plumbery 0.3.1

Cloud automation at Dimension Data with Apache Libcloud

Infrastructure as code at Dimension Data with Apache Libcloud

• Documentation: Plumbery at ReadTheDocs

• Python package: Plumbery at PiPy

• Source code: Plumbery at GitHub

• Free software: Apache License (2.0)

Features

• Run from the command line, or as a python library

• Read fittings plan in YAML

• Use cloud API to create the network infrastructure, and to build nodes

• Create network domains and Ethernet networks

• Reserve public IPv4 addresses

• Manage network address translation rules

• Manage firewall rules

• All images in libraries are available to new nodes

• Add multiple network interfaces to nodes

• Add public IPv4 addresses to nodes

• Add monitoring to nodes

• Build all blueprints

• Build a blueprint across multiple locations

• Start all nodes

• Start nodes belonging to the same blueprint

• Polish Linux nodes for quick bootstrapping

• Build a full inventory of nodes that have been deployed

• Reflect fittings into a ready-to-use inventory for ansible

• Stop all nodes

• Stop nodes belonging to the same blueprint

• Destroy all nodes

• Destroy nodes belonging to the same blueprint

• Many demonstration scripts are provided

• You can extend plumbery with your own polishers, it has been designed for that

Contributors

• Bernard Paques [Dimension Data employee] (development lead)

• Anthony Shaw [Dimension Data employee]

• Olivier Grosjeanne [Dimension Data employee]

Credits

• Apache Libcloud

• netifaces

• PyYAML

• Cookiecutter

• cookiecutter-pypackage