Creating a flavor

Before Nova can start instances, it first needs to know what resources should be assigned to those instances. The way Nova handles resource assignments is to define flavors. A flavor specifies the number of vCPUs, RAM, and the disk to assign to an instance.

Getting ready

To create a new flavor, you will need the following:

  • The openstack command-line client
  • The openrc file containing appropriate credentials
  • The name, vCPU, RAM, and disk values for the new flavor

The flavor we will create in this example will have the following attributes:

  • Flavor name: openstack.cookbook
  • vCPU: 1
  • Ram: 512 MB
  • Disk: 5 GB
  • Visibility: Public

How to do it…

The following commands are used to create a new flavor:

  1. First, list the available flavors already configured ...

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