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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="cli_launch_instances">
<title wordsize="20">Launch instances</title>
<para>Instances are virtual machines that run inside the
cloud.</para>
<para>Before you can launch an instance, gather the following
parameters:</para>
<itemizedlist xml:id="instance_parameters">
<listitem>
<para>The <guilabel>instance source</guilabel>, which is
an image or snapshot. Alternatively, you can boot from
a volume, which is block storage, to which you've
copied an image or snapshot.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <guilabel>image</guilabel> or
<guilabel>snapshot</guilabel>, which represents
the operating system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A <guilabel>name</guilabel> for your instance.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <emphasis role="bold">flavor</emphasis> for your
instance, which defines the compute, memory, and
storage capacity of nova computing instances. A flavor
is an available hardware configuration for a server.
It defines the "size" of a virtual server that can be
launched.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>User Data</literal> is a special key in the
metadata service that holds a file that cloud-aware
applications in the guest instance can access. For
example. the <link
xlink:href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit"
>cloudinit</link> system is an open-source package
from Ubuntu that is available on various Linux
distributions including Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE
and that handles early initialization of a cloud
instance that uses <literal>user
data</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Access and security credentials, which include one
or both of the following credentials:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>A <emphasis role="bold">keypair</emphasis>
for your instance, which are SSH credentials
that are injected into images when they are
launched. For this to work, the image must
contain the <literal>cloud-init</literal>
package. Create at least one keypair for each
project. If you already have generated a
keypair with an external tool, you can import
it into OpenStack. You can use the keypair for
multiple instances that belong to that
project.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A <emphasis role="bold">security
group</emphasis>, which defines which
incoming network traffic is forwarded to
instances. Security groups hold a set of
firewall policies, known as <emphasis
role="italic">security group
rules</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If needed, you can assign a <emphasis role="bold"
>floating (public) IP address</emphasis> to a
running instance and attach a block storage device, or
volume, for persistent storage.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>After you gather the parameters you need to launch an
instance, you can launch it from an <link
xlink:href="launch_from_image">image</link> or a <link
xlink:href="boot_from_volume">volume</link>.</para>
<para>You can launch an instance directly from one of the
available OpenStack images or from an image that you have
copied to a persistent volume. The OpenStack Image Service
provides a pool of images that are accessible to members of
different projects.</para>
<?hard-pagebreak?>
<section xml:id="gather_parms">
<title wordsize="20">Gather parameters to launch an
instance</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>On a shell, source the OpenStack RC file. See
<xref linkend="cli_openrc"/>.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>List the available flavors:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova flavor-list</userinput></screen>
<screen><?db-font-size 55%?><computeroutput>+----+-----------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| ID | Name | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public |
+----+-----------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| 1 | m1.tiny | 512 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True |
| 2 | m1.small | 2048 | 20 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True |
| 3 | m1.medium | 4096 | 40 | 0 | | 2 | 1.0 | True |
| 4 | m1.large | 8192 | 80 | 0 | | 4 | 1.0 | True |
| 42 | m1.nano | 64 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True |
| 5 | m1.xlarge | 16384 | 160 | 0 | | 8 | 1.0 | True |
| 84 | m1.micro | 128 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True |
+----+-----------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+</computeroutput></screen>
<para>Note the ID of the flavor that you want to use
for your instance.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>List the available images:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova image-list</userinput></screen>
<screen><?db-font-size 55%?><computeroutput>+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+--------+
| ID | Name | Status | Server |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+--------+
| 397e713c-b95b-4186-ad46-6126863ea0a9 | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec | ACTIVE | |
| df430cc2-3406-4061-b635-a51c16e488ac | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-kernel | ACTIVE | |
| 3cf852bd-2332-48f4-9ae4-7d926d50945e | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-ramdisk | ACTIVE | |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+--------+</computeroutput></screen>
<para>You can also filter the image list by using grep
to find a specific image, like this:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova image-list | grep 'kernel'</userinput></screen>
<screen><?db-font-size 55%?><computeroutput>| df430cc2-3406-4061-b635-a51c16e488ac | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-kernel | ACTIVE | |</computeroutput></screen>
<para>Note the ID of the image that you want to boot
your instance from.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>List the available security groups:</para>
<note>
<para>If you are an admin user, specify the
<literal>--all-tenants</literal> parameter
to list groups for all tenants.</para>
</note>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova secgroup-list --all-tenants</userinput></screen>
<screen><?db-font-size 65%?><computeroutput>+----+---------+-------------+----------------------------------+
| Id | Name | Description | Tenant_ID |
+----+---------+-------------+----------------------------------+
| 2 | default | default | 66265572db174a7aa66eba661f58eb9e |
| 1 | default | default | b70d90d65e464582b6b2161cf3603ced |
+----+---------+-------------+----------------------------------+</computeroutput></screen>
<para>If you have not created any security groups, you
can assign the instance to only the default
security group.</para>
<para>You can also list rules for a specified security
group:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova secgroup-list-rules default</userinput> </screen>
<para>This example modifies the default security group
to allow HTTP traffic on the instance by
permitting TCP traffic on Port 80.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>List the available keypairs.</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova keypair-list</userinput></screen>
<para>Note the name of the keypair that you use for
SSH access.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
<?hard-pagebreak?>
<section xml:id="launch_from_image">
<title wordsize="20">Launch an instance from an image</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Now you have all parameters required to launch
an instance, run the following command and specify
the server name, flavor ID, and image ID.
Optionally, you can provide a key name for access
control and security group for security. You can
also include metadata key and value pairs. For
example you can add a description for your server
by providing the <parameter>--meta description="My
Server"</parameter> parameter.</para>
<para>You can pass user data in a local file at
instance launch by using the flag
<parameter>--user-data
<replaceable>USER-DATA-FILE</replaceable></parameter>
parameter.</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova boot --flavor <replaceable>FLAVOR_ID</replaceable> --image <replaceable>IMAGE_ID</replaceable> --key_name <replaceable>KEY_NAME</replaceable> \
--user-data mydata.file --security_group <replaceable>SEC_GROUP NAME_FOR_INSTANCE</replaceable> \
--meta <replaceable>KEY=VALUE</replaceable> --meta <replaceable>KEY=VALUE</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>Depending on the parameters that you provide,
the command returns a list of server
properties.</para>
<para>A status of <literal>BUILD</literal> indicates
that the instance has started, but is not yet
online.</para>
<para>A status of <literal>ACTIVE</literal> indicates
that the instance is active.</para>
<screen><?db-font-size 50%?><computeroutput>+-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| OS-EXT-STS:task_state | scheduling |
| image | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec |
| OS-EXT-STS:vm_state | building |
| OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name | instance-00000002 |
| flavor | m1.small |
| id | b3cdc6c0-85a7-4904-ae85-71918f734048 |
| security_groups | [{u'name': u'default'}] |
| user_id | 376744b5910b4b4da7d8e6cb483b06a8 |
| OS-DCF:diskConfig | MANUAL |
| accessIPv4 | |
| accessIPv6 | |
| progress | 0 |
| OS-EXT-STS:power_state | 0 |
| OS-EXT-AZ:availability_zone | nova |
| config_drive | |
| status | BUILD |
| updated | 2013-07-16T16:25:34Z |
| hostId | |
| OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:host | None |
| key_name | None |
| OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:hypervisor_hostname | None |
| name | myCirrosServer |
| adminPass | tVs5pL8HcPGw |
| tenant_id | 66265572db174a7aa66eba661f58eb9e |
| created | 2013-07-16T16:25:34Z |
| metadata | {} |
+-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------</computeroutput></screen>
<para>Copy the server ID value from the
<literal>id</literal> field in the output. You
use this ID to get details for or delete your
server.</para>
<para>Copy the administrative password value from the
<literal>adminPass</literal> field. You use
this value to log into your server.</para>
<note>
<para>Arbitrary local files can also be placed
into the instance file system at creation time
using the <literal>--file
&lt;dst-path=src-path&gt;</literal>
option. You may store up to 5 files. For
example if you have a special authorized_keys
file named
<filename>special_authorized_keysfile</filename>
that you want to put on the instance rather
than using the regular ssh key injection, you
can use the following
command:<screen> <prompt>$</prompt> <userinput><?db-font-size 75%?>nova boot --image ubuntu-cloudimage --flavor 1 \
--file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys=special_authorized_keysfile</userinput></screen></para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>Check if the instance is online:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput><?db-font-size 75%?>nova list</userinput></screen>
<para>The list shows the ID, name, status, and private
(and if assigned, public) IP addresses for all
instances in the project that you belong
to:</para>
<screen><?db-font-size 50%?><computeroutput>+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------+------------+-------------+------------------+
| ID | Name | Status | Task State | Power State | Networks |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------+------------+-------------+------------------+
| 84c6e57d-a6b1-44b6-81eb-fcb36afd31b5 | myCirrosServer | ACTIVE | None | Running | private=10.0.0.3 |
| 8a99547e-7385-4ad1-ae50-4ecfaaad5f42 | myInstanceFromVolume | ACTIVE | None | Running | private=10.0.0.4 |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------+------------+-------------+------------------+</computeroutput></screen>
<para>If the status for the instance is ACTIVE, the
instance is online.</para>
<para>To view the available options for the
<command>nova list</command> command, run the
following command:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput><?db-font-size 75%?>nova help list</userinput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>If you did not provide a keypair, security
groups, or rules, you can only access the instance
from inside the cloud through VNC. Even pinging
the instance is not possible.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
<?hard-pagebreak?>
<xi:include href="section_nova_boot_from_volume.xml"/>
</section>