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.
- Convert existing rubygem packages (not reviewed) to use Ruby SIG packaging guidelines
- Fix OpenNebula spec file to conform to Fedora standards
- Support SELinux
- 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 | Pending final reviews | maintained |
| rubygem-idn | Ruby Bindings for the GNU LibIDN library | DONE! | maintained |
| rubygem-extlib | Support library for DataMapper and Merb | In Review | maintained |
| rubygem-stringex | Extensions to ruby String class | In Review | maintained |
| DONE! | package is obsolete use rubygem-nokogiri | ||
| rubygem-data_mapper | An Object/Relational Mapper for Ruby | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-aggregates | DataMapper plugin providing support for aggregates on collections | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-constraints | DataMapper plugin constraining relationships | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-core | An Object/Relational Mapper for Ruby - Core | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-migrations | DataMapper plugin for writing and specing migrations | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-validations | DataMapper plugin for performing validations on DM models and pure Ruby objects | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-types | DataMapper plugin providing extra data types | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-transactions | DataMapper plugin for transactions support for adapters | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-timestamps | DataMapper plugin for magical timestamps | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-serializer | DataMapper plugin for serializing Resources and Collections | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-sqlite-adapter | Sqlite Adapter for DataMapper | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-mysql-adapter | MySQL Adapter for DataMapper | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-dm-do-adapter | DataObjects Adapter for DataMapper | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-data_objects | A standard and simplified API for communicating with RDBMS from Ruby | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-do_mysql | Implements the DataObjects API for MySQL | Not submitted | n/a |
| rubygem-do_sqlite3 | Implements the DataObjects API for Sqlite3 | Not submitted | n/a |
| opennebula | OpenNebula cloud computing tool to manage distributed data center infrastructure | Not submitted | n/a |
Contingency Plan
Delay the release to F18.
Documentation
Release Notes
- OpenNebula, the open-source cloud computing toolkit, will be available for the first time in Fedora 17.