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SlipStreamConnector-Okeanos

Source code for SlipStream ~Okeanos connector.

Status

The connector is in version 0.5.0-SNAPSHOT, based on SlipStrtream version 2.3.4-SNAPSHOT. We use Java 1.7.

Capability Status
Run Image
Run Deployment
Build Image #4
Volatile disk
VM resize (CPU/RAM)
VM extra disk attach/detach

Installation

Slipstream Server

In the Slipstream Server installation script, you must set

RELEASE=false

so that the snapshot repositories are picked up. The current version of the connector is 0.5.0-SNAPSHOT, as given in the pom.xml. After the SlipStream Server installation, just run

$ yum install slipstream-connector-okeanos
$ yum install slipstream-connector-okeanos-python

and then restart the SlipStream Server via

$ service slipstream restart

for the java code (the Java part of the connector) to take effect.

IaaS support libraries

In order for the ~Okeanos connector to be fully functional, you need to install the ~Okeanos python support library, named kamaki, in the machine that hosts the SlipStream Server.

$ pip install kamaki==0.13.3

Certified images [2014-09-18]

As of 2014-09-18, a VM image that is to be used as an Orchestrator must have preinstalled software in it. We call these images CELAR-certified. The rationale is to move ad-hoc and distribution-sensitive code out of the connector, in order to minimize complexity. For the time being, we provide a recipe for an Ubuntu-based such image here.

An Ubuntu public image with the above characteristics is already published in ~Okeanos production:

$ kamaki image info fe31fced-a3cf-49c6-b43b-f58f5235ba45
name: CELAR-Ubuntu-14.04-LTS
checksum: e3069718eaf4990fbc2805ce3d42dffa4bee5aed7f5ee664486a7f1dc455e217
updated-at: 2014-09-18 12:10:58
created-at: 2014-09-18 12:10:58
id: fe31fced-a3cf-49c6-b43b-f58f5235ba45
deleted-at: 
location: pithos://fc95f201-d5a9-46fa-8ede-b8983b420a40/images/CELAR-Ubuntu-14.04-LTS
is-public: True
owner: fc95f201-d5a9-46fa-8ede-b8983b420a40 ([email protected])
disk-format: diskdump
size: 2.15GiB
properties:
    PARTITION_TABLE: msdos
    OSFAMILY: linux
    DESCRIPTION: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
    OS: ubuntu
    ROOT_PARTITION: 1
    USERS: user
container-format: bare

Breaking change [2014-10-15]

The upcoming version 0.16 of Synnefo, the IaaS software that ~Okeanos is based on and which is needed to support the Add Extra Volatile Disk feature, introduces a breaking change in the kamaki software. This is reported and explained in the respective ticket The new SSL authentication handling breaks software using kamaki, opened 2014-10-15.

The breaking change is always present if kamaki is installed via pip and you will see the following or similar behavior in the command line:

$ kamaki image list
Unknown Error: [Errno 185090050] _ssl.c:330: error:0B084002:x509 certificate routines:X509_load_cert_crl_file:system lib

Please refer to the above ticket and its comments for an explanation and further pointers to documentation.

Workaround/Solution

By installing kamaki via pip the procedure in only manual and you need to set a path for the certificates. The command

$ kamaki config get ca_certs

will normally output

ca_certs not found

since no path has been automatically set by the installation procedure of kamaki.

In order to overcome this in my Mac dev box + Homebrew, I install openssl:

$ brew install openssl

which places the certificates in /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem and then:

$ kamaki config set ca_certs /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem

A similar procedure applies to other environments. After that we are back to normal:

$ kamaki config get ca_certs
/usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem

$ kamaki image list
fe31fced-a3cf-49c6-b43b-f58f5235ba45 CELAR-Ubuntu-14.04-LTS
    status: available
    container_format: bare
    disk_format: diskdump
    size: 2.15GiB
    
...

Please see celar-ubuntu-14.04-LTS for the correct procedure regarding our CELAR-certified Ubuntu VM image.

License

This software is under Apache v2