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Project description
slapgrid
slapgrid is a client of SLAPos. SLAPos provides support for deploying a SaaS system in a minute. Slapgrid allows you to easily deploy instances of softwares based on buildout profiles. For more informations about SLAP and SLAPos, please see the SLAP documentation.
Requirements
A working SLAP server with informations about your computer, in order to retrieve them.
As Vifib servers use IPv6 only, we strongly recommend an IPv6 enabled UNIX box.
For the same reasons, Python >= 2.6 with development headers is also strongly recommended (IPv6 support is not complete in previous releases).
For now, gcc and glibc development headers are required to build most software releases.
Concepts
Here are the fundamental concepts of slapgrid : A Software Release (SR) is just a software. A Computer Partition (CP) is an instance of a Software Release. Imagine you want to install with slapgrid some software and run it. You will have to install the software as a Software Release, and then instanciate it, i.e configuring it for your needs, as a Computer Partition.
How it works
When run, slapgrid will authenticate to the SLAP library with a computer_id and fetch the list of Software Releases to install or remove and Computer Partitions to start or stop. Then, it will process each Software Release, and each Computer Partition. It will also periodically send to SLAP the usage report of each Computer Partition.
Installation
With easy_install : $ easy_install slapgrid
With buildout (for developers): Checkout svn.erp5.org/repos/vifib/software_release/slapgrid.development, then read the README.txt.
slapgrid needs several directories to be created and configured before being able to run : a software releases directory, and an instances directory with configured computer partition directory(ies). You should create for each Computer Partition directory created a specific user and associate it with its Computer Partition directory. Each Computer Partition directory should belongs to this specific user, with permissions of 0750.
Usage
slapgrid needs several informations in order to run. You can specify them by adding arguments to the slapgrid command line, or by putting then in a configuration file. Beware : you need a valid computer resource on server side.
Examples
simple example : Just run slapgrid : $ slapgrid –instance-root /path/to/instance/root –software-root /path/to/software_root –master-url https://some.server/some.resource –computer-id my.computer.id
configuration file example : [slapgrid] instance_root = /path/to/instance/root software_root = /path/to/software/root master_url = https://slapos.server/slap_service computer_id = my.computer.id
then run slapgrid : $ slapgrid –configuration-file = path/to/configuration/file
Changelog
0.0.1dev (2011/02/24)
Initial version [Guillaume Bottex]
