Chapter 9. Horizon Dashboard Service

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Securing Horizon with Secure Socket Layer
  • Configuring Horizon caching with memcached
  • Customizing Horizon dashboard appearance

Introduction

The Horizon dashboard service provides a web-based graphical user interface for OpenStack. This allows users to consume the OpenStack services. Administrators can access the overall view of the size and state of the OpenStack Cloud. Administrators can also access, manage, and provision OpenStack compute, storage, networking, and other services and resources that OpenStack provides.

Horizon dashboard can be used as a self-service portal for OpenStack Cloud users to provision OpenStack resources within the limits and quotas set ...

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