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Dashboard (Horizon)

Horizon is the graphical user interface for DT Cloud Services tenants. It is the implementation of OpenStack's dashboard, which provides a web-based interface to various OpenStack projects and services. Its modular architecture is based on Django and allows creating new dashboards by reusing its components. The design principles include out-of-the-box support for all core OpenStack projects, being extensible, easily manageable and stable.

For an introduction to Horizon, please see https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/og3uQiiR

The Horizon menu items correspond to a subset of openstack commands. The use and format of command arguments are described in the How-to Guides for the command-line interface listed in Table 1. Please note that some menu items may require special privileges or may not have been implemented yet.

Horizon menu item	How-to Guide/Tutorial	Remark
Compute/Overview	---	Information only
Compute/Instances	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/v1d1QQQU	Create a compute instance, adding a security group or floating IP, and changing the state of the machine.
Compute/Images	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/gm32HyTD
Compute/Key Pairs	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/b1zuC1b6	Create a key pair in the project (or on the client)
Compute/Server Groups	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/eveJYvS1
Volumes/Volumes	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/mh7Qc0oL	Create a volume and attach it to an instance
Volumes/Backups	---	Not yet implemented
Volumes/Snapshots	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/mh7Qc0oL	Take a snapshot of a volume
Volumes/Groups	---	Not yet implemented
Volumes/Group Snapshots	---	Not yet implemented
Network/Networks	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/txs1fqwm	Create a private network and subnet
Network/Routers	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/txs1fqwm	Create a router and provide internet access
Network/Security Groups	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/A1y1XkTd	Create and assign security groups
Network/Load Balancers	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/gW1m7uJE	Create the components of a load balancer
Network/Floating IPs	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/txs1fqwm	Allocate and assign a floating IP address to an instance
Network/Trunks	Network trunking	Create a network trunk from parent port and assign subports
Orchestration/Stacks	Deploy web server
Orchestration/Resource Types	---	Information only
Orchestration/Template Types	---	Information only
Orchestration/Template Generator	https://pannet.atlassian.net/l/c/i66u5y3X	Design Heat templates for cloud infrastructure deployment

_{Table 1. References to OpenStack commands related to Horizon menu items.}