60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack

Chapter 7. Summary

What We Covered

We split this book in three parts. Part I covered installation concepts:

• We reviewed the basic requirements to compile CloudStack from source.
• We introduced the simulator, which can be used for testing.
• We introduced DevCloud, a CloudStack sandbox packaged as a VirtualBox image.
• We presented a new project based on Vagrant as an alternative to DevCloud.
• We went through a step-by-step installation from binaries on Ubuntu 14.04 with KVM.

Part II covered clients and API interfaces, including information on how to:

• Sign CloudStack API requests
• Get started with CloudMonkey, the CloudStack CLI
• Use Apache Libcloud
• Use the jclouds command-line interface
• Use CloStack for your Clojure projects
• Use StackerBee for Ruby developers
• Use EC2Stack to provide an EC2-compliant endpoint
• Use Python Boto with EC2Stack
• Use Eutester to write functional tests compatible with AWS EC2 zones
• Use gstack to provide a GCE-compliant endpoint
• Use rOCCI to provide a standard OCCI endpoint

Part III covered configuration management and advanced recipes, including information on how to:

• Get started with Veewee and Packer to create base images for local or cloud use
• Get started with Vagrant and the Vagrant CloudStack plug-in
• Get started with Ansible and how to use it with Vagrant to provision machines in the cloud
• Use the Chef Knife CloudStack plug-in, including bootstrapping instances with Hosted-Chef
• Use fluent to store CloudStack logs
• Get started with RiakCS and ...