Cloudstack deploying cloudstack

 






I was talking at the Cloudstack European Meet up the other day about getting Cloudstack to deploy Cloudstack.

Well its more than that - I was talking about the concepts rather than what I was doing, as really, Cloudstack deploying Cloudstack is a bit of a gimick.

Here is my github link to the project

https://github.com/oliverleach/cloudstack-puppet


However, I thought I would include some scribble on how the project works in case anyone is interested:

Cloudstack 4.0.1 deploy

This project enables a running Cloudstack instance 3.x and above to deploy Cloudstack 4.0.1 instances. This could be to demo Cloudstack 4.0.1 or used for testing purposes, by easily spinning up Cloudstack 4.0.1 instances. It could also be used to provision private clouds using Cloudstack.

How to use this project

The python script and puppet manifests in this repo deploys cloudstack 4.0.1 using Puppet and the Cloudstack API.

For this to work, you need to use the python scripts and 2 puppet templates. One template is the puppet-master, and one template is the puppet-agent.

You need to configure the python parameters in the puppet-deploy.py script as per your environment. This includes:

1 - your API key
2 - your secret key
3 - your service offering
4 - your Cloudstack zone ID
5 - your network ID of your user account
6 - The Cloudstack provisioning host IP and port
7 - The Cloudstack protocol used (http or https)

You will also need your 2 template IDs for the puppet master and puppet agent

These templates can be downloaded using the following link:

Puppet Agent

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/79905244/puppet-agent.7z

Puppet Master

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/79905244/puppet-master.7z

Both templates are running CentOS 6.4 64-bit. The puppet master is configured as a puppet-ca, a puppet server and a puppet agent. The puppet agent has the puppet agent installed and runs a userdata.rb script on startup. See the rc.local file for further information.

Once the templates are unzipped and uploaded in to your provisioning Cloudstack instance, update the puppet-deploy.py script with the template IDs.

To run the python scripts, use an interpreter like idle, open and run the puppet-deploy.py file, or simply run from the command line where an instance of python is installed; e.g. python puppet-deploy.py. This has been tested against python 2.7.3.

The git repo holds the puppet manifests which are included in the puppet-master template.
They are just for reference.

This project is just for fun, could be better written and I hold no responsibility if you use the project. You are allowed to do so.