Prerequisites

Prior to deploying the Heat templates, ensure that you have completed the following steps:

• Install the OpenStack client libraries and command-line interfaces (CLIs) on your system. Refer to the relevant section in the OpenStack User Guide for details on doing so, for a variety of operating systems and platforms.

• Retrieve your OpenStack Keystone credentials (a Keystone API endpoint, a tenant name, a username, and a password).

• Retrieve the Neutron UUID of your external network, that is, the network that floating IPs are allocated from:

openstack network list
openstack network show <networkname>

• Create a Nova keypair for yourself (openstack keypair create).
• Upload an Ubuntu 14.04 image for your tenant into Glance:

wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
openstack image create \
  --disk-format qcow2 \
  --container-format bare \
  --file trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img \
  --name ubuntu-14.04-server-cloudimg

Alternatively, you may ask your cloud administrator do the same for you, and mark the image public by adding the --public option.