Changes to the default OpenStack profile

We have three announcements to make today regarding the default OpenStack profile in CloudLab:

1. The OpenStack profile now randomly generates a new password for every experiment. This password is used for the 'admin' login in the OpenStack web interface and for password ssh logins to VMs created by OpenStack. The password for your experiment can be found in the "Instructions" panel in the experiment status page. 

   

   OpenStack profile instructions showing admin/root password

2. It's now easier to tell when OpenStack is done setting up. The Topology view of the experiment status now has little icons on each node showing the status of the scripts that set up that node. Now, when OpenStack setup is complete, all of these icons will change to checkmarks, and the 'State' of the experiment will change from "booted" to "ready". It's normal for the control node to take much longer to finish setting up than the compute or network manager nodes; it has a lot more work to do.



Profile topology view showing three ready nodes

3. We are deprecating the "Tutorial-OpenStack" profile in favor of the "OpenStack" profile. The "OpenStack" profile covers all features offered by the tutorial version, and more. We are not deleting the Tutorial-OpenStack profile at this time, but it is no longer selected by default, and we do not encourage people to use it for new experiments.