| Description |
|---|
This package of workflows will assist in the usage of Puppet Labs Razor. This is the first release, there maybe bugs. I would appreciate any feedback and suggestions. It will install Razor and a Node.js project - razorimage. Razor is currently missing a REST interface for the Image slice, razorimage implements this. It also provides a web interface to upload an ISO image, which is available at http://IP_ADDRESS:3000/. Note: Web programming is not my expertise, I used multiple examples to implement the web portion of this, sources below. |
| Requirements |
|---|
| vCenter Orchestrator 5.x |
| REST Plug-in |
| SSH Plug-in |
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (tested with this distro only) |
| Workflow | Description |
|---|---|
| Installation | This workflow uses SSH to connect to your Ubuntu server. It will perform the following actions:
Security Warning - I used "echo password |sudo -S" in order to execute the commands that require root. If anyone has a better suggestion please let me know. |
| Get Images | Retrieves the Images UUID from razorimage http CRUD interface, stores in Configuration Element (razor, images) |
| Add Model | Retrieves the model template, creates the presentation and adds the model to razor |
| Add Policy | Retrieves the tags from the nodes, retrieves the models, adds the policy |
| Actions | Description |
|---|---|
| waitForRazorPostInstall | Wait for the active_models to state to be postinstall. The idea here was once the active_models were in postinstall I would create another action to monitor the status of a ESXi available port using Telnet. Once it was available add the host into vCenter or even add to vCO to configure (with vCO 5.1 U1) further. |
| Sources |
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virtuallyGhetto - How to deploy ESXi 5 using Razor and Puppet Asynchronous file uploading using Express and Node.js |