kishoreneelamegam/addon-knife

Knife plugin for Opennebula IaaS

knife plugin for opennebula

Description

This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap, and manage OpenNebula Virtual Machines

Development

To contribute bug patches or new features, you can use the github Pull Request model. It is assumed that code and documentation are contributed under the Apache License 2.0.

More info:

• How to Contribute
• Support: OpenNebula user mailing list
• Development: OpenNebula developers mailing list
• Issues Tracking: Github issues (https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-iscsi/issues)

Authors

• Leader: Thomas Alrin ([email protected])
• Kishore Kumar ([email protected])

Compatibility

This add-on is compatible with OpenNebula 4.4, 4.6. Tested extensively with 4.6 (EC2)

Requirements

Chef

Hosted Chef 11.0.x (or) On Premises Chef (http://www.getchef.com/chef/choose-your-version/) configured with a client.

For more information about Chef

Installation

To install the plugin you need to do the following in your workstation:

• gem install chef
• gem install opennebula
• gem install knife-opennebula

Configuration

Configuration can be done either of any three ways.

1. Configuring the ENV variables

• export OPENNEBULA_USERNAME="MY_OPENNEBULA_USERNAME"

• export OPENNEBULA_PASSWORD="MY_OPENNEBULA_PASSWORD"

• export OPENNEBULA_ENDPOINT="MY_OPENNEBULA_ENDPOINT"

2. Configuring knife.rb

• knife[:opennebula_username] = "MY_OPENNEBULA_USERNAME"

• knife[:opennebula_password] = "MY_OPENNEBULA_PASSWORD"

• knife[:opennebula_endpoint] = "MY_OPENNEBULA_ENDPOINT"

3. Configure while running commands by passing options

• -A or --username -> OPENNEBULA_USERNAME
• -K or --password -> OPENNEBULA_PASSWORD
• -e or --endpoint -> OPENNEBULA_ENDPOINT

Specific command options can be found by invoking the subcommand with a --help flag

Usage

This plugin provides the following Knife subcommands. Specific command options can be found by invoking the subcommand with a --help flag

To list the virtual resource templates

knife opennebula template list

To list the virual machines

knife opennebula server list

To create a virtual machine by instantiating a template

knife opennebula server create

To undeploy and delete a virtual machine

knife opennebula server delete SERVER_NAME

eg:

knife opennebula template list -A OPENNEBULA_USERNAME -K OPENNEBULA_USER_PASSWORD -e http://my-opennebula.com:2633/RPC2

knife opennebula server create -A OPENNEBULA_USERNAME -K OPENNEBULA_USER_PASSWORD -e http://my-opennebula.com:2633/RPC2 -t MY_TEMPLATE_NAME -i IDENTITY_FILE -x USER -r 'role[test]' -N TEST1 -n TEST1

knife opennebula server list -A OPENNEBULA_USERNAME -K OPENNEBULA_USER_PASSWORD -e http://my-opennebula.com:2633/RPC2

knife opennebula server delete SERVER_NAME -A OPENNEBULA_USERNAME -K OPENNEBULA_USER_PASSWORD -e http://my-opennebula.com:2633/RPC2 -P -N NODE_NAME