Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Background
Currently, Deploy Instances/Virtual Machines(VMs) in Cloudstack requires to specify some offerings, template and other settings through the API (check the API here: https://cloudstack.apache.org/api/apidocs-4.16/apis/deployVirtualMachine.html) or the 'Instance Deployment Wizard' in the UI.
Requirement
Provision to user/operator to quick deploy an instance using a VM definition/profile. The VM definition/profile would hold the details of the template, offerings (including any custom values - size, iops), ssh keypair, instance group, affinity group and other settings (boot type, dynamic scaling, userdata, keyboard language, etc) that are required, and the underlying definition/profile id can be used to launch an instance. At the minimum, the definition should hold all the mandatory details for deploying an instance. With this, only the VM definitions/profiles (and other important options, with the associated billing details) can be exposed to the users for VM deployment, instead of the offerings and other VM options.
Need to add new APIs (and/or UI) support for the VM definition/profile CRUD operations, and support for definition in the deployVirtualMachine API.
Relevant Skills
- Java, MySQL
- Vue.js (for UI)
- Some knowledge of Virtualization and CloudStack
Difficulty
Medium
Potential Mentors
- Suresh Kumar Anaparti
- David Jumani
Project Scope/Duration
Medium / 175 hours
