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Dan Radez
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Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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Launching an instance using the web interface


Now that we've booted an instance on the command line, let's take a look at doing the same thing in the web interface:

  1. Go ahead and log in to the web interface as the non-administrative user you created in Chapter 2, Identity Management.

  2. Under the Compute menu, select Instances and then click on the Launch Instance button.

  3. In the Launch Instance dialog, start by filling in a name for the instance, as shown in the following screenshot. Also, note that there are blue asterisks next to Source, Flavor, and Networks. These are the required sections of the dialog to visit:

  4. Click the Next button to get to the Source section of the dialog. There will be a + button next to the Fedora image you uploaded in Chapter 3, Image Management. Click that to select the Fedora image as the boot source for the instance, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Click the Next button to get to the Flavor section of the dialog. There will be a + button next to the available...

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Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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