This page describes the steps to to create a VM using the Openstack CLI.
Pre-requisites
There is a set of mandatory inputs required to create a new VM which are:
- keypair : configured SSH key which is needed to connect to the VM (see EWC - OpenStack Command-Line client for how to import it )
- image : the Virtual Machine image (see EWC - VM images and default users )
- flavor : the resources (CPU, RAM, Disk) configuration for the VM (see as reference EWC VM plans )
- network : the network to be attached to the VM : external-internet: access to the Internet with public IP ; private-<tenant>: local private network within the tenant.
- security group : security groups are sets of applied IP filter rules which define networking access to the instance