openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide/section_dashboard_stacks.xml
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Made updates to 'Launch a stack' using dashboard section and included
a procedure for deleting a stack.

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xml:id="dashboard_stacks">
<title>Launch and manage stacks</title>
<para>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.</para>
<para>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.</para>
<section xml:id="dashboard_create_stacks">
<title>Launch a stack</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Log in to the OpenStack dashboard, choose a project,
and, click the <guibutton>Stacks</guibutton> in the <guilabel>Orchestration</guilabel> category.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click <guibutton>Launch Stack</guibutton> button.</para>
<para>A <guilabel>Select Template</guilabel> window opens.</para>
</step>
<step><para>Choose between the template source options from the dropdown list.</para>
<para>Your options are URL, File or Direct Input.</para>
</step>
<step><para>Enter the URL, browse to the file location or directly include the template based on your selection in the previous step.</para>
<para>The <guilabel>Launch Stack</guilabel> window opens.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>In the <guilabel>Launch Stack</guilabel> window, specify the following
values.</para>
<informaltable rules="all" width="75%">
<col width="30%"/>
<col width="70%"/>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Stack
Name</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>A name to identify the stack.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Creation Timeout (minutes)</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Creation Timeout in minutes.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Rollback On Failure</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Check this option if you want Heat to rollback on failure.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Password for user "demo"</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Password for the user logged in.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>DBUsername</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Database user name.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>LinuxDistribution</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Linux Distribution used in the stacks.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>DBRootPassword</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Database root password.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>KeyName</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Name of the keypair.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>DBName</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Database name.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>DBPassword</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Database password.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>InstanceType</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Flavor of the instance.</para></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</informaltable>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click <guilabel>Launch</guilabel> to create a stack.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>The dashboard shows the stack in the
<guilabel>Stacks</guilabel> category.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
<para>Once the stack is created, you can click on the stack name to see the following stack details:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Topology</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Shows the topology of the stack created.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Overview</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Lists the parameters and details of the stack under the following headings, Info, Status, Outputs, Stack Paramaters and Launch Parameters.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Resources</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Lists the resources used by the stack.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Events</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Lists the events related to the stack.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>
<section xml:id="dashboard_delete_stacks">
<title>Delete stacks</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Log in to the OpenStack dashboard.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>On the <guilabel>Project</guilabel> tab, click the <guilabel>Stacks</guilabel> category.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Select the stack that you want to delete.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click <guibutton>Delete Stack</guibutton>.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>In the <guilabel>Confirm Delete Stack</guilabel> window,
click <guibutton>Delete Stack</guibutton> to confirm the
deletion. You cannot undo this action.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
</section>