To verify that the Orchestration service is installed and configured correctly, make sure that your credentials are set up correctly in the demo-openrc.sh file. Source the file, as follows: $ source demo-openrc.sh The Orchestration Module uses templates to describe stacks. To learn about the template languages, see the Template Guide in the Heat developer documentation. Create a test template in the test-stack.yml file with the following content: Use the heat stack-create command to create a stack from this template: $ NET_ID=$(nova net-list | awk '/ demo-net / { print $2 }') $ heat stack-create -f test-stack.yml \ -P "ImageID=cirros-0.3.2-x86_64;NetID=$NET_ID" testStack +--------------------------------------+------------+--------------------+----------------------+ | id | stack_name | stack_status | creation_time | +--------------------------------------+------------+--------------------+----------------------+ | 477d96b4-d547-4069-938d-32ee990834af | testStack | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | 2014-04-06T15:11:01Z | +--------------------------------------+------------+--------------------+----------------------+ Verify that the stack was created successfully with the heat stack-list command: $ heat stack-list +--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | id | stack_name | stack_status | creation_time | +--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | 477d96b4-d547-4069-938d-32ee990834af | testStack | CREATE_COMPLETE | 2014-04-06T15:11:01Z | +--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+----------------------+