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Cloud Provisioner support for OpenStack

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Version information

  • 0.0.4 (latest)
  • 0.0.3
  • 0.0.2
released Jan 18th 2013

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'puppetlabs-node_openstack', '0.0.4'
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install puppetlabs-node_openstack --version 0.0.4

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puppetlabs/node_openstack — version 0.0.4 Jan 18th 2013

Puppet OpenStack Provisioner

Puppet Module to launch and manage virtual machine instances using the Nova EC2 API.

This module has only been tested with Puppet 2.7.10.

Getting Started with OpenStack

Before launching instances with the OpenStack Provisioner module, you'll need to build out a fully functional OpenStack environment.

We currently have modules that can be used to build out functional deployments:

Once your OpenStack instance is built, obtain your Access Key ID and Secret Key. Place them into the ~/.fog file with the following syntax:

:default:
  :aws_access_key_id: AKIAIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  :aws_secret_access_key: jcjnhaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Once you have your Access key and ID in the ~/.fog file, you'll also need to generate your SSH private key in Horizon (or just import the public key that you wish to use).

You will need to have at least one valid image in order to start provisioning instances. Initial testing has been performed using the oneiric cloud image:

http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/oneiric/current/oneiric-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz

Devstack will automatically create an image for the micro OS Cirros which can be referenced as: ami-00000003. This image is sufficient for testing the provisioning component of OpenStack Provisioner, but it is not possible to install Puppet on this image.

You will need to know the URL of the nova ec2 api server. http://your.nova.api.server:8773/services/Cloud. This endpoint will need to be explicitly specified when using the OpenStack Provisioner.

Finally, you'll probably want to configure the default security group to allow SSH (Port 22) access. This can be accomplished through the Horizon console. The install actions will fail if they cannot access the target system on port 22 (SSH).

Required Gems

  • guid (>= 0.1.1)
  • fog (>=1.0.0)

Other Requirements

The cloud provisioner will also need to be installed.

This currently requires the latest version of the code: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-cloud-provisioner

TODO - cut a release of cloud provisioner and package it

as a gem

Launching EC2 Instances

With your EC2 credentials placed in ~/.fog and your SSH private key available on your system, you may launch a new instance with this module installed using the following single command:

$ puppet node_openstack create --image=ami-00000003 --endpoint=http://172.21.0.19:8773/services/Cloud --keyname=dans_key --type m1.tiny
notice: Creating new instance ...
notice: Creating new instance ... Done
notice: Launching server i-00000002 ...
##############
notice: Server i-00000002 is now launched
notice: Server i-00000002 public dns name: server-2
HOSTNAME

Once launched, you should be able to SSH to the new system using the private key associated with the previously specified keyname.

$ ssh ubuntu@HOSTNAME
The authenticity of host '10.0.0.3 (10.0.0.3)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is be:52:5e:78:79:39:f5:a3:d9:79:f7:35:59:aa:b7:b6.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '10.0.0.3' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
$ quit

Finally, you're able to install Puppet or Puppet Enterprise on the newly launched system:

$ puppet node install --login ubuntu --keyfile ~/.ssh/dans_key.pem HOSTNAME
notice: Waiting for SSH response ...
notice: Waiting for SSH response ... Done
notice: Installing Puppet ...
66421292-9dee-7f41-624e-6ad2c50d78c1

If you need more detailed information, please use the --verbose and --debug options to get more detailed output from the command.

As we can see, this installs Puppet using ruby gems:

$ ssh ubuntu@HOSTNAME --version
2.7.10

Puppet Installation

The following installation scripts are available to install puppet on a target system. These script are appropriate values for the --install-script option to the puppet node install action.

  • puppet-community (default) - Installs Puppet and Facter from our repos.

  • puppet-enterprise - Installs Puppet by uploading a copy of the puppet enterprise tarball from your workstation to the target node along with an automated answers file.

  • puppet-enterprise-http - Installs Puppet-Enterprise from a remote http URL.

Other Actions

The OpenStack Provisioner also supports a few other basic actions.

$ puppet node_openstack list --endpoint=http://api:8773/services/Cloud

Lists all instances in the specified endpoint.

$ puppet node_openstack list_images --endpoint=http://api:8773/services/Cloud

List all images in the specified endpoint.

$ puppet node_openstack list_keynames --endpoint=http://api:8773/services/Cloud

List all keynames in the specified endpoint.

$ puppet node_openstack terminate <instance_id> --endpoint=http://api:8773/services/Cloud

Terminate the specified endpoint.

For more details on these subcommands, run:

$ puppet help node_openstack

Reporting Issues

Please report any problems you have with the OpenStack Provisioner module in the project page issue tracker at: