Getting Started with CloudStack¶

CloudStack is one the most popular cloud projects. It's an open source project to build public and/or private clouds. You can use Salt Cloud to launch CloudStack instances.

Dependencies¶

Libcloud >= 0.13.2

Configuration¶

Using Salt for CloudStack, requires an API key and a secret key along with the API address endpoint information.

# Note: This example is for /etc/salt/cloud.providers or any file in the
# /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/ directory.

exoscale:
  driver: cloudstack
  host: api.exoscale.com
  path: /compute
  apikey: EXOAPIKEY
  secretkey: EXOSECRETKEYINYOURACCOUNT

Note

Changed in version 2015.8.0.

The provider parameter in cloud provider definitions was renamed to driver. This change was made to avoid confusion with the provider parameter that is used in cloud profile definitions. Cloud provider definitions now use driver to refer to the Salt cloud module that provides the underlying functionality to connect to a cloud host, while cloud profiles continue to use provider to refer to provider configurations that you define.

Profiles¶

Cloud Profiles¶

Set up an initial profile at /etc/salt/cloud.profiles or in the /etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/ directory:

exoscale-ubuntu:
  provider: exoscale-config
  image: Linux Ubuntu 18.04
  size: Small
  location: ch-gva-2
  ssh_username: ubuntu

Locations can be obtained using the --list-locations option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-locations exoscale-config
exoscale:
    ----------
    cloudstack:
        ----------
        ch-dk-2:
            ----------
            country:
                Unknown
            driver:
            id:
                91e5e9e4-c9ed-4b76-bee4-427004b3baf9
            name:
                ch-dk-2
        ch-gva-2:
            ----------
            country:
                Unknown
            driver:
            id:
                1128bd56-b4d9-4ac6-a7b9-c715b187ce11
            name:
                ch-gva-2

Sizes can be obtained using the --list-sizes option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-sizes exoscale
exoscale:
    ----------
    cloudstack:
        ----------
        Extra-large:
            ----------
            bandwidth:
                0
            disk:
                0
            driver:
            extra:
                ----------
                cpu:
                    4
            get_uuid:
            id:
                350dc5ea-fe6d-42ba-b6c0-efb8b75617ad
            name:
                Extra-large
            price:
                0
            ram:
                16384
            uuid:
                edb4cd4ae14bbf152d451b30c4b417ab095a5bfe
...SNIP...

Images can be obtained using the --list-images option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-images exoscale
exoscale:
    ----------
    cloudstack:
        ----------
        Linux CentOS 6.6 64-bit:
            ----------
            driver:
            extra:
                ----------
                displaytext:
                    Linux CentOS 6.6 64-bit 10G Disk (2014-12-01-bac8e0)
                format:
                    QCOW2
                hypervisor:
                    KVM
                os:
                    Other PV (64-bit)
                size:
                    10737418240
            get_uuid:
            id:
                aa69ae64-1ea9-40af-8824-c2c3344e8d7c
            name:
                Linux CentOS 6.6 64-bit
            uuid:
                f26b4f54ec8591abdb6b5feb3b58f720aa438fee
...SNIP...

CloudStack specific settings¶

securitygroup¶

New in version 2017.7.0.

You can specify a list of security groups (by name or id) that should be assigned to the VM:

exoscale:
  provider: cloudstack
  securitygroup:
    - default
    - salt-master