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.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:58 AM, David C <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-dev/-/gZ7tGHtzlOEJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
