Hi Folks, At the end of this week (27th) we will be at the mid term evaluation stage of the Google Summer of code programme.
It has been great working with the Cloudstack Community again. I'm very happy with the progress I've been making on my project and the feedback I've received from community members. ( http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/imduffy15/5662278724616192 ) At the moment I've essentially re-created a new devcloud environment using vagrant and chef. Full details of this can be found over on my projects github repo: https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014 This week I extended my current setup to introduce more network cards to the Hypervisor and "Management Server" This allows for deploying an advanced zone. The networking looks something like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqtBYwiIcAAX_7d.jpg:large If anybody is interested in giving it a go the project page ( https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014) contains full instructions. I had an issue with the default ttylinux template supplied. It has hard coded DNS servers within its resolv.conf which take precedence. For this reason I created a debian template. The template is fully reproducible using packer https://github.com/imduffy15/cloudstack-templates it exports as a OVA and you can then use qemu / vhd-util to convert it whatever way you want. I have uploaded one for XenServer https://github.com/imduffy15/cloudstack-templates/releases I think it would be neat if the community extended on something like this to offer templates for all major linux operating systems. In order to subvert security concerns it would be nice if a CI automatically generated/uploaded the images (Something like what we do with the SystemVMs) I've started work on extending the "management" VM to be a self contained simulator. I have completed some work on my cloudstack cookbook for installing all development dependencies so it should just be a case of git cloning from some attribute and building based on attribute parameters. All feedback welcome! Ian
