Rohit,
Thanks, for response,
i'll give marvin a shot.
Regards
ilya
On 12/5/14, 1:42 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote:
Hi Ilya,
On 05-Dec-2014, at 2:23 pm, ilya musayev <[email protected]> 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,
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