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On Tue, 2022-08-02 at 17:13 +0530, KK CHN wrote:
> The use case is,   the user requests  need to be controlled. Cannot provide
> each project for each user.   Even Though your infrastructure is large
> enough to support each project for each user ( for a large user base
> automation with approval/rejection  like this is a fair practice.)

normal users will only see the project they are a member off not all porject
so this sound like a admin use cuase not a enduser use case corect.

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> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 2:33 PM Eugen Block <eblock at nde.ag> wrote:
> 
> > I don't have any suggestions for the automation here but a question.
> > Couldn't you just give each user a project so they can login and
> > create their instances themselves?
> > 
> > 
> > Zitat von Amit Uniyal <auniyal at redhat.com>:
> > 
> > > 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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> >