Local Test Cloud

Summary

testcloud is a small tool to download and boot cloud images locally.

Owner

Name: Mike Ruckman
Email: roshi@fedoraproject.org
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 23
Last updated: (2014-01-20)
Tracker bug: #1191542

Detailed Description

testcloud was created because manually booting a cloud image locally can be a pain. It handles downloading the image, spoofing cloud-init metadata as well as providing an ssh_config to easily connect to the booted instance. What was usually several different steps to get an image to boot locally is now just one:

 testcloud instance create <name of instance> -u <url for qcow2 image>

It currently supports only the Fedora Cloud Base image, and work is ongoing to support the Atomic host image.

Benefit to Fedora

Provides a simple means for Fedora users and developers to easily:

Learn about Cloud (if you don't have access to a cloud provider)
Test Fedora Cloud releases
Locally test your cloud application
Lowers the barrier to get involved with Fedora cloud efforts

Scope

Proposal owners: Mike Ruckman, Kushal Das to implement proposed change

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)