Graphical User Interface (GUI)

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides a point-and-click experience for working with Chameleon resources. From the GUI, you may perform tasks such as manage and launch instances, and configure custom networking. Additionally, you may download an OpenStack RC file from the GUI if you wish to work with the Command Line Interface, instead. The Chameleon GUI is built on top of OpenStack Horizon (running OpenStack Antelope). Chameleon has multiple resource sites, each with its own URL (though it is possible to easily switch from one to other, see Project and Site Menu).

CHI@TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center: https://chi.tacc.chameleoncloud.org
CHI@UC - University of Chicago: https://chi.uc.chameleoncloud.org
CHI@NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research: https://chi.ncar.chameleoncloud.org
CHI@Edge - Edge computing testbed: https://chi.edge.chameleoncloud.org

Chameleon also hosts KVM@TACC, a traditional OpenStack cloud where you may work with virtual machines. This site does not have access to bare metal resources. It is available at: https://kvm.tacc.chameleoncloud.org.

This section provides an overview of GUI interface navigation and basic functionality. For detailed instructions on using specific Chameleon features, see the dedicated documentation sections: Bare Metal Instances, Networking, Reservations, Images, Object Store, and Complex Appliances.

You may login to either site using your Chameleon portal username and password.

Attention

Each Chameleon testbed site—CHI@TACC, CHI@UC, CHI@NCAR, CHI@Edge, and KVM@TACC—is independent, so snapshots, keypairs, Swift containers, and other objects are unique to each site. For example, a keypair created at the CHI@TACC site is not available at the CHI@UC site. In addition, the bare metal resource types vary between sites.

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