Vagrant HP Provider

This is a Vagrant 1.1+ plugin that adds an HP provider to Vagrant, allowing Vagrant to control and provision machines on HP Cloud.

NOTE: This plugin requires Vagrant 1.1+,

Features

• Boot Servers on HP Cloud
• SSH into the instances.
• Provision the instances with any built-in Vagrant provisioner.
• Minimal synced folder support via rsync.

Usage

Install using standard Vagrant 1.1+ plugin installation methods. After installing, vagrant up and specify the hp provider. An example is shown below.

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-hp
...
$ vagrant up --provider=hp
...

Of course prior to doing this, you'll need to obtain an HP-compatible box file for Vagrant.

Quick Start

After installing the plugin (instructions above), the quickest way to get started is to actually use a dummy HP box and specify all the details manually within a config.vm.provider block. So first, add the dummy box using any name you want:

$ vagrant box add dummy https://github.com/mohitsethi/vagrant-hp/raw/master/dummy_hp.box
...

And then make a Vagrantfile that looks like the following, filling in your information where necessary.

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "dummy"

  config.vm.provider :hp do |rs|
    rs.access_key  = "<hp_access_key>"
    rs.secret_key = "<hp_secret_key>"
    rs.flavor   = "standard.xsmall"
    rs.tenant_id = "<hp_tenant_id>"
    rs.server_name = "<server_name>"
    rs.image    = "Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS Server 64-bit 20121026 (b)"
    rs.keypair_name = "<your_key_pair_name_on_hpcloud>"
    rs.ssh_private_key_path = "<private_key_location>"
    rs.ssh_username = "<ssh_username>"
    rs.availability_zone = "az1"
    # Security Groups defaults to ["default"]
    # rs.security_groups = ["group1", "group2"]
  end
end

And then run vagrant up --provider=hp.

This will start an Ubuntu 12.04 instance in the az1 availability zone within your HP Cloud account. And assuming your SSH information was filled in properly within your Vagrantfile, SSH and provisioning will work as well.

Note that normally a lot of this boilerplate is encoded within the box file, but the box file used for the quick start, the "dummy" box, has no preconfigured defaults.

Box Format

Every provider in Vagrant must introduce a custom box format. This provider introduces hp boxes. You can view an example box in the example_box/ directory. That directory also contains instructions on how to build a box.

The box format is basically just the required metadata.json file along with a Vagrantfile that does default settings for the provider-specific configuration for this provider.

Configuration

This provider exposes quite a few provider-specific configuration options:

• access_key - The access key for accessing HP Cloud
• image - The Image-id or Image-Name to boot, such as "Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS Server 64-bit 20121026 (b)"
• availability_zone - The availability zone to launch the server. If nil, it will use 'az1'.
• flavor - The type of flavor, such as "standard.xsmall"
• keypair_name - The name of the keypair to use to bootstrap image which support it.
• secret_key - The secret access key for accessing HP Cloud.
• ssh_private_key_path - The path to the SSH private key. This overrides config.ssh.private_key_path.
• ssh_username - The SSH username, which overrides config.ssh.username.
• server_name - The name of the server provisioned on HP Cloud.
• tenant_id - The tenant_id to launch the server.
• security_groups - An array of strings defining the security groups in which this VM is included.

These can be set like typical provider-specific configuration:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # ... other stuff

  config.vm.provider :hp do |rs|
    rs.access_key  = "<hp_access_key>"
    rs.secret_key = "<hp_secret_key>"
    rs.flavor   = "standard.xsmall"
    rs.tenant_id = "<hp_tenant_id>"
    rs.server_name = "<server_name>"
    rs.image    = "Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS Server 64-bit 20121026 (b)"
    rs.keypair_name = "<your_key_pair_name_on_hpcloud>"
    rs.ssh_private_key_path = "<private_key_location>"
    rs.ssh_username = "<ssh_username>"
    rs.availability_zone = "az1"
    # Security Groups defaults to ["default"]
    # rs.security_groups = ["group1", "group2"]
  end

end

Networks

Networking features in the form of config.vm.network are not supported with vagrant-hp, currently. If any of these are specified, Vagrant will emit a warning, but will otherwise boot the HP machine.

Synced Folders

There is minimal support for synced folders. Upon vagrant up, vagrant reload, and vagrant provision, the HP provider will use rsync (if available) to uni-directionally sync the folder to the remote machine over SSH.

This is good enough for all built-in Vagrant provisioners (shell, chef, and puppet) to work!

Development

To work on the vagrant-hp plugin, clone this repository out, and use Bundler to get the dependencies:

$ bundle

Once you have the dependencies, verify the unit tests pass with rake:

$ bundle exec rake

If those pass, you're ready to start developing the plugin. You can test the plugin without installing it into your Vagrant environment by just creating a Vagrantfile in the top level of this directory (it is gitignored) that uses it, and uses bundler to execute Vagrant:

$ bundle exec vagrant up --provider=hp