abadasoft/horizon

Chef Cookbook for OpenStack Horizon

Description

Installs the Openstack dashboard (codename: horizon) from packages.

http://nova.openstack.org

Requirements

Chef 0.10.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use).

Platforms

• Ubuntu-12.04
• Fedora-17

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are dependencies:

• apache2
• database
• mysql

Resources/Providers

None

Recipes

default

-includes recipe server

server

-includes recipes apache2, apache2:mod_wsgi, apache2:mod_rewrite, apache2:mod_ssl, mysql:client
-installs and configures the openstack dashboard package, sets up the horizon database schema/user, and installs an appropriate apache config/site file
-if ["horizon"]["theme"] = "Rackspace", will also install the Rackspace stylesheet, and grab the necessary branded jpegs
-uses chef search to discover details of where the database (default mysql) and keystone api are installed so we don't need to explicitly set them in our attributes file for this cookbook

Attributes

• horizon["db"]["name"] - name of horizon database

• horizon["db"]["username"] - username for horizon database access

• horizon["db"]["password"] - password for horizon database access

• horizon["use_ssl"] - toggle for using ssl with dashboard (default true)

• horizon["ssl"]["dir"] - directory where ssl certs are stored on this system

• horizon["ssl"]["cert"] - name to use when creating the ssl certificate

• horizon["ssl"]["key"] - name to use when creating the ssl key

• horizon["dash_path"] - base path for dashboard files (document root)

• horizon["wsgi_path"] - path for wsgi dir

• horizon{"theme"] = which theme to use for the dashboard. Supports "default" or "Rackspace"

Templates

• dash-site.erb - the apache config file for the dashboard vhost
• local_settings.py.erb - config file for the dashboard application

License and Author

Author:: Justin Shepherd ([email protected])
Author:: Jason Cannavale ([email protected])
Author:: Ron Pedde ([email protected])
Author:: Joseph Breu ([email protected])
Author:: William Kelly ([email protected])
Author:: Darren Birkett ([email protected])
Author:: Evan Callicoat ([email protected])

Copyright 2012, Rackspace US, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.