Followup question: Does Trillian support KVM as the "Base" hypervisor instead of ESXi? If not, what would it take to enable this.
-Syed On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Syed Mushtaq <syed1.mush...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome job Paul. I was in such dire need of a tool like this, everything > I need to check if a feature works for different hardware, I have to spend > an obscene amount of time to set things up. This would really be > productivity booster for sure. > > -Syed > > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> As some of you may know, I have been working for some time on a project >> called Trillian. This started out as an internal project at $dayjob with >> the intentions of being able to quickly build environments to: >> >> >> a) Test new feature software builds (manually and via Marvin) >> >> b) Test community releases (manually and via Marvin) >> >> c) Replicate failure scenarios >> >> d) Evaluate new features >> >> To meet these and a number of other requirements I started Trillian. At >> Trillian's core are Ansible, CloudStack and vSphere virtualisation. Ansible >> takes a command line input and requests VM instances from CloudStack and >> then configures all of the hypervisor hosts and mgmt. servers, finally >> creating a zone which incorporates all of the components which were >> requested. >> >> The environments are built in projects and the accounts which are allowed >> access are specified on the commandline. >> >> The commandline arguments look like this: >> >> --extra-vars "env_name=myACSenv env_version=cs45 hvtype=x hv=2 >> xs_ver=xs65sp1 env_accounts=all pri=1 mgmt_os=6" >> >> There is a global file which holds the mapping of ACS version to relevant >> URLs or OS types to specific templates, however EVERY mapping can be >> overridden from commandline. >> >> --extra-vars "env_name=cs49-vmw55-pga env_version=cs49 mgmt_os=6 >> hvtype=v vmware_ver=55u3 hv=2 pri=2 env_accounts=all build_marvin=yes >> baseurl_cloudstack=http://10.2.0.4/shapeblue/cloudstack/testing/ >> mgmtsrv_template=Testc6Template" >> >> CloudStack deploys the virtualised hypervisor hosts and mgmt. servers as >> and when required - CloudStack mgmt. server, MySQL hosts Marvin host, >> vCenter server) onto the ESXi hosts. >> >> The output from each request is a bespoke, fully working virtualised >> CloudStack environment. >> >> >> >> The reason trillion came about in its current form is that at $dayjob we >> have to deal with lots of different types of environment, hypervisors and >> configurations. >> I know others have put a lot of work into similar tools, which I've used >> over the years and found useful but I needed some tooling that could also >> support vSphere hosts and Hyper-V and also be easy to connect to external >> integration points such as SolidFire storage, NetScalers, Cloudian S3 >> installations etc. as well as supporting multi-tenancy. >> >> For some time, it's been my intention to make this open source and >> generally available for this community. While I could have done this sooner >> but I held back a little as I wanted to make sure that it was well >> documented and could be easily deployed for a wide range of use-cases >> >> I'm happy to say I think we're just about there. >> Trillion is now available: >> https://github.com/shapeblue/Trillian >> >> Please feel free to use, comment, find bugs or come up with any ideas on >> how we can make this better. >> Rohit has integrated this with Jenkins and will be sharing how he has >> done this soon too. >> >> >> If people think this is useful for the community, I've got clearance from >> $dayjob to donate the work into ACS (if we want it). >> >> >> >> Marvin: "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed." >> Trillian: "Well, we have something that may take your mind off it." >> Marvin: "It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind." >> >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Paul Angus >> >> >> paul.an...@shapeblue.com >> www.shapeblue.com >> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK >> @shapeblue >> >> >> >> >
