Open Stack

Cool. :)

I'd recommend looking into OpenStack Heat very closely though for doing most of the heavy lifting. Doing the deployment Declaratively makes for significantly less code then trying to do it Imperatively and makes it much more fault tolerant.

You can do something like:
parameters:
  Name: Server1
  Flavor: m1.large
  ExtraUserData: "yum install -y httpd; systemctl start httpd; systemctl enable httpd"
  PrimarySecurityGroup: web
  PrimaryNetworkId: cd5f6918-2870-48f4-85d1-722e70350ed4

heat stack-create -e <the file above> -u https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EMSL-MSC/heat-templates/master/cfn/lib/SimpleServer.yaml MyStack

Done. :)

I'm continuing development on the lib templates to make them even more generic/configurable to make it even easier to launch complicated setups without much code. See some of the parent directories for more examples.

Thanks,
Kevin

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From: Bart Demeulenaere [bart.demeulenaere at venean.com]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 3:13 PM
To: user-committee at lists.openstack.org
Subject: [User-committee] [app] 1st milestone for my first Openstack    Application

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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