Requirements:

1. Functional OpenStack Instance
2. Keystone credentials
3. Application details

1. Functional OpenStack Instance
2. Keystone credentials
3. Application details

Public Clouds

1. Functional OpenStack Instance
2. Keystone credentials
3. Application details

User & Tenant access

1. Functional OpenStack Instance
2. Keystone credentials
3. Application details

Details

1. Availability Zone
2. Instance Name
3. Flavor
4. Instance Count
5. Instance Boot Source
   1. Image
   2. Snapshot
   3. Volume

Ways:

1. Command Line Interface (python-novaclient)
2. Web Interface (horizon)
3. RESTful Webservices

1. Command Line Interface (python-novaclient)
2. Web Interface (horizon)
3. RESTful Webservices

Command Line Interface

1. Command Line Interface (python-novaclient)
2. Web Interface (horizon)
3. RESTful Webservices

1. Command Line Interface (python-novaclient)
2. Web Interface (horizon)
3. RESTful Webservices

cURL - OpenStack APIs

http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html

Provisioning:

• Custom image building

• User-data boot scripts and cloud-init

• Configuration management tools

Custom image:

• No need to download and install anything.

• Can be verified before released.

• A number of tools are available(diskimage-builder, imagefactory)

User data is the mechanism by which a user can pass information contained in a local file to an instance at launch time.

To do something useful with the user data, the virtual machine image must be configured to run a service on boot that retrieves the user data from the metadata service and take some action based on the contents of the data. The cloud-init package was designed to do exactly this.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/files/head:/doc/examples/

Configuration Management