Adding Compute Resources

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#1

Is there a process for determining which Compute Resources The Foreman is
to support? I'd like to use Foreman for provisioning DigitalOcean<http://tinyurl.com/mtf7kfs> cloud
servers (which run on Red Hat KVM hypervisors); but info. in the manual<http://www.theforeman.org/manuals/1.2/index.html#5.2ComputeResources>is lacking. I did find some info. in the
wiki<Compute Resources - Foreman>,
but my background in this area is lacking even more than the non-existent
explanation in the manual … so I'm not really sure where to start or how
to proceed.

If anyone's willing to help me out, I'm more than willing to document
everything for future inclusion in the manual, wiki and/or a tutorial in
exchange.

-Pablo

#2

Compute Resources are Foreman's interface to the Fog library (fog.io). A
good place to start would be watching a previous deep-dive topic on the
this:

After that, hop on and chat to us on either the foreman-dev mailing list,
or the foreman-dev IRC channel on Freenode.

HTH,
Greg

··· On 13 August 2013 21:17, Pablo Carranza wrote:

Is there a process for determining which Compute Resources The Foreman is
to support? I’d like to use Foreman for provisioning DigitalOceanhttp://tinyurl.com/mtf7kfs cloud
servers (which run on Red Hat KVM hypervisors); but info. in the manualhttp://www.theforeman.org/manuals/1.2/index.html#5.2ComputeResourcesis lacking. I did find some info. in the
wikihttp://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Compute_Resources,
but my background in this area is lacking even more than the non-existent
explanation in the manual … so I’m not really sure where to start or how
to proceed.

#3

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the link to the video. I'll take a look at fog.io tomorrow, and
eventually reach out to you guys on foreman-dev. In the mean time, just
wanted to note (in case you had not seen it) that it appears as though some
work has already been started on incorporating DigitalOcean into fog:
https://github.com/fog/fog/blob/master/lib/fog/digitalocean/examples/getting_started.md

-Pablo

··· On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:42:10 PM UTC-5, Greg Sutcliffe wrote: > > ... >> > > Compute Resources are Foreman's interface to the Fog library (fog.io). A > good place to start would be watching a previous deep-dive topic on the > this: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgaQ_ekR2JA > > After that, hop on and chat to us on either the foreman-dev mailing list, > or the foreman-dev IRC channel on Freenode. > > HTH, > Greg >
#4

That'll save you some time then - you'll still need the Foreman side
implementation. As Fog is mostly about consistent interfaces to different
APIs, the Foreman side of the code is usually the easier bit though :wink:

Greg

··· On 14 August 2013 05:43, Pablo Carranza wrote:

Thanks for the link to the video. I’ll take a look at fog.io tomorrow,
and eventually reach out to you guys on foreman-dev. In the mean time, just
wanted to note (in case you had not seen it) that it appears as though some
work has already been started on incorporating DigitalOcean into fog:
https://github.com/fog/fog/blob/master/lib/fog/digitalocean/examples/getting_started.md

#5

> From: "Greg Sutcliffe" <greg.sutcliffe@gmail.com>
> To: "Foreman ." <foreman-users@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:41:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [foreman-users] Adding Compute Resources
>
>
> > Thanks for the link to the video. I'll take a look at fog.io tomorrow,
> > and eventually reach out to you guys on foreman-dev. In the mean time, just
> > wanted to note (in case you had not seen it) that it appears as though some
> > work has already been started on incorporating DigitalOcean into fog:
> > https://github.com/fog/fog/blob/master/lib/fog/digitalocean/examples/getting_started.md
> >
>
> That'll save you some time then - you'll still need the Foreman side
> implementation. As Fog is mostly about consistent interfaces to different
> APIs, the Foreman side of the code is usually the easier bit though :wink:

I started on a fog implementation - https://github.com/skottler/foreman/tree/digitalocean. There isn't too much work to do to get it finished so if you want to finish it up that'd be much appreciated.

··· ----- Original Message ----- > On 14 August 2013 05:43, Pablo Carranza wrote:

Greg

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#6

I saw on the fog homepage that fog is also able to handle Citrix XenServer (
https://github.com/fog/fog/tree/master/lib/fog/xenserver/examples). Does
this mean Foreman will be able to work with Citrix XenServer as well? Would
be nice … :wink:

Regards Thomas

··· 2013/8/14 Sam Kottler

​[…]
I started on a fog implementation -
https://github.com/skottler/foreman/tree/digitalocean. There isn’t too
much work to do to get it finished so if you want to finish it up that’d be
much appreciated.
​[…]

#7

Hey Sam,

I went ahead and forked your Fog/DigitalOcean branch on GitHub. Is there
anything specific you'd like me to start hacking away at?

-Pablo

··· On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Sam Kottler wrote: > > > I started on a fog implementation - > https://github.com/skottler/foreman/tree/digitalocean. There isn't too > much work to do to get it finished so if you want to finish it up that'd be > much appreciated. >
#8

Somebody needs to implement it in Foreman still, it's not automatic.
It's also possible I think to use XenServer via libvirt and a few people
have tried it but have hit problems. I'd love to see contributions for
this make it into Foreman, as it comes up quite a bit.

··· On 14/08/13 14:24, Thomas Bendler wrote: > 2013/8/14 Sam Kottler <skottler@redhat.com > > > [...] > I started on a fog implementation - > https://github.com/skottler/foreman/tree/digitalocean. There isn't > too much work to do to get it finished so if you want to finish it > up that'd be much appreciated. > [...] > > > I saw on the fog homepage that fog is also able to handle Citrix > XenServer > (https://github.com/fog/fog/tree/master/lib/fog/xenserver/examples). > Does this mean Foreman will be able to work with Citrix XenServer as > well? Would be nice ... ;)

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Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering

#9

Hello!
So… is this working fine for production?

Saludos!

··· El lunes, 9 de septiembre de 2013 10:19:51 UTC-4, Pablo Carranza escribió: > > Hey Sam, > > I went ahead and forked your Fog/DigitalOcean branch on GitHub. Is there > anything specific you'd like me to start hacking away at? > > -Pablo > > On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Sam Kottler wrote: >> >> >> I started on a fog implementation - >> https://github.com/skottler/foreman/tree/digitalocean. There isn't too >> much work to do to get it finished so if you want to finish it up that'd be >> much appreciated. >> >