cloudstack_wrapper Cookbook

Chef wrapper cookbook to install Apache Cloudstack using cloudstack cookbook. Installation examples and provide installation order of various CloudStack components.

In this wrapper example, if you want to install a CloudStack management server with all dependencies such as installing MySQL server, system VM template for XenServer, use cloudstack_wrapper::all_in_one recipe.

Requirements

cookbooks

• cloudstack - cloudstack cookbook provide libraries to install and configure CloudStack.
• mysql - mysql cookbook is used to install MySQL server required by CloudStack.
• nfs - nfs cookbook used for secondary storage and to import systemvm-templates.

Usage

cloudstack_wrapper::all_in_one

Configure a CloudStack Management server which will contain:

• local MySQL server
• initialize CloudStack database
• setup nfs share: /data/secondary for the secondary storage
• Download XenServer SystemVM template.
• Download vhd-util script.
• start cloudstack-management
• install and start cloudstack-usage
• Generate API keys for "admin"

Just include cloudstack_wrapper::all_in_one in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cloudstack_wrapper::all_in_one]"
  ]
}

cloudstack_wrapper::dev_all_in_one

Same as all_in_one but set the Global Setting system.vm.use.local.storage to use Local Storage for System VMs.

cloudstack_wrapper::management_server

• Install cloudstack-management
• Initialise cloudstack database on remote MySQL server.
• Download system vm template using remote NFS share.
• Start cloudstack-management
• Generage API keys for "admin".

cloudstack_wrapper::mgt_remotenfs

Use Remote NFS share for Secondary Storage. Management server and cloudstack_usage locally.

cloudstack_wrapper::mgt_db_remotenfs

Install management server, cloudstack_usage, and MySQL server and use remote NFS shares.

cloudstack_wrapper::database_server

Install MySQL server with tuning required by CloudStack.

cloudstack_wrapper::nfsshares

Configure NFS server to export Primary and Secondary Storages shares.

Contributing

Fork it and customize it for your needs. Fill Github issues if you get into problems.

License and Authors

• Author:: Pierre-Luc Dion (pdion@cloudops.com)

Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2015 CloudOps.com

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