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OpenStack Essentials. - Second Edition

You're reading from  OpenStack Essentials. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462664
Pages 182 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Dan Radez Dan Radez
Profile icon Dan Radez

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. RDO Installation 2. Identity Management 3. Image Management 4. Network Management 5. Instance Management 6. Block Storage 7. Object Storage 8. Telemetry 9. Orchestration 10. Docker 11. Scaling Horizontally 12. Monitoring 13. Troubleshooting Index

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 allocation of virtual CPUs, RAM, and disk space that an instance will use when it launches. When Triple-O installed your system earlier, it created a few flavors for you. Let's take a look at those. Go ahead and source an overcloudrc file. Once you have one sourced, list the flavors, as follows:

undercloud# openstack flavor list

You can create your own flavors if these do not fit your needs exactly, though only the admin user can create new flavors. There is nothing magical about the flavors that Triple-O has created. They have been created close to what the rest of the cloud industry uses for convenience. We are not going to get too deep into flavors; we'll just use the preconfigured flavors that you have just listed.

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