Hi Peter, For cloudstack simulator, you can use docker image from my repository: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/ustcweizhou/cloudstack-simulator
It is not up-to-date. I will build a docker image for 4.16.0.0-RC1 later today. You can build your own image from source code as well. -Wei On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 12:32, Muryshkin, Peter < peter.murysh...@zv.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > from what I can find, there are three more or less established/already > well elaborated approaches to simulate a CloudStack instance locallly. > Depending on the target group and their goals, they can have different > levels of fidelity and usability. > > 1. Obviously CloudStack developers confgure a KVM development environment > to work inside it, this is part of the Apache CloudStack Hackerbook kindly > shared by ShapeBlue. [1] > 2. For test scenarios, Hackerbook describes a mocked simulator approach [2] > 3. For users for whom the whole cloud system is just a "black box", > especially cloud beginners, there is a single integrated Docker container. > [3] > > With the rise of CI/CD and infrastructure as code automation practices, > where you just need more or less on demand one or even many versions of the > CloudStack API, > [3] appears to be a crucial building block in the cloud userspace before > just "trying out CloudStack". > > So it appears that there might be much demand on a Apache CloudStack > containerized instance: > > 1. Demand from potential new adopters, for their "Apache CloudStack to go" > demos > 2. Demand from DevOps/GitOps/SRE/you-name-it enabled teams who implement > their virtual infrastructure for example with Terraform and the CloudStack > provider plugin and want to simulate rollout scenarios. > > However, is this true? > > * the container simulator hasn't been updated on DockerHub since a couple > of years; is there another place in meantime or will this approach dumped > for some reason? > * there is not so much discussion about this asset on mailing lists; so > there is not so much demand as one might assume? > > What do you think? > > kind regards > > -- > > Peter Muryshkin > Fraunhofer Gesellschaft > https://www.linkedin.com/in/muryshkin/
