[Open stack] heat + docker

Docker plugin for HeatOrchestrate containers with OpenStack Heat

by Sam Alba@sam_alba

[email protected]

Oct 2013

What is Heat?

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“Heat implements an orchestration engine to

launch multiple composite cloud applications

based on templates.”Source: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat

Docker in OpenStack Havana

Oct 2013

Nova supports Docker as a new hypervisor starting with the Havana release

➔ Deploy containers instead of VM with the same API (Nova)

Why using Heat directly?

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● This is not a replacement to the Nova driver!● It allows to use the whole Docker API from a Heat

template

Resources:

Blog:

Type: OS::Heat::Docker

Properties:

Image: samalba/wordpress

Env:

- DB_PORT=42

How to use it?

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1. Install Heat with DevStack: https://wiki.openstack.

org/wiki/Heat/GettingStartedUsingDevstack

2. Install the Docker plugin

# Clone the repos

git clone [email protected]:dotcloud/openstack-heat-docker.git

# Link the plugin so Heat can find it

ln -sf $(cd openstack-heat-docker/plugin; pwd) /usr/lib/heat/docker

Demo time!Example with Wordpress+MySQL

Demo time!

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Horizon UI > Orchestration > Stacks

Demo time!

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Configure the Stack (parameters of the Heat template)

Demo time!

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Launch it

Demo time!

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Run it yourself!

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Project home page:https://github.com/dotcloud/openstack-heat-docker

… and please ask for help:#docker on irc.freenode.org

Questions?

Oct 2013