bosh-softlayer-tools

CLIs and other tools to ease in creating BOSH stemcells (light) for SoftLayer as well as manage pools of SoftLayer bare metal VM. All designed to work with the bosh-softlayer-cpi project.

Getting Started (*)

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TBD

Overview Presentations (*)

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TBD

Cloning and Building

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Clone this repo and build it. Using the following commands on a Linux or Mac OS X system:

$ mkdir -p bosh-softlayer-tools/src/cloudfoundry-community/bosh-softlayer-tools
$ export GOPATH=$(pwd)/bosh-softlayer-tools:$GOPATH
$ cd bosh-softlayer-tools/src/cloudfoundry-community/bosh-softlayer-tools
$ git clone https://cloudfoundry-community/bosh-softlayer-tools/bosh-softlayer-tools.git
$ cd bosh-softlayer-tools
$ ./bin/build
$ ./bin/test-unit
$ export [email protected]
$ export SL_API_KEY=your-softlayer-api-key
$ ./bin/test-integration

NOTE: if you get any dependency errors, then use go get path/to/dependency to get it, e.g., go get github.com/onsi/ginkgo and go get github.com/onsi/gomega

The executables output should now be located in: out/stemcells and out\bmp.

Running Tests

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The SoftLayer (SL) stemcells, and associated tests and binary distribution depend on you having a real SL account. Get one for free for one month here. From your SL account you can get an API key. Using your account name and API key you will need to set two environment variables: SL_USERNAME and SL_API_KEY. You can do so as follows:

$ export [email protected]
$ export SL_API_KEY=your-softlayer-api-key

You should run the tests to make sure all is well, do this with: $ ./bin/test-unit and $ ./bin/test-integration in your cloned repository. Please note that the $ ./bin/test-integration will spin up real SoftLayer virtual guests (VMs) and associated resources and will also delete them. This integration test may take up to 30 minutes (usually shorter)

The output should of $ ./bin/test-unit be similar to:

$ ./bin/build
$ ./bin/test-unit

 Cleaning build artifacts...

 Formatting packages...

 Integration Testing packages:
Will skip:
  ./integration
  [...]
Test Suite Passed

 Vetting packages for potential issues...

SWEET SUITE SUCCESS

Developing

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1. Check for existing stories on our public Tracker
2. Select an unstarted story and work on code for it
3. If the story you want to work on is not there then open an issue and ask for a new story to be created
4. Run go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/vet
5. Run go get github.com/xxx ... to install test dependencies (as you see errors)
6. Write a Ginkgo test.
7. Run bin/test and watch the test fail.
8. Make the test pass.
9. Submit a pull request.

Contributing

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• We gratefully acknowledge and thank the current contributors
• We welcome any and all contributions as Pull Requests (PR)
• We also welcome issues and bug report and new feature request. We will address as time permits
• Follow the steps above in Developing to get your system setup correctly
• Please make sure your PR is passing Travis before submitting
• Feel free to email me or the current collaborators if you have additional questions about contributions
• Before submitting your first PR, please read and follow steps in CONTRIBUTING.md

Managing dependencies

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• All dependencies managed via Godep. See Godeps/_workspace directory on master

Short godep Guide

• If you ever import a new package foo/bar (after you go get foo/bar, so that foo/bar is in $GOPATH), you can type godep save ./... to add it to the Godeps directory.

• To restore dependencies from the Godeps directory, simply use godep restore. restore is the opposite of save.

• If you ever remove a dependency or a link becomes deprecated, the easiest way is probably to remove your entire Godeps directory and run godep save ./... again, after making sure all your dependencies are in your $GOPATH. Don't manually edit Godeps.json!

• To update an existing dependency, you can use godep update foo/bar or godep update foo/... (where ... is a wildcard)

• The godep project readme is a pretty good resource: https://github.com/tools/godep

• Since GO1.5, dependencies is managed via Govendor. See vendor directory.

Current conventions

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• Basic Go conventions
• Strict TDD for any code added or changed
• Go fakes when needing to mock objects

(*) these items are in the works, we will remove the * once the section is complete.

NOTE: this BOSH light stemcell project is used to support the bosh-softlayer-cpi project. Like the CPI project, consider this code as prototype code.