From 6314b61c0809f958fcedc2192bb069c725fe7766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepti Navale Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:24:56 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Included 'Launch a stack' using dashboard procedure New section 'Launch a stack' in the Dashboard chapter of User guide Change-Id: I8212093d25982eede1c00b565f681f9eff898742 --- doc/user-guide/ch_dashboard.xml | 2 + doc/user-guide/section_dashboard_stacks.xml | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/user-guide/section_dashboard_stacks.xml diff --git a/doc/user-guide/ch_dashboard.xml b/doc/user-guide/ch_dashboard.xml index d450ab3230..ea66813eaa 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/ch_dashboard.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/ch_dashboard.xml @@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ + + diff --git a/doc/user-guide/section_dashboard_stacks.xml b/doc/user-guide/section_dashboard_stacks.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..05eb06ab0e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user-guide/section_dashboard_stacks.xml @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ + + + + + +]> +
+ Launch a stack + + Heat is a service used to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using the AWS CloudFormation template format, through both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API. + The purpose of Heat is to provide a template based orchestration for describing a cloud application by executing appropriate OpenStack API calls to generate running cloud applications, integrate other core components of OpenStack into a one-file template system. The templates allow creation of most OpenStack resource types such as instances, floating ips, volumes, security groups, users, etc. + + Launch a stack + + Log in to the OpenStack dashboard, choose a project, + and, click the Stacks in the Orchestration category. + + + Click Launch Stack button. + A Select Template window opens. + + Choose between the template source options from the dropdown list. + Your options are URL, File or Direct Input. + + Enter the URL, browse to the file location or directly include the template based on your selection in the previous step. + The Launch Stack window opens. + + + In the Launch Stack window, specify the following + values. + + + + + + Stack + Name + A name to identify the stack. + + + Creation Timeout (minutes) + Creation Timeout in minutes. + + + Rollback On Failure + Check this option if you want Heat to rollback on failure. + + + Password for user "demo" + Password for the user logged in. + + + DBUsername + Database user name. + + + LinuxDistribution + Linux Distribution used in the stacks. + + + DBRootPassword + Database root password. + + + KeyName + Name of the keypair. + + + DBName + Database name. + + + DBPassword + Database password. + + + InstanceType + Flavor of the instance. + + + + + + Click Launch to create a + stack. + + + The dashboard shows the stack in the + Stacks category. + + + Once the stack is created, you can click on the stack name to see the following stack details, Topology, Overview, Resources and Events. +