A Puppet extension to manage cloud resources

[David C]

Hi everyone!

A couple of months ago I finished my master thesis. During that thesis I used Puppet to manage clouds as single resources. For instance

torque {'mycloud':

   head => ["155.210.XXX.AAA", "/var/tmp/dceresuela/lucid-tor1.img"],

   compute => ["/etc/puppet/modules/torque/files/compute-ips.txt",

               "/etc/puppet/modules/torque/files/compute-imgs.txt"],

   vm_domain => "/etc/puppet/modules/torque/files/mycloud-template.xml",

   pool => ["155.210.XXX.BBB"],

   ensure => running,

}

would create a TORQUE cloud to execute batch jobs. The idea is to manage clouds as single resources and not as a composition of machine instances and make Puppet manage that cloud. If, for instance, one machine should fail Puppet would create another instance to replace it. I also verified this approach with an AppScale cloud and a web cloud: load balancer, web servers and database server. I used KVM to support the virtual machines.

As I have finished the thesis and I don't know if I am going to work more on this in the near future I just wanted to let you know what I have done in case anyone is interested and wants to work with it (and believe me when I say there is a lot of work to be done). The code is hosted on github:

- https://github.com/dcere/pfc/  - the whole thesis: code, documentation, administrative documents, report...

- https://github.com/dcere/pfc-dev  - only code, ready to be cloned

so feel free to fork it and ask anything.

Thank you!

[Andy Parker]

Hi David,

This looks really intriguing! I know that at Puppet Labs there are a couple people playing around with ideas like this as well.

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