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+# Openstack resources
+
+Network and image must be created prior to run this template
+    network: cvp.net.1
+    image: cvp.ubuntu.1604
+
+To auto create them, run cvp resource creation script from ../scripts
+Path is relative to this folder: <repo>/autoscale
+    bash ../prepare.sh -w ($pwd)
+
+# Source the rc file
+    . cvprc
+
+# Create stack
+    openstack stack create -t simple.yaml -e environment.yaml simple-scale
+
+# Check that 2 servers created and copy one of the server IDs
+    openstack server list
+
+# Check that alarm is created
+    openstack alarm list
+
+# Check that 'cpu' metric is coming in
+    openstack metric resource show --type instance <server_uuid>
+
+# Finally, wait for several minutes for the metrics to collect and check averages
+    gnocchi measures show --resource-id <server_uuid> --aggregation rate:mean cpu
+
+# And check that signals coming in:
+    openstack stack event list simple-scale
+
+# And check that there is 5 VMs running after ~10 min
+   openstack server list