Add the dashboard The OpenStack dashboard, also known as Horizon, is a Web interface that enables cloud administrators and users to manage various OpenStack resources and services. The dashboard enables web-based interactions with the OpenStack Compute cloud controller through the OpenStack APIs. Horizon enables you to customize the brand of the dashboard. Horizon provides a set of core classes and reusable templates and tools. This example deployment uses an Apache web server.
Next steps Your OpenStack environment now includes the dashboard. You can launch an instance or add more services to your environment in the following chapters. After you install and configure the dashboard, you can complete the following tasks: Customize your dashboard. See section Customize the dashboard in the OpenStack Cloud Administrator Guide for information on setting up colors, logos, and site titles. Set up session storage. See section Set up session storage for the dashboard in the OpenStack Cloud Administrator Guide for information on user session data.