OpenStack Dashboard

Users are provided with a dashboard that allows easy management of resources allocated to them. The COARE Science Cloud Dashboard is OpenStack’s web-based user interface that contains multiple tabs (Compute, Network, Object Store, Settings) which enables users to fully utilize the COARE Science Cloud service.

Science Cloud users are automatically part of a Project on OpenStack, a group of one or more users based on their organization, department, project, and/or research.

Compute tab

The Compute tab of the OpenStack Dashboard contains the following options:

• Overview: View reports for the project.
• Instances: View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or reboot instances, or connect to them through VNC.
• Volumes: View, create, edit, and delete volumes.
• Images: View images and instance snapshots created by project users, plus any images that are publicly available. Create, edit, and delete images, and launch instances from images and snapshots.
• Key Pairs: View, create, edit, import, and delete key pairs.
• API Access: View services and service endpoints available to the user

Network tab

The Network tab of the OpenStack Dashboard contains the following options:

• Network Topology: View the network topology.
• Networks: Create and manage public and private networks.
• Routers: Create and manage routers.
• Firewalls: Create and manage firewalls
• Security Groups: View, create, edit, and delete security groups and security group rules.
• Load Balancers: Create and Manage load balancers
• Floating IPs: Allocate an IP address to or release it from a project.

Object Store tab

The Object Store tab of the OpenStack Dashboard includes the following option:

• Containers: Create and manage containers and objects.

Settings tab

The Settings tab of the OpenStack Dashboard includes the following options:

• User Settings: View user’s settings
• Change Password: Change user’s password.