Horizon-geo-trust-display

OpenStack Horizon dashboard displays compute nodes, instances, and images available in an OpenStack cloud instance.

The goal here is to display whether the compute node has booted in a trusted manner and its geographical properties. We propose integrating in the UI the ability to provision geo tags. Likewise, for virtual machine instances, would like to display the geo of the machine it is running on. For images, would like to display any trust or geo constraints associated with the image.

For purposes of illustration, please refer to the images below captured from a proof of concept implementation developed at Intel (images courtesy Jerry Wheeler).

Possible Implementation




Column Header
Please suggest a column title. The place holder is Trust-Status. Tags or Properties may be more generic.

Geo Icon or String
Use a map icon with a hover-over behavior that provides location details.

or

Provide location-string such as country-string or city/state/country string with more details on hover-over.

or

location-string that is a link to a page with more details.