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How to install the Openstack Horizon Dashboard

This brief tutorial from LearnIT Guide shows you how to get started.

October 6, 2017
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Horizon is one of the most popular ways to interact with OpenStack.

LearnIT Guide recently published a tutorial (text based and the 12-minute video below) of how to set up Openstack’s Dashboard. Horizon, provides a web-based user interface to OpenStack services including Nova, Swift, Keystone. The tutorial requires Centos 7.1 6-4 bit, OpenStack Liberty repositories and packages as well as an installed and configured MariaDB.

The OpenStack Foundation also provides this Quick Start Guide to Horizon, tested for Horizon on Ubuntu (16.04-64) and RPM-based (RHEL 7.x) distributions. Also, if you’re looking for other beginner resources — documentation, setting up a dev environment — check out the Foundation’s “How to get started” section.

LearnIT Guide also offers other free tutorials on OpenStack including how to configure Neutron and Nova.

Superuser is always looking for community resources and how-tos, get in touch: editorATopenstack.org

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