Hi everyone, I'm interested in the project "Create a cloud in a box using DevCloud".
I'm a MS student at IIIT-Hyderabad. I've good experience with Python, Bash, openstack, Xen/KVM and automation(chef/puppet). As per my discussion with Sebastien, my understanding is that the project aims to extend devcloud to provision multiple instances of devcloud appliances for simulating more realistic production environments. While installing devcloud, I realized that for setting up more complex environments with multiple hosts and clusters, the procedure is too manual. So, for this project we certainly need a command line utility to automate installation and configurations. I’m a little uncertain about ‘simulating production environments’. I see this happening in two ways. *1.* Developers still use their development system to host complete cloud. Of course, in this case it would be multiple virtual box instances running devcloud and a management server running on the host itself. For this scenario, the command line utility can automate the setup. .e.g *$ devcloud --deploy management-server # deploy management server on local system $ devcloud --deploy host -n 2 --provider=virtualbox # deploy two hosts on virtualbox * The utility will download the updated source from git and install the management server. The hosts will be provisioned through the devcloud virtual box appliance or KVM image. *2. *Developers have a set of physical machines where they plan to host cloudstack. In this case, hosts won’t be running on virtualbox/kvm, but physical machines. A deployment scenario here would look like. *$* devcloud --deploy mangement_server -H 10.0.0.3 -u root -p pass *$* devcloud --deploy host -H 10.0.0.4,10.0.0.5 -u root -p pass2 --hypervisor=xen Here, the utility will log into the specified machines and configure them accordingly <http://rohityadav.in/logs/devcloud/>. No virtual appliance will be involved. I kindly request you to share your views regarding my approach and your expectations for this project. Thanks and Regards, Pulkit Singhal
