OpenStack Dashboard is a lot more than just an interface to our instances. It allows an administrator to configure environments, users, and projects. Adding new projects 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://192.168.100.117/, and log in as a user in the default domain, such as the developer user, created in the Common OpenStack identity tasks recipe in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client with the cookbook4 password. The URL for our dashboard is same as the public load balancer IP as discussed in Chapter 1, Installing OpenStack with Ansible. If you need to find out at what URL your Horizon is, use public IP from the OpenStack catalog list as described in Chapter 3, Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service.
To add a new project to our OpenStack environment, carry out the following steps:
- After we login as a user with admin privileges, we get more menu options under the Identity tab. One of them is a Projects option, as shown in the following screenshot:
- To manage projects, we click on the Projects option listed under the Identity tab. This will list the available projects in our environment, as shown in the following screenshot:
- To create a new project, click on the Create Project button.
- Next, we will be presented with a form that asks for the name of the project and a description. Enter
horizonas our project name, and enter a description:
- We will enable the project by selecting the Enabled checkbox, and then click on the Create Project button.
- We will be presented with the list of projects that are now available and a message saying that the
horizonproject was created successfully.
OpenStack Dashboard is a feature-rich interface that complements the command-line options available to you when managing our OpenStack environment. This means that we can simply create a project to which users can belong using OpenStack Dashboard. When creating a new project, we need to be logged in as a user with admin privileges to get access to the full project management interface.