[chef] Re: Re: Custom Cloud Plugin for Knife

[Jek Sirex < >]

Thanks for links!

But I still can't understand how to use knife-cloud framework. knife-openstack looks like copy-paste from knife-ec2 (and others) BUT there are no references from knife-openstack to knife-cloud plugin. knife-vcloud plugin looks same. 

For example, to implement this plugin I should do the following steps:

1. Implement gem fog-or2 (fog plugin for my cloud. `or2` is short name for this cloud)

2. Create empty gem knife-or2

3. Next, looks like I should copy-paste all from knife-ec2 and replace ec2 to or2

In the these steps knife-cloud missing. 

Or may be I missing something?

2014-05-26 14:03 GMT+03:00 Kaustubh Deorukhkar < " target="_blank"> >:

You can have a look at http://www.slideshare.net/Clogeny/writing-a-knife-cloud-plugin-for-your-shiny-vmware-vcloud-director

knife-cloud is a framework that can help reuse and structure your cloud plugin.
Here is knife-openstack implementation using knife-cloud (fog based) which can be a good reference.

If you want to write non-fog based implementation, please have a look at https://github.com/opscode/knife-cloud/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/cloud/service.rb

This should give you a feel of what needs to be implemented.

Thanks,
Kaustubh

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Jek Sirex < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ohai, Chefs!

I have my custom private cloud with custom API. I've implemented gem for talking to this api. Now I'm thinking about knife plugin:

knife mycloud server create ...

etc...

There is hard to find good guide how to do it. Should I copy-paste existing project, like https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2 or start somewhere else?

Also I found https://github.com/opscode/knife-cloud 

But it hasn't any documentation or examples about how to use it. Does anyone have such examples?

Should I first extend gem fog with my cloud?

Thanks!

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Yauhen