Demo app aimed at showing how to consume the Nutanix v2 REST API using PHP.

• 2021.05.06 - ChrisRNutanix - Moved from nutanix/automation to nutanixdev/graphical-api-demo
• 2021.05.06 - ChrisRNutanix - Embedded Cloud-Init data vs requirement for cluster-hosted .yaml file
• 2018.04.24 - ChrisRNutanix - Updated with detailed setup instructions

• PHP >=5.5.9
• MySQL server as per standard Laravel app requirements (local or remote - doesn't matter as long as the web server can access)

• For reference only, the web-server.yaml in this repo
• An existing Linux VM that has the cloud-init package already installed (this is critical)
• To make parameter entry easy, you can click 'Need cluster details? Click here!' then 'Get Details'. Click the container name you want to use, the network UUID you want to use and the disk UUID you want to use. Please note the selected disk UUID must be one that has cloud-init already installed

The "Full VM Deployment" with Cloud-Init will also install the httpd web server. After deployment, the deployed VM's default web server pages can be accessed on the VM's primary IP address.

• Ensure PHP Composer is available on the target web server

• Ensure MySQL is available, including credentials to access it remotely

• Clone repo from this location

• Install Composer dependencies:

  composer install
  

• Run Composer update, to make sure packages are latest (not really required, but you never know)

  composer update
  

• Rename .env.example to .env

• Edit the .env file, paying particularly attention to the MySQL database connection parameters

• Generate the Laravel application key:

  php artisan key:generate
  

• Run the database migrations and make sure no database-related errors are shown during this step:

  php artisan migrate
  

• Seed the database and make sure no database-related errors are shown during this step:

  php artisan db:seed
  

• The application's storage directory needs to be world-writable (used for caching and temporary logs). Do this now, from the downloaded repo's root directory:

  chmod -R 0777 ./storage
  

• Run the demo using local PHP development server (recommended):

  php artisan serve
  

  Note: Deployment of a Laravel PHP application on Nginx or Apache (etc) is beyond the scope of this demo.

• Browse to http://localhost:8000

• Login with username [email protected] and password nutanix/4u

  Note: To change the default credentials, edit database/seeds/SentinelTableSeeder.php, starting on line 53

• Enter cluster details:

  • Cluster virtual IP or CVM IP address (this must be the cluster IP or CVM IP, not Prism Central)
  • Username
  • Password

• Select the required demo from Step 2

• Click 'Run Demo'

• Check out the results in Step 3

• After deployment, the deployed VM can be accessed via SSH with username nutanix and password nutanix/4u

moved to /nutanix/automation from https://github.com/digitalformula/nutanix-graphical-api-demo-2 (JonKohler 2018.04.06)