Abdullah Sheneamer and Hiatham Ennajah Department of Computer Science University of Colorado at...

Abdullah Sheneamer and Hiatham Ennajah

Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Colorado at Colorado Springs

CS526 Semester Project Presentation

Introduction

BoxGrinder Objective

BoxGirnder Structure

Plugins

OpenStack

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BoxGrinder: is a set of tools used for building appliances (virtual machines) on various platforms (KVM, Xen, VMware, EC2).

History: Marek Goldmann 2010 Ruby tool


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BoxGrinder is creating appliances (images/virtual machines) from simple plain text Appliance Definition Files.

Appliance definition files are written in YAML

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Operating System plugins: generating base appliance. Platform plugins: creating converted base appliance. Delivery plugins: designed to deliver your new appliance.


There are three phases to create boxgrinder:

1- Preparing environment.

2- Installation.

3- Building applainces


The easiest way to obtain BoxGrinder Build is to simply add BoxGrinder repo to your environment and use yum.

“ yum install rubygem-boxgrinder-build”

Other systems:

“gem install boxgrinder-build “


Create appliances directory mkdir appliances command Example:

boxgrinder-build f14-basic.appl


Operating system plugins: Fedora Operating System Plugin Configuration: plugins: fedora: format: qcow2 # Disk format to use. Default: raw.

Fedora-14.appl file name: fedora-14 os: name: fedora version: 14 Fedora Operating System Plugin Usage: boxgrinder-build fedora-14.appl


Platform plugins:Platform plugins convert intermediary deliverables produced by the

operating system plugin into a selected platform

Supported OS: Fedora – all versions RHEL – all versions CentOS – all versions

EC2 Platform Plugin: Configuration: it’s not required

Ec2 Platform Plugin Usage: boxgrinder-build applince-name.appl –p ec2


Delivery plugins S3 Delivery Plugin: Three types: S3, cloudfront, ami S3 Delivery Plugin Configuration:

Bucket: Boxgrinder Account _number: 664170878440 Cert_file: same certificate created to log in to Midterm Key_file: PK created in Homework #4 for aws.amazon.com


EC2 AMI for applaince-name.appl:

“boxgrinder-build applaince-name.appl -p ec2 -d ami ”

EBS Delivery Plugin EBS Delivery Plugin Configuration

EBS-based AMI for applaince-name.appl: “boxgrinder-build applaince-name.appl -p ec2 -d ebs”


What is OpenStack?OpenStack is a collection of open source technologies delivering a massively scalable cloud operating system. Backed by Rackspace, NASA, Dell, Citrix, Cisco, Canonical and over 50 other organizations,

History: July 2010!

Why OpenStack: Control and Flexibility Industry Standard Proven Software Compatible and Connected Projects: 1.OpenStack Compute 2.OpenStack Object Storage 3.OpenStack Image Service04/20/23 Abdullah&Haitham 13

OpenStack Compute: Popular Use Cases: Service providers, IT departments, and

Processing big data General Key Features

Service providers and Enterprises

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OpenStack Image Service: OpenStack Image Service allows uploads of private and public

images in a variety of formats, including:

Raw Machine (kernel/ramdisk outside of image, a.k.a. AMI) VHD (Hyper-V), VDI (VirtualBox) qcow2 (Qemu/KVM) VMDK (VMWare), OVF (VMWare, others)

Popular Use Cases: Enterprises, ISVs Key Features


http://cs.uccs.edu/~cs526/cloudcomputing/intro.html

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BoxGrinder

http://boxgrinder.org/

http://www.openstack.org/index.php


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