Automation for VMware vCloud Director using Chef's knife-vcloud

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Plugin is available at https://github.com/opscode/knife-vcloud

Configuration used:

• CentOS 6.5
• Chef 11.8.2
• knife-vcloud 1.0.0

Following steps were used to complete the automation process:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/opscode/knife-vcloud.git
cd knife-vcloud/
bundle install
gem build knife-vcloud.gemspec
gem install knife-vcloud-1.0.0.gem
gem list | grep vcloud
- See if after entering the above command you see the gem knife-cloud. If yes the setup was successful. If no something went wrong.

cd ~./chef
vim knife.rb

- add the following details to the last line of this file (Note: username is @ i.e organisation name supplied) :
knife[:vcloud_username] = "username@orgname"
knife[:vcloud_password] = "##########"
knife[:vcloud_host] = "xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com"

[ESC]:wq

knife vcloud server list
- Should list all the existing servers

You can also create your own server using "knife vcloud server create" with additional parameters with caution.

e.g

knife vcloud server create --vcpus 2 -m 1024 -I TestServer -A 'roshan' -K "MyPassword" -r 'role[webserver]' --network myNetword-id

Good Luck!!

Reference Links:

• https://github.com/opscode/knife-vcloud
• http://blogs.clogeny.com/category/tutorials/
• http://www.getchef.com/blog/chefconf-talks/writing-a-knife-plugin-for-your-shiny-new-vmware-vcloud-director-based-cloud-chirag-jog/