playing with openstack HEAT : beginners introduction

• Install heat
• Heat templates reside here

1.  https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates
2. which can be seen on the vm its in /vagrant/heat_templates
3. there are test templates in root dir as well ex:- /root/heat_test_template.yml

• on the controller vm this is how to use heat to spin up nodes
  
  1. heat stack-create -f heat_templates/test.yml test
  2. once its created you should be able to see it using CLI like this :-
     [root@controller-01 vagrant(keystone_admin)]$ heat stack-list
     
      +--------------------------------------+------------+---------------+----------------------+
     | id                                   | stack_name | stack_status  | creation_time        |
     +--------------------------------------+------------+---------------+----------------------+
     | xxxx-xxxxx | test       | CREATE_FAILED | 2015-11-16T20:59:49Z |
     +--------------------------------------+------------+---------------+----------------------+
  3. on horizon you can see it here 
  
  

          7.  If you click the "stack name" link you can get into more details of your stack.
          8. There are Actions like "resume stack, suspect stack , delete stack" e.t.c that you can perform
         9.  You can get different details on the stack on horizonw including the template itself and you can change the template
     

• General Heat Resources :-

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat

https://github.com/openstack/heat