Study tasks

Scenario

Imagine that you have been asked to get a new application running in your cloud which your company manages with OpenStack. To setup the new application, you have to get a virtual machine up and running.

Note that you are an end user and not in an operator/administrator role.

Tasks

Task 1

Please login into the Horizon user portal using the following credentials:

  Username: user 
  Password: Openstack1! 

After you login, go the Launch Instance page and open the Launch Instance modal.

Task 2

Open the Launch Instance modal and complete all required information in the first step.

1) Note that you would like to select the most recent version of Ubuntu Server with long term support (LTS) that supports amd64 processors.
2) In addition, you would like 50GB of persistent storage that should be deleted if you terminate the instance.

Task 3

You change your mind and decide to get an older and more reliable of Ubuntu Server, but still want long term support (LTS).

Go ahead and select an earlier version of Ubuntu Server as your source.
Continue to the next step when you are done.

Task 4

Select the flavor with the highest number of VCPUs that still stays within your project quota. Continue to the next step when you are done.

Task 5

Select networks for your instance: NET_PRIVATE_2, NET_PUBLIC and NET_DMZ

After selecting the networks, please place the networks in the following NIC order:

1) NET_PUBLIC 
2) NET_DMZ 
3) NET_PRIVATE_2” 

Continue to the next step when you are done.

Task 6

Select the following security groups:

Internal Access 
API server 
web

Continue to the next step when you are done.

Task 7

Create a new keypair for your instance.

Continue to the next step when you are done.

Task 8

Use the following configuration script for you instance:

Go ahead and launch you instance when you're done.