Deploying-Generic-Services-in-RHPDS.adoc

Deploying Generic Services in RHPDS

1. Check out the git repo at https://github.com/rut31337/order_svc

2. Order your services using order_svc.sh

   1. Flag -c is the catalog in RHPDS

   2. Flag -i is the catalog item name from the above catalog

      Note	Catalog and catalog item names should be in " if there are spaces in the name. You should specify the catalog and catalog item names exactly as they show up in the CloudForms GUI.

   3. Flag -u is your RHPDS generic login

      Important

      Do not use your personal RHPDS login for this purpose or the quota will stop you.

   4. Flag -w is the cloudforms URL (RHPDS in this example)

   5. Flag -t specifies the number of instances to deploy

   6. Flag -d allows you to set values that control the service deployment:

      1. Setting autostart=t will start the environments immediately upon creation and autostart=f will create environments but not start them (useful for staging a day ahead)

      2. Setting noemail=t is recommended as you do not want to send an email for every environment created (see obtaining GUIDs below)

./order_svc.sh -c "Workshops" -i "CloudForms 4.5 Workshop" \
 -u <generic_login> -w "https://rhpds.redhat.com" \
 -t 2 -d "autostart=t;noemail=t"

Note	More detailed documentation for order_svc and get_svcs is available in the above GIT repo.

Retrieving Lab GUIDs

1. Obtain your GUIDs using this (flags are similar to order_svc, see above):

   ./get_svcs.sh -c "Workshops" -i "CloudForms 4.5 Workshop" \
    -u <generic_login> -w "https://rhpds.redhat.com" \
    -o services.txt
   cat services.txt |cut -f5 -d- > guids.txt

Working With Generic Environments

Once you have your GUIDs, you can share one GUID per student/group of students. The lab instructions should be generic where each VM in the lab has a hostname of something-$GUID.rhpds.opentlc.com. The student need only replace $GUID with their assigned GUID.

Retiring Generic Services in RHPDS

You have two options to retire services in RHPDS:

• Allow them to self retire

  Note	If you choose this option, at least power all the services down in Ravello to save money.

or

• Use the standard service retirement in the RHPDS CloudForms interface.

  1. Services → My Services

  2. Select All

  3. Lifecycle → Retire

Important

Please do not delete the services in Ravello directly. You can power on and power off directly in Ravello if you want however.