This blog is part of my series on Openstack Juno. In this blog, I will cover different management interfaces to Openstack. Following are the different management interfaces available.

• Horizon web interface
• CLI interface to each service. CLI interface is provided by Python script. Internally, the script calls the REST interface.
• REST interface. This is accessible either through Curl or a POSTMAN kind of client.
• Programmatic interface using Python SDK.

Horizon interface:

On the host where stacking is done, webserver runs on port 80 and all Openstack services can be configured using this interface. Login to Horizon can be done with either tenant userid or admin userid. Based on the userid, privileges are granted.

CLI interface:

CLI interface is provided for each service. Nova services are accessible through “nova” client, Swift services are accessible with “swift” client and so on. Following example lists running VMs. Continue reading Openstack Juno – Management interfaces →