Features/OpenNebula

Feature Name OpenNebula

OpenNebula is an Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization.

Summary

OpenNebula is an open-source cloud computing toolkit for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures. The OpenNebula toolkit manages a data center's virtual infrastructure to build private, public and hybrid IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) clouds.

Owner

• Name: Shawn Starr
• Email: [1]

• Name: Jaime Melis (upstream project)
• Email: [2]

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 17
• Last updated: (02/13/2012)
• Percentage of completion: 75%

* Convert existing rubygem packages (not reviewed) to use RSpec 2.x from 1.x. DONE! (DataMapper packages not going to be used)
* Convert existing rubygem packages (not reviewed) to use Ruby SIG packaging guidelines DONE! (rubygem-idn, rubygem-addressable, rubygem-stringex)

• Fix OpenNebula spec file to conform to Fedora standards

* Support SELinux Optional, it is only required if we want to harden oneadmin user account on Hypervisor, can be done in an update
* Submit rubygem packages for review

• Submit OpenNebula package for review (tmpfs/lock, systemd files also)
• Request Comps XML Changes - cloud-infrastructure - group

Detailed Description

OpenNebula is an Open Source framework for Data Center Virtualization. The project is designed to be scalable and offer compatibility with Amazon EC2 the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI).

It includes a core (oned) which orchestrates the deployment and management of Virtual Machines, and is managed via a CLI, a web service (Sunstone), and language specific bindings (Ruby, Java and Python).

It also features management of Virtual Data Centers.

Benefit to Fedora

Allow Fedora to have an integrable and extensible framework for Data Center Virtualization.

Scope

Get all dependencies into Fedora, and build a single package that provides OpenNebula. Upstream will test it.

How To Test

OpenNebula must be tested in a physical server, not a Virtual Machine, since it requires virtualization extensions to manage Virtual Machines. The physical server must have virtualization capabilites.

A typical OpenNebula installation requires external servers to handle virtualization, but for these purposes the same server can be used as:

• OpenNebula frontend: opennebula package + dependencies
• OpenNebula node: a hypervisor of choice. Libvirt + KVM recommended.

After installing the software, these tests should be run to validate the package:

• Manage a Virtual Machine with the CLI (following these instructions). This implies creating a network, registering a host, an image, etc.
• Use the graphical user interface (sunstone) to do the same thing.

User Experience

Fedora users will be provided with a CLI and a web-based GUI to manage VMs.

Dependencies

Package Name	Description	Package Review	Status
rubygem-addressable	Improved URI/URL handling	DONE!	maintained
rubygem-idn	Ruby Bindings for the GNU LibIDN library	DONE!	maintained
rubygem-extlib	Support library for DataMapper and Merb	In Review, not blocking	maintained
opennebula	OpenNebula cloud computing tool to manage distributed data center infrastructure	Not submitted	n/a
rubygem-stringex	Extensions to ruby String class	Not required only was for DataMapper	maintained
rubygem-xmlparser	Ruby bindings to the Expat XML parsing library	DONE!	package is obsolete use rubygem-nokogiri
rubygem-data_mapper	An Object/Relational Mapper for Ruby	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-aggregates	DataMapper plugin providing support for aggregates on collections	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-constraints	DataMapper plugin constraining relationships	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-core	An Object/Relational Mapper for Ruby - Core	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-migrations	DataMapper plugin for writing and specing migrations	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-validations	DataMapper plugin for performing validations on DM models and pure Ruby objects	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-types	DataMapper plugin providing extra data types	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-transactions	DataMapper plugin for transactions support for adapters	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-timestamps	DataMapper plugin for magical timestamps	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-serializer	DataMapper plugin for serializing Resources and Collections	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-sqlite-adapter	Sqlite Adapter for DataMapper	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-mysql-adapter	MySQL Adapter for DataMapper	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-dm-do-adapter	DataObjects Adapter for DataMapper	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-data_objects	A standard and simplified API for communicating with RDBMS from Ruby	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-do_mysql	Implements the DataObjects API for MySQL	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a
rubygem-do_sqlite3	Implements the DataObjects API for Sqlite3	Ruby RSpec 2.x not compatible	n/a

Contingency Plan

Delay the release to F18.

Documentation

• OpenNebula Official documentation.

Release Notes

• OpenNebula, the open-source cloud computing toolkit, will be available for the first time in Fedora 17.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/OpenNebula