Introducing Horizon
Discover the main sections of the Horizon interface
Last updated 16th March 2022
Objective
The Horizon interface, natively offered with OpenStack, has been adapted by OVHcloud to offer additional features than those available in the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Discover the main sections of the Horizon interface.
Requirements
- A Public Cloud project in your OVHcloud account
- An OpenStack user created in your project
Instructions
Logging in to OpenStack Horizon
Open the Horizon login page and enter the OpenStack user credentials previously created, then click on Connect.
You can also click on Horizon in the left-hand menu under "Management Interfaces" after opening your Public Cloud project in the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Data centre region selection
Unlike the OVHcloud Control Panel, Horizon separates your services according to their region. You can choose the region from the menu in the top left-hand corner:
Left side menu
This menu allows you to quickly navigate through the project and its various features.
Compute
Overview
- Quota Summary
Horizon provides a summary of quotas, which allows you to see the used and available resources for your projects:
- Usage Summary
Next is a summary of the use of your project instances. The search period can be customised to restrict this summary to a desired period.
- Usage
A summary of your usage is also available. This is a summary of the various services associated with the project, such as the list of instances.
The summary is downloadable in CSV format, which allows you to extract the information so that you can analyse it via other tools. Simply click on Download CSV Summary.
- Instances
Use this page to list and manage instances. Here, for example, you can create new instances, pause them, access the instance console, and much more.
- Images
Use this menu to list and manage images, i.e. templates and snapshots associated with your project.
- Key Pairs
Here you can list and create your SSH keys for connecting to your instances.
Volumes
Use this menu to list and manage volumes, as well as volume backups and snapshots.
Network
List and manage your networks and security groups here.
Orchestration
This menu allows you to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications.
For more information, please refer to the OpenStack documentation.
Identity
Use this menu to list information about your projects.
User menu
In the top right-hand corner of the Horizon interface, a user menu allows you to:
- Change interface display settings.
- Download an OpenRC file containing your user IDs.
- Log out of the Horizon interface.
Go further
Familiarise yourself with the Public Cloud interface
Join our community of users on https://community.ovh.com/en/.
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