Cloud Orchestration Documentation

Nobus Cloud Orchestration

Nobus CloudOrchestration kit helps to create a human- and machine-accessible service for managing the entire lifecycle of infrastructure and applications within nobus cloud.

CloudOrchestration services enables you to launch multiple composite cloud applications based on templates in the form of text files that can be treated like code. While the native Heat template format is evolving, it also endeavours to provide compatibility with the AWS CloudFormation template format, so that many existing CloudFormation templates can be launched on Nobus Cloud. It also provides both a native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

Quickstart

Launch and manage stacks

CloudOrchestration Templates, enable creation of most nobus cloud resource types, such as instances, floating IP addresses, volumes, security groups, and users. Once created, the resources are referred to as stacks.

STEPS

Launch a stack

Log in to the dashboard.
Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.
On the Project tab, open the Orchestration tab and click Stacks category.
Click Launch Stack.

In the Select Template dialog box, specify the following values:

Template Source	Choose the source of the template from the list.
Template URL/File/Data	Depending on the source that you select, enter the URL, browse to the file location, or directly include the template.
Environment Source	Choose the source of the environment from the list. The environment files contain additional settings for the stack.
Environment File/Data	Depending on the source that you select, browse to the file location, directly include the environment.

Click Next.

In the Launch Stack dialog box, specify the following values:

Stack Name	Enter a name to identify the stack.
Creation Timeout (minutes)	Specify the number of minutes that can elapse before the launch of the stack times out.
Rollback On Failure	Select this check box if you want the service to roll back changes if the stack fails to launch.
Password for user “demo”	Specify the password that the default user uses when the stack is created.
DBUsername	Specify the name of the database user.
LinuxDistribution	Specify the Linux distribution that is used in the stack.
DBRootPassword	Specify the root password for the database.
KeyName	Specify the name of the key pair to use to log in to the stack.
DBName	Specify the name of the database.
DBPassword	Specify the password of the database.
InstanceType	Specify the flavor for the instance.

Click Launch to create a stack. The Stacks tab shows the stack.

After the stack is created, click on the stack name to see the following details:

Topology: The topology of the stack.
Overview: The parameters and details of the stack.
Resources: The resources used by the stack.
Events: The events related to the stack.
Template: The template for the stack.