athaller/landscapes.io

a management tool for AWS CloudFormation

landscapes.io

Designed to handle the most complicated DevOps deployments, landscapes.io is an AWS CloudFormation management tool built with the MEAN stack.

This project is in ALPHA and frequent updates should be expected.

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##Demo Coming soon... a live instance of landscapes.io will be available at http://demo.landscapes.io.

##Installation

landscapes.io is available through several channels...

git

$ git clone git://github.com/OpenWhere/landscapes.io.git

npm

$ npm install landscapes.io

bower

$ bower install landscapes.io

AWS AMI

coming soon!

landscapes.io depends depends on node.js, npm and Bower for installation.

Install client-side dependencies listed in bower.json.

$ bower install

Install backend dependencies listed in package.json.

$ npm install

Launch landscapes.io in development mode.

$ node server.js

You can log into landscapes.io using [email protected] and admin.

###MongoDB

landscapes.io requires MongoDB for data persistence. OOTB landscapes.io is configured to access a MongoDB server on localhost using the default port of 27017.

###ImageMagick

landscapes.io requires ImageMagick. This dependency may be installed as follows.

CentOS, RHEL and AmazonLinux

$ yum install ImageMagick

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick

OSX

$ brew install imagemagick

Windows

• Go to the Windows Binary Release page on the ImageMagick website and then download and install the appropriate version.

###AWS Service Account

landscapes.io requires an AWS IAM account with full access to AWS CloudFormation.

####I. Create an AWS Service Account

1. Sign into your AWS Management Console.
2. Navigate to the IAM Dashboard.
3. Go to the IAM Users page and click the Create New Users button.
4. In the Create User modal window, enter the name of your Service Account (e.g., landscapes-svc).
5. Make sure Generate an access key for each User is checked and then click the Create button.
6. The next modal window should state: Your 1 User(s) have been created successfully.
7. Click the Download Credentials button.
   • This "credentials.csv" file contains the Access Key Id and Secret Access Key you will need to configure landscapes.io.
8. Click the Close Window button.
9. At the IAM Users page, check the box for your new Service Account.
10. Select the Permissions tab and then click the Attach User Policy button.
11. In the Manage User Permissions modal window, select the Policy Generator radio button and click Select.
12. Set the Edit Permissions form to the following values:
    • Effect: Allow
    • AWS Service: AWS CloudFormation
    • Actions: All Actions Selected
13. Click the Add Statement button and then click Continue.
14. In the Set Permissions form click the Apply Policy button.

####II. Enter Your AWS Service Account Data into landscapes.io configuration

1. Open the "credentials.csv" file that you downloaded in step 7 above.
2. Open /lib/config/aws/config.json for editing.
3. Copy and paste your AWS Service Account's accessKeyId and secretAccessKey into config.json.
4. Save your changes to /lib/config/aws/config.json.

###Configuration

landscapes.io has three configuration modes:

1. $ NODE_ENV=production node server.js
2. $ NODE_ENV=test node server.js
3. node server.js

If NODE_ENV is not set, landscapes.io will default to the "development" configuration.

##Contributing

• The MongoDB / node.js / express server-side code lives in /lib.
• The AngularJS / Twitter Bootstrap client-side code is in /app.
• All tests are in /test. (We need more tests...)

1. Check for open issues or open a new issue to start a discussion around a bug or feature idea.
2. Fork the landscapes.io repository on Github and make your changes to the codebase
3. Write a test that shows the bug was fixed or the feature works as expected.
4. Send a pull request and add yourself to the Contributors list below.

##License

Copyright 2014 OpenWhere, 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.