cloudmesh-cmsd 4.2.9

A command called cmsd and foo for the cloudmesh shell

Cloudmesh cmsd

Cloudmesh cmsd is a command to run cloudmesh in a container regardless of the OS. Thus it is extremely easy to install and use.

cmsd will, however, use locally installed keys in ~/.ssh and cloud configurations stored in ~/.cloudmesh/cloudmesh.yaml. The YAML file is created upon the first call of cmsd if it is not available.

How to use cmsd

Important. You must have cms in debug off mode. to use the cmsd command

cms debug off

Prerequesites

• Docker
• python 3.8 or newer
• We strongly recommended using a python virtual environment
• Install cloudmesh-installer by following the documentation in the Cloudmesh manual

User instalation

Please use a python virtualenv as to not interfere with your system python. Activate your python venv. Next just call

$ pip install cloudmesh-cmsd

This will install a command cmsd in your environment that you can use as an in-place replacement for the cms command.

The containers are called

• cloudmesh-cms
• cloudmesh-mongo

Developer Source install

For developers, it can be installed in an easy fashion with

python3.8 -m venv ~/ENV3
source ~/ENV3/bin/activate
mkdir cm   
cd cm  
pip install cloudmesh-installer -U 
cloudmesh-installer git clone cmsd 
cloudmesh-installer git install cmsd   

Now you can use the command

cmsd help  
...
cmsd --setup

The source code is contained in

cloudmesh-cmsd

cmsd setup

To run cmsd, you would need a configuration directory that is mounted into the container. Let us call this CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR. Set CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR as an environment variable.

For Unix:

> export CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR=<path to CLOUDMESH_HOME_DIR>

For Windows:

> set CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR=<path to CLOUDMESH_HOME_DIR>

NOTE:

• CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR path must not have in any spaces.
• Clarification for Windows users:
• For example C:\.cloudmesh will work, so does C:\Users\gregor\.cloudmesh, but not C:\Users\gregor von Laszewski\.cloudmesh)
• Make sure that the drive of the CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR is granted file access in Docker settings

Run setup. If you are running setup on an empty CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR, you will be asked to key in some details that are required for the setup, such as profile details, Mongo DB credentials, etc.

> cmsd --setup 

Run the following command to see if the cloudmesh-cms-container is running! Additionally, check CLOUDMESH_CONFIG_DIR contains the cloudmesh.yaml file.

> cmsd --ps

Run the following to verify if the configurations you entered have been properly reflected in the cloudmesh.yaml file.

> cmsd config cat

cmsd usages

• To stop the containers, use cmsd --stop.
• To start/restart the containers, use cmsd --start.
• To clean the containers (remove stopped containers), use cmsd --clean.
• To log into the running cloudmesh-cms-container, use cmsd --shell.

MongoDB and Mongo client connections

cmsd is running an official MongoDB container from Docker Hub. Refer here.

Mongo server container is bound to 127.0.0.1:27071 port. Therefore you can use any Mongo client to explore the database by connecting to this port.

Example Usecase - Creating a vm in AWS

Create an AWS account and add the authentication information in the CLOUDMESH_HOME_DIR/cloudmesh.yaml file. Refer Cloudmesh Manual - AWS

Set cloud to aws

> cmsd set cloud=aws 

Set AWS key name

> cmsd set key=<key name> 

Boot a vm with the default config

>  cmsd vm boot 

Manual Page

Usage:
        cmsd --help
        cmsd --setup
        cmsd --clean
        cmsd --version
        cmsd --update
        cmsd --start
        cmsd --stop
        cmsd --ps
        cmsd --gui
        cmsd --shell
        cmsd COMMAND... [--refresh]
        cmsd


  This command passes the arguments to a docker container
  that runs cloudmesh.

  Arguments:
      COMMAND the commands we bass along

  Description:

    cmsd --help

        prints this manual page

    cmsd --setup

        downloads the source distribution, installs the image locally

    cmsd --clean

        removes the container form docker

    cmsd --version

        prints out the verison of cmsd and the version of the container

    cmsd --gui
        runs cloudmesh gui on the docker container

    cmsd --update

        gets a new container from dockerhub

    cmsd COMMAND

        The command will be executed within the container, just as in
        case of cms.

    cmsd

        When no command is specified cms will be run in interactive
        mode.