Chapter 6. Instance Management
In the past few chapters, we collected resources that laid the foundation to launch an instance. We have created a tenant—a place for our resources to live in. We added a disk image that the instance will use as its boot device. We created a network for the instance. Now, it is time to launch the instance. Nova is the instance management component in OpenStack. In this chapter, we will look at managing:
- Flavors
- Key pairs
- Instances
- Floating IPs
- Security groups
Managing flavors
When an instance is launched, there has to be a definition of the amount of resources that will be allocated to the instance. In OpenStack, this is defined by what are called flavors. A flavor defines the quantum of virtual CPUs, RAM, and disk space ...
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