Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Plugin
Late last year, Oracle announced the availability of their Bare Metal Cloud IAAS to the world. The Bare Metal Cloud (BMC) combines physical instances combined with a fully virtualized networking infrastructure that emulates a traditional datacenter, but with the convenience and agility that infrastructure as a service provides. With non-virtualized compute and microsecond inter-host network latency, the BMC is particularly suited to demanding high performance workloads. For the latest on the bare metal cloud, see the Oracle website. This post covers the Cloudify integration with the Oracle BMC.
Like all IAAS plugins for Cloudify, the BMC plugin maps nouns in the underlying IAAS API to TOSCA types, and the verbs get mapped to orchestrator lifecycle events (e.g. "create" and "configure"). The current version of the BMC plugin only addresses compute and networking domains of the BMC SDK. The plugin provides the ability to orchestrate instances (both bare metal and virtual), along with related networking components such as networks, subnets, security, and internet gateways.
The following components and relationships are supported:
Represents a compute node, either bare metal or virtual (based on the "instance_shape") property. It accepts configuration properties such as image_id, instance_shape, compartment_id, and availability_domain. After the install workflow is complete, the instance will have attributes public_ip and private_ip. It is connected to a subnet (described below), via the cloudify.oraclebmc.relationships.instance_connected_to_subnet relationship.
This node type represents a network. The main unique configuration property is the network cidr_block, from which subnets are carved out.
This node type represents a subnet network. This node is configured with a cidr_block and security_list, among other properties. cidr_block represents the portion of the VNC network CIDR block, and the security_list is a list of firewall rules. It is associated with a target network via the cloudify.oraclebmc.relationships.subnet_in_network relationship.
This node represents an internet gateway. It is configured with a list of routing rules, which amounts to an internet firewall. It is associated with a target network via the cloudify.oraclebmc.relationships.gateway_connected_to_network relationship.
An example blueprint can be found in the Cloudify Examples repo.
When used with the Cloudify Manager, the plugin must be installed via the cfy plugins upload method. A wgn package is included in the repo.