Abdullah Sheneamer Hiatham Ennajah
Introduction BoxGrinder Objective BoxGirnder Structure Plugins OpenStack Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
BoxGrinder: is a set of tools used for building appliances (virtual machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, VMware, EC2). Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
BoxGrinder is creating appliances (images/virtual machines) from simple plain text Appliance Definition Files. Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
Operating System plugins Platform plugins Delivery plugins Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
There are three phases to create boxgrinder: 1- Preparing environment. 2- Installation. 3- Building applainces Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
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 “ Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
* Create appliances directory mkdir appliances command Example: boxgrinder-build f14-basic.appl Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
Operating system plugins: Fedora Operating System Plugin Configuration: plugins: fedora: format: Fedora-14.appl file name: fedora-14 os: name: fedora version: 14 Fedora Operating System Plugin Usage: boxgrinder-build fedora-14.appl Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
Platform plugins EC2 Platform Plugin Configuration: it’s not required Ec2 Platform Plugin Usage: boxgrinder-build applince-name.appl –p ec2 Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
Delivery plugins S3 Delivery Plugin Three types: S3, cloudfront, ami S3 Delivery Plugin Configuration Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
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” Abdullah&Haitham 05/02/11
OpenStack What is OpenStack? 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 Service
Opentack OpenStack Compute: Popular Use Cases General Key Features Service providers and Enterprises
OpenStack OpenStack Object Storage: Popular Use Cases Key Features Service Providers and Enterprises
OpenStack 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 Key Features
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