Writing a Plugin for Apache CloudStack
- 1. Writing CloudStack Plugins by Alex Huang
- 2. A little bit about me • Cloud.Com Founding Engineer • Software architect for CloudPlatform • Responsible for overall architecture, performance, and scalability • Committer and PPMC member • BS from UC Berkeley and MS from Stanford
- 3. Extending CloudStack Networking 2. prepare (Network, Nic, DeployDestination, VmInfo) 1. prepare (part of start vm) Network Network Element PluggableService Manager Device Configuration MyDnsDeviceSer Admin API (CRUD) vice DnsService 3. addDnsRecord(ip, fqdn) Demonstrates one way to MyDnsDeviceMa MySQL MyDnsElement inform an external DNS nager server when an instance starts. AgentManag 4.Enqueue AddDnsRecord er Queue Classes shaded blue form a plugin / service bundle to integrate an external DNS MyDnsDeviceRes server. Clients of the ServerResource ource instance can then use DNS names to access the 5.API call to Dns Device instance.
- 4. Outline • Setup developer environment • Checking out source code • Setup devCloud • Setup a new plugin project • Write code • Write a unit test • Testing your new plugin • Potential Problems
- 5. Tools Needed • JDK • MySQL • Maven • Eclipse – M2e – Pydev – EGit • Cygwin if on Windows
- 6. The future needs you! Project web site: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html Mailing lists: [email protected] [email protected] IRC: #CloudStack on irc.freenode.net
- 7. Thank You! Alex Huang Email: [email protected] Blog: http://xueyuan.github.com/