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Heat is an orchestration component of OpenStack which allows templates to be used to define resources and to specify the relationships between resources in a stack. This page explains the basics of how to create a heat stack. For more detailed docs and examples, see the Heat Advanced Material pages at https://stfc-cloud-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Heat/index .html .
To check Heat is available we can run the command:
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This command returns the list of stacks in the user’s project. If no stacks have been created, this command returns an empty line. If Heat is not installed, see the more detailed pages on Heat: https://stfc-cloud-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Heat/IntroducingOpenStackHeat.html#heat-commands
To create a stack, we first need to write a template which will be used to launch the stack.
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For more detailed information on Heat, and to see some example stacks, refer to the advance Heat docs at https://stfc-cloud-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Heat/index.html