A Customized Dashboard for VM Provisioning Using OpenStack

Cloud Computing allows the user to access the cloud services dynamically over the internet wherever and whenever needed. Open Stack is an open source software used to build a public or a private cloud. In its raw form Open Stack is not flexible enough to accommodate an organizational hierarchy. In this paper we propose a novel approach to modify the OpenStack Dashboard´s structure to adapt to an organization´s hierarchy and in addition we also integrate modules like user and tenant registration, role based access control and custom flavour creation onto the Open Stack dashboard to make it more flexible and easy to use. The implementation is done using a sample organizational hierarchy which is discussed in detail in this paper and we have designed an Open Stack dashboard using Open Stack Icehouse version deployed on Ubuntu.