This procedure is performed by a tenant user using the OpenStack Horizon dashboard.
Log in as described in How to Access the OpenStack Dashboard, using the credentials of the tenant user.
The Floating IPs tab displays an allocated floating IP address.
The Project → Instances window shows that the floating IP address is associated with the VM instance.
If you had selected a keypair (SSH Public Key) while launching a VM instance, then that SSH key would be added into the authorized_keys file for the root user in the VM instance.
# ssh root@IP-address
where IP-address is the floating IP address that is associated with the VM instance.
After logging in, you can use the instance as you would normally do with other systems such as installing applications, and so on.
global# ssh root@10.134.13.9 Last login: Fri Jul 18 00:37:39 2014 from 10.132.146.13 Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 11.2 June 2014 root@host-192-168-101-3:~# uname -a SunOS host-192-168-101-3 5.11 11.2 i86pc i386 i86pc root@host-192-168-101-3:~# zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 2 instance-00000001 running / solaris excl root@host-192-168-101-3:~# ipadm NAME CLASS/TYPE STATE UNDER ADDR lo0 loopback ok -- -- lo0/v4 static ok -- 127.0.0.1/8 lo0/v6 static ok -- ::1/128 net0 ip ok -- -- net0/dhcp inherited ok -- 192.168.101.3/24