Open Stack

Hi,

Over the past 2 months with so little time I can dedicate to this effort I 
have been crawling towards my first Opensatck application. Today I have 
reached my first milestone. So what is this about?

The Openstack deployment is:
- Mirantis 6.0/Openstack Juno (so old) on a single hardware box in a bunch 
of Virtualbox VMs (6 of them) - the Openstack VMs have no internet access
- Nova networking (could not get Neutron configured so I could use it)
- Swift object storage

My first milestone is a Python script that will upload a software archive to 
the Object storage, then launch a VM on Openstack that upon boot 
(cloud-init) will download that archive and start a webserver from it that 
is externally accessible. So prerequisites are an uploaded cloud-image for 
the VM and a security group (with SSH key and port rules). The webserver 
just returns 'exception' when contacted as it is supposed to monitor another 
part of y application that I have not yet up and running (next milestone). 
Point is though - it is auto-launched at VM creation time (running as a 
non-root user) and it is externally accessible, returning something.

I used the nova-python sdk and swift-python sdk for this, tried first with 
the integrated OpenstackPythonSDK, but my deployment is likely too old and 
it has no Neutron, so that did not work out. I also had to as a question on 
Ask Openstack to get up to speed with the python SDK documentation. The 
answer I got to my question there provided snippets that did not run, but 
they kickstarted my understanding of the SDK, so they were more than welcome 
and extremely useful in that respect.

Next milestone: get the other parts of the app deployed and running (at 
least 3 more VMs) and get all VMs communicating with each other.

Kind regards,
Bart

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From: "Bonell Manjarrez, Marcela" <marcela.bonell.manjarrez at intel.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 11:59 PM
To: <user-committee at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: [User-committee]  [app] Deploying FirstApp in Trystack

> Hi folks,
>
> Good news, I'm able to deploy the FirstApp (getting started script) in 
> Trystack [1] with shade!
>
> First, I tried with libcloud without success, because libcloud has 
> problems with networking (security groups).
> Then I tried with shade and everything worked fine!
>
> The pre-work required to deploy the app is:
>
> * Generate an API password (Settings tab)
> * Create an internal network
> * Create a router
> * Connect the internal and public networks with the router
>
> All these steps are well documented in a video[2] that is accessible from 
> Trystack horizon login page [3].
>
> Despite the fact that Trystack is for testing purposes only (your 
> instances are available just for 1-3 days), it can be used for training or 
> to explore app development such as the FirstApp tutorial.
>
> [1] http://trystack.org/
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-M5Vt4-HYg
> [3] https://x86.trystack.org/dashboard/auth/login/?next=/dashboard/
>
> Marcela Bonell.
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