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Subject: Re: [CLOUDSTACK-6114][GSoC] End of second term approaching
From: Sebastien Goasguen <runseb@gmail.com>
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Ian,

This is terrific. I hope folks will take time to check all the scenarios =
you have covered.

This will make testing cloudstack super easy as well as remove the need =
for devcloud (which tends to break in the latest releases).

Great work,

-sebastien

On Aug 7, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Ian Duffy <ian@ianduffy.ie> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> Giving a very brief overview of everything that has been done. If any
> questions or expansion is wanted please reply back.
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> TL;DR "vagrant up" for: Cloudstack basic zone from source, Cloudstack
> advanced zone from source, Cloudstack Simulator, Cloudstack binary
> installation and configuration. All provisioning/setup done by chef.
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> VagrantFiles / Example usage: https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014
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> Chef recipe: https://github.com/imduffy15/cookbook_cloudstack
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> *CLOUDSTACK-6114 - GSoC: Create config management recipes to install
> CloudStack. ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6114
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6114> ) *
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> *"Devcloud" basic =
(https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/basic
> <https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/basic>)*
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> Re-jigged version of devcloud using vagrant and chef.
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> Made up of:
> 1) "Management" VM. Acts as NFS, MySQL and a Gateway.
> 2)  XenServer VM. (Built using packer
> https://github.com/imduffy15/packer-xenserver)
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> Cloudstack is ran on the developers machine.
> Marvin is also ran on the developers machine with a supplied =
configuration
> for a basic zone.
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> MySQL is forwarded from the VM to localhost 3306. This means deploydb =
works
> without issue.
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> Unlike the old implementation, the VMs brought up by cloudstack have
> internet access.
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> VagrantFile and Marvin config can be found at
> https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/basic
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> *"Devcloud" advanced
> (https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/advanced
> <https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/advanced>)*
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> Extension of the above described "Devcloud" basic.
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> This extension introduces more virtual network cards. This allows for =
an
> advanced zone to be deployed.
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> Again, Cloudstack and Marvin will the ran on the developers machine. A
> marvin config file has been supplied for this.
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> VagrantFile and Marvin config can be found at
> https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/advanced
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> **** Note ****
> *The ttylinux_vhd supplied with devcloud has hard coded dns servers in
> resolv.conf.*
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> *These are not overwrote by the DHCP lease.*
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> *As a side project and workaround I have supplied Debian
> images http://dl.openvm.eu/cloudstack/debian/vanilla/7/x86_64/
> <http://dl.openvm.eu/cloudstack/debian/vanilla/7/x86_64/> Thanks to =
Nux for
> hosting and exoscale supplying boxes to build the images =
automatically. *
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> *Simulator =
(https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/simulator
> <https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/simulator>)*
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> This is a single virtual machine. All development tools and mysql are
> installed onto this box. A specified version of Cloudstack source is
> downloaded and compiled.
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> The simulator is booted, when completed marvin is executed on the box =
and
> the simulator is configured.
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> Takes a bit of time to come up... faster solution below.
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> VagrantFile at =
https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/simulator
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> *Simulator fast
> (https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/simulator-fast
> <https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/simulator-fast>)*
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> This is a single virtual machine that supplies the cloudstack =
simulator. I*t
> comes up in however fast you can download the 128mb cloud-client-ui =
war.*
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> This is restricted to running the cloud-client.war I have supplied =
(based
> of 4.4). This is due to inflexibility around the database. I was =
hoping to
> just use the basic create-schema files and let the upgrade handle the =
rest
> however the upgrade fails. If anybody has a solution to this I would =
love
> to hear it.
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> This works by taking the cloud-client.war and deploying it with jetty.
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> VagrantFile at
> https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/simulator-fast
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> *Binary Installation
> =
(https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/binary-installation
> =
<https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/binary-installation>)*=

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> Takes the Cloudstack RPMs, installs them and all requirements.
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> Installs marvin and executes it against a configuration supplied =
within the
> chef recipe to configure your cloud.
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> The hypervisor is to be considered a static node. In a real world
> environment it must exist before executing the chef recipe.
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> For demoing and testing purposes a VagrantFile for this can be found =
at
> https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/binary-installation
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> **** Note ****
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> All of the above described boxes are not baked. They are fried on boot =
up
> using chef, this means you can use the recipe outside of vagrant for
> achieving the same thing.
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> The recipe can be found at =
https://github.com/imduffy15/cookbook_cloudstack
> for usage please see the above mentioned vagrantfiles and their run =
lists
> along with the chef attributes defination file.