IM is a tool that deploys complex and customized virtual infrastructures on IaaS Cloud deployments (such as AWS, OpenStack, etc.). It eases the access and the usability of IaaS clouds by automating the VMI (Virtual Machine Image) selection, deployment, configuration, software installation, monitoring and update of the virtual infrastructure. It supports APIs from a large number of virtual platforms, making user applications cloud-agnostic. In addition it integrates a contextualization system to enable the installation and configuration of all the user required applications providing the user with a fully functional infrastructure.
Read the documentation and more at http://www.grycap.upv.es/im.
There is also an Infrastructure Manager YouTube reproduction list with a set of videos with demos of the functionality of the platform: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgPH186Qwh_37AMhEruhVKZSfoYpHkrUp.
Please acknowledge the use of this software in your scientific publications by including the following reference:
Miguel Caballer, Ignacio Blanquer, German Molto, and Carlos de Alfonso. "Dynamic management of virtual infrastructures". Journal of Grid Computing, Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 53-70, 2015, ISSN 1570-7873, DOI: 10.1007/s10723-014-9296-5.
The recommended option to use the Infrastructure Manager service is using the available docker image.
A Docker image named grycap/im
has been created to make easier the deployment of an IM service using the
default configuration. Information about this image can be found here: https://hub.docker.com/r/grycap/im/.
How to launch the IM service using docker::
$ sudo docker run -d -p 8899:8899 -p 8800:8800 --name im grycap/im
To make the IM data persistent you also have to specify a persistent location for the IM database using the IM_DATA_DB environment variable and adding a volume::
$ sudo docker run -d -p 8899:8899 -p 8800:8800 -v "/some_local_path/db:/db" -e IM_DATA_DB=/db/inf.dat --name im grycap/im
You can also specify an external MySQL server to store IM data using the IM_DATA_DB environment variable::
$ sudo docker run -d -p 8899:8899 -p 8800:8800 -e IM_DATA_DB=mysql://username:password@server/db_name --name im grycap/im
Or you can also add a volume with all the IM configuration::
$ sudo docker run -d -p 8899:8899 -p 8800:8800 -v "/some_local_path/im.cfg:/etc/im/im.cfg" --name im grycap/im
The IM service and web interface can be installed on top of Kubernetes using Helm.
How to install the IM chart:
First add the GRyCAP repo:
helm repo add grycap https://grycap.github.io/helm-charts/
Then install the IM chart (with Helm v2):
helm install --namespace=im --name=im grycap/IM
Then install the IM chart (with Helm v3):
kubectl create namespace im
helm install --namespace=im im grycap/IM
All the information about this chart is available at the IM chart README.
IM is based on Python, so Python 2.6 or higher runtime and standard library must be installed in the system.
If you use pip to install the IM, all the requisites will be installed. However, if you install IM from sources you should install:
-
The RADL parser (https://github.com/grycap/radl), available in pip as the
RADL
package. -
The paramiko ssh2 protocol library for python version 1.14 or later (http://www.lag.net/paramiko/), typically available as the
python-paramiko
package. -
The YAML library for Python, typically available as the
python-yaml
orPyYAML
package. -
The suds library for Python, typically available as the
python-suds
package. -
The Netaddr library for Python, typically available as the
python-netaddr
package. -
The Requests library for Python, typically available as the
python-requests
package. -
TOSCA parser library for Python, available as the
tosca-parser
package in pip. -
Ansible (http://www.ansibleworks.com/) to configure nodes in the infrastructures. In particular, Ansible 2.4+ must be installed. To ensure the functionality the following values must be set in the ansible.cfg file (usually found in /etc/ansible/):
[defaults]
transport = smart
host_key_checking = False
nocolor = 1
become_user = root
become_method = sudo
[paramiko_connection]
record_host_keys=False
[ssh_connection]
# Only in systems with OpenSSH support to ControlPersist
ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=900s -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
# In systems with older versions of OpenSSH (RHEL 6, CentOS 6, SLES 10 or SLES 11)
#ssh_args = -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
pipelining = True
The Bottle framework (http://bottlepy.org/) is used for the REST API.
It is typically available as the python-bottle
system package or bottle
pip package.
The CherryPy Web framework (http://www.cherrypy.org/), is needed for the REST API.
It is typically available as the python-cherrypy
or python-cherrypy3
system package
or CherryPy
pip package.
In newer versions (9.0 and later) the functionality has been moved to the cheroot
library
(https://github.com/cherrypy/cheroot) it can be installed using pip.
Apache-libcloud (http://libcloud.apache.org/) 2.0 or later is used in the
LibCloud, OpenStack and GCE connectors. It is typically available as the python-libcloud
system package or apache-libcloud
pip package.
Boto (http://boto.readthedocs.org) 2.29.0 or later is used as interface to
Amazon EC2. It is available as package named python-boto
in Debian based
distributions or boto
pip package. It can also be downloaded from boto GitHub repository (https://github.com/boto/boto).
Download the file and copy the boto subdirectory into the IM install path.
In case of using the a MySQL DB as the backend to store IM data. The Python interface to MySQL
must be installed, typically available as the package python-mysqldb
or MySQL-python
package.
In case of using Python 3 use the PyMySQL package, available as the package python3-pymysql
on
debian systems or PyMySQL
package in pip.
In case of using the a MongoDB as the backend to store IM data. The Python interface to MongoDB
must be installed, typically available as the package python-pymongo
package in most distributions
or pymongo
pip package.
In case of using the SSL secured version of the REST API pyOpenSSL (https://pyopenssl.org/) must be installed.
available as pyOpenSSL
package in pip.
Azure python SDK (https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/develop/python/) is used to connect with the Microsoft Azure platform. The easiest way is to install all the required packages with pip:
$ pip install msrest msrestazure azure-common azure-mgmt-storage azure-mgmt-compute azure-mgmt-network azure-mgmt-resource azure-mgmt-dns
The VMware vSphere API Python Bindings (https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi/) are needed by the vSphere
connector. It is available as the package pyvmomi
at the pip repository.
The IM provides a script to install the IM in one single step (using pip). You only need to execute the following command:
$ wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grycap/im/master/install.sh | bash
It works for the most recent version of the main Linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian). In case that you O.S. does not work with this install script see next sections.
First you need to install pip tool and some packages needed to compile some of the IM requirements. To install them in Debian and Ubuntu based distributions, do::
$ apt update
$ apt install gcc python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev python-pip sshpass python-pysqlite2
In Red Hat based distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux, Oracle Linux, Fedora, etc.), do:
$ yum install epel-release
$ yum install which gcc python-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel python-pip sshpass python-sqlite3dbm
Then you only have to call the install command of the pip tool with the IM package:
$ pip install IM
Pip will also install the, non installed, pre-requisites needed. So Ansible 2.4 or later will be installed in the system. Some of the optional packages are also installed please check if some of IM features that you need requires to install some of the packages of section OPTIONAL PACKAGES.
You must also remember to modify the ansible.cfg file setting as specified in the REQUISITES section.
This option is not recommended as in most of the cases some packages will not have the last version, so part of the IM functionality may not be available.
Download the RPM package from GitHub. Also remember to download the RPMs of the RADL and TOSCA parser packages from its corresponding GitHub repositories: RADL and TOSCA parser.
You must have the epel repository enabled:
$ yum install epel-release
Then install the downloaded RPMs:
$ yum localinstall IM-*.rpm RADL-*.rpm
Azure python SDK is not available in CentOS. So if you need the Azure plugin you have to manually install them using pip as shown in the OPTIONAL PACKAGES section.
Download the Deb package from GitHub. Also remember to download the Debs of the RADL and TOSCA parser packages from its corresponding GitHub repositories: RADL and TOSCA parser.
In Ubuntu 14.04 there are some requisites not available for the "trusty" version or are too old, so you have to manually install them manually. You can download it from their corresponding PPAs. But here you have some links:
- python-backports.ssl-match-hostname: download
- python-scp: download
- python-libcloud: download
- python-xmltodict: download
Also Azure python SDK is not available in Ubuntu 16.04. So if you need the Azure plugin you have to manually install them. You can download it from their corresponding PPAs. But here you have some links:
It is also recommended to configure the Ansible PPA to install the newest versions of Ansible (see Ansible installation):
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
$ sudo apt-get update
Put all the .deb files in the same directory and do::
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
$ sudo apt install -f -y
Select a proper path where the IM service will be installed (i.e. /usr/local/im, /opt/im or other). This path will be called IM_PATH
$ tar xvzf IM-X.XX.tar.gz
$ chown -R root:root IM-X.XX
$ mv IM-X.XX /usr/local
Finally you must copy (or link) $IM_PATH/scripts/im file to /etc/init.d directory.
$ ln -s /usr/local/im/scripts/im /etc/init.d/im
In case that you want the IM service to be started at boot time, you must execute the next set of commands:
On Debian Systems:
$ chkconfig im on
Or for newer systems like ubuntu 14.04:
$ sysv-rc-conf im on
On RedHat Systems:
$ update-rc.d im start 99 2 3 4 5 . stop 05 0 1 6 .
Or you can do it manually:
$ ln -s /etc/init.d/im /etc/rc2.d/S99im
$ ln -s /etc/init.d/im /etc/rc3.d/S99im
$ ln -s /etc/init.d/im /etc/rc5.d/S99im
$ ln -s /etc/init.d/im /etc/rc1.d/K05im
$ ln -s /etc/init.d/im /etc/rc6.d/K05im
Adjust the installation path by setting the IMDAEMON variable at /etc/init.d/im to the path where the IM im_service.py file is installed (e.g. /usr/local/im/im_service.py), or set the name of the script file (im_service.py) if the file is in the PATH (pip puts the im_service.py file in the PATH as default).
Check the parameters in $IM_PATH/etc/im.cfg or /etc/im/im.cfg. See IM Manual to get a full reference of the configuration variables.
Please pay attention to the next configuration variables, as they are the most important:
DATA_DB - must be set to the URL to access the database to store the IM data.
Be careful if you have two different instances of the IM service running in the same machine!!.
It can be a MySQL DB: mysql://username:password@server/db_name
,
SQLite: sqlite:///etc/im/inf.dat
or MongoDB: mongodb://username:password@server/db_name
,
Security is disabled by default. Please notice that someone with local network access can "sniff" the traffic and get the messages with the IM with the authorisation data with the cloud providers.
Security can be activated both in the XMLRPC and REST APIs. Setting this variables:
XMLRCP_SSL = True
or
REST_SSL = True
And then set the variables: XMLRCP_SSL_* or REST_SSL_* to your certificates paths.