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Another option is what Cern does that uses a mistral workflow to do
something somewhat similar to that. Users can request resources and a
mistral workflow provisions them.

Here is the repo for some of their workflows. You can probably find a more
detailed infrastructure description on one of their talks.
https://gitlab.cern.ch/cloud-infrastructure/mistral-workflows


Cheers,
   Adriano


On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 14:05, KK CHN <kkchn.in at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does this need to be a separate web application? or Customizing horizon
> dashboard ?  Which is feasible ?
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 1:06 PM Amit Uniyal <auniyal at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> You want to automate and provide a web interface solution.
>>
>> The simplest way would be to create a new web application (which can have
>> only 2-3 pages) with an input form asking for VM details and usage.
>>
>> 1. Get all info in json format, update it as per available image, flavor
>> details.
>>
>> Now you have all details of request, you can add an approval system here
>> manual/automated (as per usage and quota assigned).
>>
>> 2. Convert this to a heat template, upload to swift(for future
>> reference), and call heat api.
>>     Why heat ?
>>      It will allow you to create n+ number of VM at once, for example can
>> create a full lab, having different instance flavor on different networks.
>>
>> 3. Update VM deployment status and access info back in the web
>> application.
>>
>> Tools:
>> web app: Django or node js
>>
>> Docs:
>> https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/orchestration/v1/
>> https://docs.openstack.org/heat/rocky/template_guide/hot_guide.html
>> https://docs.openstack.org/ocata/cli-reference/heat.html#heat-stack-create
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 9:14 AM KK CHN <kkchn.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone!
>>> I need a guide or advice or anything.
>>>
>>> I am administering a private cloud in openstack. As I am using the
>>> Horizon dashboard for the VM provisioning and administering activities.
>>> But the users are sending requests in mail and creating the VMs for them.
>>> can we make workflow automation for the request and approval and
>>> provisioning automatically in the Horizon dashboard on approval?
>>>
>>> Has anyone already done /have idea on these kinds of solutions for your
>>> openstack  cloud ??. Is there some kind of documentation that could help
>>> me?.
>>>
>>> Any guidance much appreciated, where to start, what to refer and which
>>> tool/programming language best if I need to code from scratch.
>>>
>>> thanks in advance.
>>> Krish
>>>
>>

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