cs-heat-plugin

OpenStack Heat plugin for CloudSigma

Installation

CloudSigma's Python Library

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
pip install cloudsigma

CentOS / RHEL

In order to install the CloudSigma module, you first need to install the EPEL repository, in order to install PIP. The below instructions are for RHEL 6.x / CentOS 6.x. Details for installing the repository, please visit the EPEL site.

yum install -y wget
wget http://mirrors.servercentral.net/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
yum install -y python-pip
pip install cloudsigma

Install The Plugin

1. Copy the file into the Heat plugin directory. For the plugin directiry see the configuration parameter plugin_dirs in /etc/heat/heat.conf on DevStack plugin_dirs=/usr/lib64/heat,/usr/lib/heat

2. Restart heat-api

Test the installation

Test Template

{
	"AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
	"Description": "CloudSigma test",
	"Parameters": 
	{
		"UserName": 
		{
			"Description": "CloudSigma username",
			"Type": "String"
		},

		"Password": 
		{
			"Description": "CloudSigma password",
			"Type": "String"
		},

		"CloneUUID": 
		{
			"Description": "Drive UUID to clone.",
			"Type": "String"
		}
		
	},

	"Resources": 
	{
		"TestServer": 
		{
			"Type": "CloudSigma::Compute::Instance",
			"Properties": 
			{
				"username": 
				{
					"Ref": "UserName"
				},

				"password": 
				{
					"Ref": "Password"
				},

				"description": "Created by HEAT",
				
				"drive_clone_uuid": 
				{
					"Ref": "CloneUUID"
				},

				"net_ip_uuids": 
				[
					"dhcp"
				]				
			}
		}
	},

	"Outputs": 
	{
		"Server IP": 
		{
			"Value": 
			{
				"Fn::GetAtt": 
				[
					"TestServer",
					"network_ip"
				]
			},

			"Description": "The IP of the server"
		}
	}
}

The CloneUUID parameter can be taken from the url of the Drive from the Marketplace in the CloudSigma management web app.

By default the datacenter that receives the calls is ZRH, this can be changed by the api_endpoint parameter. Use https://LOC.cloudsigma.com/api/2.0/ LOC can be one of zrh, lvs, wdc; new locations are added constantly.

Parameters

• api_endpoint
• username
• password
• instance_name
• mem_size
• cpu_mhz
• vnc_password
• meta
• description
• cloudinit_user_data
• ssh_public_key
• drive_clone_uuid
• drive_clone_resize
• drive_uuid
• net_ip_uuids
• net_vlan_uuids