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You're reading from OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788398763

Length 398 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

OpenStack

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

Kevin Jackson

Cody Bunch

Egle Sigler

James Denton

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition

Contributors

Preface

Another Book You May Enjoy

1. Installing OpenStack with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. The OpenStack Client

3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service

4. Neutron – OpenStack Networking

5. Nova – OpenStack Compute

6. Glance – OpenStack Image Service

7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage

8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage

9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible

10. Using OpenStack Dashboard

Index

Booting an instance into an Availability Zone

Instances can be created into a given AZ by passing the --availability-zone parameter as part of the creation process. Additionally, AZ can be selected in OpenStack Horizon as part of the instance creation wizard.

Getting ready

The following information is required to boot an instance into an AZ:

The openstack command-line client
The openrc file containing appropriate credentials
The name or ID of the AZ
Additional information required to start an instance
Note
Creating instances is covered in detail in the Booting an instance recipe. As such, this example skips some of the detail, instead it focuses on how to create an instance in a specific AZ.

How to do it…

To boot an instance into a specific AZ, the --availability-zone parameter is specified when running the openstack server create command:

openstack server create --flavor openstack.cookbook
   --image 08b822ba-be44-4639-b577-45e8dd37c06d
   --nic net-id=6cb5a4ce-1ea5-4817-9c34-a2212a66f394
   --security...