Floating IP: allocate and associate

Allocate a floating IP

The allocation will reserve and return a floating IP from the available pool for the project.

To allocate a floating IP to a project, in the Horizon Dashboard

click on “Network → Floating IPs”
then click on the button “Allocate IP to Project” on the right side of the dashboard page.
Once allocated, a floating IP can be associated with running instances.

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At any moment, floating IPs can be de-allocated from a project using the available action for the floating IP.

Important

It should be noted that if you de-allocate a floating IP from a project and then allocate one again, the floating IP will not be same as before, as the floating IP is automatically select by the system from the available pool.

Associate a floating IP to an instance

With the association of the floating IP to an instance, the instance becomes reachable from the external network.

Click on “Associate” action on the right of the page “Network → Floating IPs”.
In the popup, select your virtual machine by the menu in “Port to be associated”.

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The inverse action, “Dissociate Floating IP”, is available from the “Compute → Instances” page.

At any moment, floating IPs can be de-associated from an instance using the available action for the floating IP.