hostout.cloud 1.0a5

all your hosts are belong to us!!!

Installing hostout.cloud

Add the collective.hostout part to your development buildout. Using the extends option we add hostout.cloud to handle creating a host and hostout.ubuntu to bootstrap that host ready for deployment.

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = host1 helloworld
...
... [helloworld]
... recipe = zc.recipe.egg:scripts
... eggs = zc.recipe.egg
... initialization = import sys
...   main=lambda: sys.stdout.write('all your hosts are below to us!!!')
... entry-points = helloworld=__main__:main
...
... [host1]
... recipe = collective.hostout
... extends = hostout.cloud hostout.ubuntu
... hostsize - 256
... hostos = Ubuntu 9.10
... hosttype = rackspacecloud
... key = myaccount
... secret = myapikey
... """
... )

>>> print system('bin/buildout -N')
Installing host1.
Generated script '/sample-buildout/bin/hostout'.

Now with a single command everything is done for us

>>> print system('bin/hostout host1 deploy')

Our local environment >>> print system('bin/helloworld') all your hosts are below to us!!!

is now deployed to the cloud >>> print system('bin/hostout host1 run bin/helloworld') all your hosts are below to us!!!

Change your local code and just run deploy again >>> print system('bin/hostout host1 deploy')

Reboot your server >>> print system('bin/hostout host1 reboot')

and destroy it when you're done >>> print system('bin/hostout host1 destroy')

Supported Cloud providers

hostout.cloud uses libcloud_. See the libcloud_ site for the supported serviers and options for each.

Currently rackspace cloud and Ec2 are all thats tested.

Common options

hostname

Unique name to create the VM

hostsize

The desired RAM size in MB. You will get the closet VM with at least this size

Rackspace

key

your username

secret

your api password

hostos

the title of the OS as shown on the distributions selection list

Amazon Ec2

key

secret

api secret key

key_filename

path to your pem file

hostos

is set to the image title