OpenStack Dashboard ("Horizon")

What is Horizon ?

Horizon is the canonical implementation of Openstack’s Dashboard, which provides a web based user interface to OpenStack services including Nova, Swift, Keystone, etc. Please see Introducing Horizon for a thorough look at what Horizon is and what the aims of the project are.

Resources

Source code

Bug tracker

Blueprints

Documentation]

Design

Requirements

Python 2.6 or 2.7 (not compatible with python 3.0).
An identity and authentication service endpoint: Keystone
A Compute endpoint, with all compute services (API, scheduler, compute, network, etc.) running: Nova
An Image Store endpoint: Glance

Optional

An Object Store endpoint: Swift
A networking endpoint: Neutron

Getting Started

Please see the Horizon Quickstart Guide and Horizon Deployment Configuration Guide for the latest information on obtaining the code, creating a local settings file, running a development server, and considerations for a live deployment.

Horizon

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