Hi Ilya, > On 05-Dec-2014, at 2:23 pm, ilya musayev <ilya.mailing.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here is the use case i have. End user needs to setup new cloudstack instance > with zones, secondary and primary stores, templates, global settings, etc... > he knows most of the configs will be similar to another env he has with > slight differences. > If there would be a way to dump this setup in its entirety, modify few > configs that are global/zone/cluster/host/network specific and use it as a > template to deploy other envs.
Sound like a configuration management tool you want. On a similar use case you may find Paul’s ansible module useful that uses cloudmonkey to deploy zone etc. with a specific configuration (zones, storage, template, global settings etc). I find ansible pleasant to work with and does not take a lot of time to learn it or use it. Personally to follow the unix philosophy I don’t want cloudmonkey to do many things. For such kind of use-cases that people have suggested before, I was thinking of refactoring cloudmonkey in such a way that they could write their own plugins for cloudmonkey (much like say nose), maybe for 5.4.0. I’m working on a test/CI tool to automate testing and deployment which you may find more useful, it’s going to be tool like cloudmonkey. I’ll keep you posted as soon as it can start working for me, I think you may find it interesting. The main issue for me is right now is that I started writing it in Go and while it’s great, it not as friendly as Python can be. Right now, tools/marvin has a deployDatacenter script in it that accepts a datacenter config json file and deploys a datacenter using that. Maybe you can try that? Though it does not have the import and export/deploy kind of feature you’re looking for. For example, this is what I use for doing local smoke tests: (there are other config files in setup/dev) python tools/marvin/marvin/deployDataCenter.py -i setup/dev/advanced.cfg Regards, Rohit Yadav Software Architect, ShapeBlue M. +91 88 262 30892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services IaaS Cloud Design & Build<http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> CSForge – rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> CloudStack Software Engineering<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-software-engineering/> CloudStack Infrastructure Support<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is a company incorporated in India and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil Consultoria Ltda is a company incorporated in Brasil and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue SA Pty Ltd is a company registered by The Republic of South Africa and is traded under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
