[ovirt-devel] Project Proposal - Vagrant provider

[Oved Ourfali]

Thanks for the proposal.
We're excited to add Vagrant into oVirt's portfolio of SDKs and
modules/providers!
Starting with the v4 ruby SDK makes sense to me.
CC-in some relevant guys to share their thoughts.

Thanks!
Oved


On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Marc Young <3vilpenguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Project Proposal - Vagrant Provider
>
> A vagrant provider for oVirt v4
>
> Abstract
>
> This will be a provider plugin for the Vagrant suite that allows
> command-line ease of virtual machine provisioning and lifecycle
> management.
>
> Proposal
>
> This Vagrant provider plugin will interface with the oVirt REST API
> (version 4 and higher) using the oVirt provided ruby SDK
> 'ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby'. This allows users to abstract the user
> interface and experience into a set of command line abilities to
> create, provision, destroy and manage the complete lifecycle of
> virtual machines. It also allows the use of external configuration
> management and configuration files themselves to be committed into
> code.
>
> Background
>
> I have previously forked and maintained the 'vagrant-ovirt' gem as
> 'vagrant-ovirt3' due to Gems requiring unique names. The original
> author has officially abandoned the project. For the last few years
> all code to maintain this project has been maintained by myself and a
> few ad-hoc github contributors. This provider interfaced directly with
> oVirt v3 using fog and rbovirt. The new project would be a fresh start
> using the oVirt provided ruby SDK to work directly with version 4.
>
> Rationale
>
> The trend in configuration management, operations, and devops has been
> to maintain as much of the development process as possible in terms of
> the virtual machines and hosts that they run on. With software like
> Terraform the tasks of creating the underlying infrastructure such as
> network rules, etc have had great success moving into 'Infrastructure
> as code'. The same company behind Terraform got their reputation from
> Vagrant which aims to utilize the same process for virtual machines
> themselves. The core software allows for standard commands such as
> 'up', 'provision', 'destroy' to be used across a provider framework. A
> provider for oVirt makes the process for managing VMs easier and able
> to be controlled through code and source control.
>
> Initial Goals
>
> The initial goal is to get the base steps of 'up', 'down' (halt), and
> 'destroy' to succeed using the oVirt provided ruby SDK for v4.
> Stretch/followup goals would be to ensure testability and alternate
> commands such as 'provision' and allow configuration management suites
> like puppet to work via 'userdata' (cloud-init).
>
> Current Status
>
> The version 3 of this software has been heavily utilized. The original
> fork known as 'vagrant-ovirt' has been abandoned with no plans to
> communicate or move forward. My upstream fork has had great success
> with nearly 4x the downloads from rubygems.org . Until my github fork
> has more 'stars' I cannot take over it completely so the gem was
> renamed 'vagrant-ovirt3'. This is also true for rubygems.org since
> gems are not namespaced, therefore could not be published without a
> unique name. The v4 provider is still pending my initial POC commit
> but there are no current barriers except initial oVirt hosting. The
> hosting of oVirt v3 for testing is a laptop on a UPS at my home, and
> v4 is also a different pc attached to a UPS.
>
> External Dependencies
>
> RHEVM/oVirt REST API - This provider must interact with the API itself
> to manage virtual machines.
>
> Initial Committers
>
> Marcus Young ( 3vilpenguin at gmail dot com )
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