PoolParty

poolpartyrb.com

DESCRIPTION:

PoolParty makes cloud provisioning and management easy. PoolParty provides a unified interface for provisioning, management and cloud life-cycle on many different cloud providers, such as EC2 and vmware.

Code your cloud!

SYNOPSIS:

PoolParty is written with the intention of being as application-agnostic as possible. It installs only the basic required software to glue the cloud together on the instances as listed below.

Quickstart

For instance, to start a basic cloud, let’s write one:

  pool "demo" do
    cloud "app" do
      using :ec2
      instances 1
      keypair "cloud_demo"
    end
  end

Simply by issuing the command:

  cloud start

The app cloud in the demo pool will be started, bootstrapped and provisioned to your liking. If the platform is not specified, then it’s assumed to be ubuntu. However, if a node is running, then PoolParty will introspect the node and determine the operating system. This can be specified in the clouds.rb.

There are a number of commands PoolParty offers to interact with your cloud. They include:

• cloud start
• cloud terminate
• cloud bootstrap
• cloud configure
• cloud compile
• cloud console
• cloud expand
• cloud contract
• cloud list
• cloud show
• cloud ssh

There is also a helper installer script. This is an easy way to get started bootstrapping your environment:

• install-poolparty

We can change the cloud provider simply by changing the using line. For instance:

  pool "demo" do
    cloud "app" do
      #...
      using :rackspace # coming soon
      #...

Clouds are distinguished by keypairs, so to create multiple clouds, create a new keypair. For instance:

  pool "demo" do
    cloud "app" do
      keypair "demo_app"
      #...
    end
    cloud "db" do
      keypair "demo_db"
      #...
    end
  end

Extending

To add a cloud_provider, there are four methods that need to be implemented. Simply sublcass the CloudProviders module and require it in your clouds.rb (or commit it back to PoolParty). Those four methods are:

• run_instance
• terminate_instance
• describe_instances
• describe_instance

That’s it!

Each resource is documented in the code and more documentation can be found at the site: <a href="http://poolpartyrb.comhttp://poolpartyrb.com>.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ruby

INSTALL:

sudo gem install auser-poolparty

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 Ari Lerner, CloudTeam

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