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