www.openstack.org>`_. OpenStack is used in OPNFV +for controlling pools of compute, storage, and networking resources in a Pharos +compliant infrastructure. + +OpenStack is used in Danube to manage tenants (known in OpenStack as +projects),users, services, images, flavours, and quotas across the Pharos +infrastructure.The OpenStack interface provides the primary interface for an +operational Danube deployment and it is from the "horizon console" that an +OPNFV user will perform the majority of administrative and operational +activities on the deployment. + +OpenStack references +-------------------- + +The `OpenStack user guide <http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide>`_ provides +details and descriptions of how to configure and interact with the OpenStack +deployment.This guide can be used by lab engineers and operators to tune the +OpenStack deployment to your liking. + +Once you have configured OpenStack to your purposes, or the Danube +deployment meets your needs as deployed, an operator, or administrator, will +find the best guidance for working with OpenStack in the +`OpenStack administration guide <http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide-admin>`_. + +Connecting to the OpenStack instance +------------------------------------ + +Once familiar with the basic of working with OpenStack you will want to connect +to the OpenStack instance via the Horizon Console. The Horizon console provide +a Web based GUI that will allow you operate the deployment. +To do this you should open a browser on the JumpHost to the following address +and enter the username and password: + + + http://{Controller-VIP}:80/index.html> + username: admin + password: admin + +Other methods of interacting with and configuring OpenStack,, like the REST API +and CLI are also available in the Danube deployment, see the +`OpenStack administration guide <http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide-admin>`_ +for more information on using those interfaces. |