[one-users] OpenNebula Foreman Integration

[Jon]

Hey Sebastian,

This looks awesome. Does it matter what configuration management engine I'm
using? I've been experimenting with The Foreman and Chef and this looks
like the exact direction my brain was headed.

Thanks!
Jon A
On May 16, 2014 2:55 AM, "Sebastian Saemann" <Sebastian.Saemann at netways.de>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> we at Netways implemented a compute resource functionality for the foreman
> project. It can be used to deploy virtual machines within OpenNebula using
> the foreman interface which configures DNS,DHCP,PXE,Puppet and so on as
> well. The functionality is covered by using and extending the ruby fog
> library. The pull requests can be found on github:
>
> https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/1443
> https://github.com/fog/fog/pull/2919
>
> a quick demo can be found here:
>
> https://blog.netways.de/2014/05/13/videoblog-unser-foreman-opennebula-setup/
>
> The idea is to create a blank (empty image) VM via Foreman in OpenNebula,
> which then will be fully deployed from scratch. Installation will be done
> with a PXE-Boot and Kickstart/Preseed installation. Additional software on
> top like Apache and stuff like that will be installed and configured with
> puppet. Everything can be chosen via the foreman interface which interacts
> with all infrastructure elements. Also it would be possible to use
> contextualized prepared images, but we did not implemented it yet.
>
> We are using this feature for some days right now in production and it is
> really cool. It definitely will and should not replace the sunstone
> interface, its just a interaction via the RPC API of OpenNebula.
>
> Please let me know what you guys think of this approach. Every feedback is
> very welcome and contribution or help for getting it pushed to the master
> branch of the projects (foreman, fog) is of course appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Sebastian Saemann
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>
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