Overmind

This project aims to provider a complete server provisioning and configuration management application.

The first version is a unified front-end to public and private clouds, custom server providers and dedicated hardware.

Features

• EC2 and Rackspace server provisioning. All clouds supported by libcloud will be supported given enough testing
• Provider Plugins: Any provider can be integrated by writing either a libcloud driver or an Overmind provisioning plugin
• Import any server into Overmind witht the "Dedicated Hardware" plugin
• Complete REST API for provider and nodes
• Authentication with three user roles

See the wiki for architectural info and to know more about the future direction of the project.

Installation

Requirements

• Python 2.6+
• Django 1.2+
• libcloud
• django-celery
• RabbitMQ (or alternative message queue supported by Celery)

Optional

• django-piston (for the REST API)
• IPy (optional, improved IP address validation for the "Dedicated Hardware" plugin)

Example installation on Debian/Ubuntu

• sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
• `sudo pip install django==1.3.2 httplib2 simplejson IPy django-celery apache-libcloud``

Install Overmind

• Download the last stable release from http://github.com/tobami/overmind/downloads and unpack it

• Create the DB by changing to the overmind/ directory and running:

    python manage.py syncdb
  

• For testing purposes start the celery server on a console

    python manage.py celeryd -l info
  

  and the django development server

    python manage.py runserver
  

Now you can visit the Overmind overview page on localhost:8000/overview