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This Lab as a Serice project aims to create on demand OPNFV resources to developers.
This project will automate the process, to the requested extent, of running an OPNFV
installer and creating an Openstack environment within OPNFV automatically and on demand.

To run, execute (from the project root):
    source/deploy.py

To run the Pharos dahsboard listener, which will continualy poll the dashboard and run deployments in the background:
    source/listen.py --config <conf/pharos.conf>


For convenience, there is a bash script source/stop.sh which will stop the dashboard listener and all related scripts.

BEFORE YOU CAN RUN:
you must first:
- Integrate FOG into your infrastructure
- Fill out the needed configuration files
- Populate the database with your available hosts


FOG:
Our OPNFV infrastructure uses a FOG server to pxe boot, read and write disk images, and otherwise control the hosts we have available for developers.
FOG is an open source project, and you can view it here: https://fogproject.org/
FOG provides an easy and scriptable way to completely wipe and write the disks of our hosts.
    This makes it quick and simple for us to restore our hosts to a known, clean state after a developer has released control of it.

To run the deploy script, you need to:
    Have a FOG master running
    Have your hosts registered to the FOG master
    Have a 'clean' disk image of for each installer / configuration you wish to support.
        - Fuel, Compass, and JOID all need different distros / versions to run properly
        - There is a mapping between images and their installers in the installer's config file
The FOG server must be reachable by whatever machine is running this LaaS software,
and have network access to PXE boot all of your hosted dev pods.


CONFIGURATION:
INSTALLERS#############################################################################################
-database               Path to the SQLite database for storing host information.
                            Should be the same for all installers in most cases.
-dhcp_log               Path to log file containing DHCP information for dev pods.
-dhcp_server            IP address or hostname of the DHCP server which contains the above log file
                            set to `null` if the same machine will be running dhcp and this project
-fog
--api_key               The FOG api key. You may instead give the path to a file containing the api key.
--server                The URL of the fog server.
                            ex: http://myServer.com/fog/
--user_key              The FOG api key specific to your user.
                            You may instead give the path to a secrets file containing the key.
--image_id              The id of the image FOG will use when this installer is requested.
-installer              The name of the installer, as seen from the dashboard.
                            `null` will match when no installer is selected, or the `None` installer is..
-logging_dir            The directory to create log files in.
                            Will create the dir if it does not already exist.
-scenario               The default scenario if one is not specified by the user.
                            NOTE:   automation of different scenarios are not currently supported.
                                    These values are silently ignored.
-hypervisor_config
--networks              Path to the config file used to define the virtual networks for this installer.
--vms                   Path to the config file used to define the virtual machines for this installer.
-inventory              Path to inventory file mapping dashboard host id's to FOG hostnames.
-vpn_config             Path to the vpn config file


#########################################################################################################

DOMAINS##################################################################################################
-jinja-template         Path to the jinja xml template used to create libvirt domain xml documents.
-domains                A list of domains. List as many as you want, but be cognizant of hardware limitations
--disk                  Path to the qcow2 disk image for this VM
--interfaces            List of interfaces for the vm
---name                 The name of the network or bridge that provides this interface
---type                 The source of the interface. Either 'bridge' or 'network' is valid, but the bridge
                            must already exist on the host.
--iso
---URL                  Where to fetch the ISO from
---location             Where to save the ISO to
---used                 Whether this host will use an iso as a boot drive
                            if `false`, the ISO will not be downloaded
--memory                Memory to allocate to the VM in KiB
--name                  libvirt name of VM
--vcpus                 How many vcpus to allocate to this host.
#########################################################################################################

NETWORKS#################################################################################################
-jinja-template         Path to jinja template used to create libvirt XML network documents
-networks               List of networks that will be created
--brAddr                ip address of the bridge on the host
--brName                name of the bridge on the host
--cidr                  cidr of the virtual network
--dhcp                  dhcp settingg
---rangeEnd             end of DHCP address range
---rangeStart           start of DHCP address range
---used                 Whether to enable dhcp for this network. Should probably be false.
--forward               Libvirt network forwarding settings
---type                 forwarding type. See libvirt documentation for possible types.
---used                 if `false`, the network is isolated.
--name                  Name of this network in Libvirt
--netmask               Netmask for this network.
########################################################################################################

PHAROS##################################################################################################
-dashboard              url of the dashboard. https://labs.opnfv.org is the public OPNFV dashboard
-database               path to database to store booking information.
                            Should be the same db as the host database in most cases
-default_configs        a mappping of installers and their configuration files.
-inventory              path to the inventory file
-logging_dir            Where the pharos dashboard listener should put log files.
-poling                 How many times a second the listener will poll the dashboard
-token                  Your paros api token. May also be a path to a file containing the token
#######################################################################################################

VPN####################################################################################################
NOTE: this all assumes you use LDAP authentication
-server                 Domain name of your vpn server
-authenticaion
--pass                  password for your 'admin' user. May also be a path to a secrets file
--user                  full dn of your 'admin' user
-directory
--root                  The lowest directory that this program will need to access
--user                  The directory where users are stored, relative to the given root dir
-user
--objects               A list of object classes that vpn users will belong to.
                            Most general class should be on top, and get more specific from there.
                            ex: -top, -inetOrgPerson because `top` is more general
-database               The booking database
-permanent_users        Users that you want to be persistent, even if they have no bookings active
                            ie: your admin users
                            All other users will be deleted when they have no mroe bookings
#######################################################################################################

INVENTORY##############################################################################################
This file is used to map the resource id's known by pharos to the hostnames known by FOG.
for example,
50: fog-machine-4
51: fog-machine-5
52: fog-virtualPod-5.1
#######################################################################################################
    
HOW IT WORKS:

0) lab resources are prepared and information is stored in the database
1) source/listen.py launches a background instance of pharos.py
    -pharos.py continually polls the dashboard for booking info, and stores it in the database
2) A known booking begins and pharos.py launches pod_manager.py
    - pod_manager is launched in a new process, so that the listener continues to poll the dashboard
      and multiple hosts can be provisioned at once
3) pod_manager uses FOG to image the host
4) if requested, pod_manager hands control to deployment_manager to install and deploy OPNFV
    - deployment_manager instantiates and calls the go() function of the given source/installers/installer subclass
5) a vpn user is created and random root password is given to the dev pod
##########The dashboard does not yet support the following actions#############
6) public ssh key of the user is fetched from the dashboard
7) user is automatically notified their pod is ready, and given all needed info


GENERAL NOTES:

resetDatabase.py relies on FOG to retrieve a list of all hosts available to developers

running:
    source/resetDatabase.py --both --config <CONFIG_FILE>
will create a database and populate it.
WARNING: This will delete existing information if run on a previously initialized database

To aid in visualization and understanding of the resulting topolgy after fully deploying OPNFV and Openstack in
a development pod, you may review the LaaS_Diagram in this directory.