miq-Utilities

ManageIQ Automate Domain of shared utilities to be used by other ManageIQ domains.

Table of Contents

• miq-Utilities
• Table of Contents
• Features
• Automate
• Automate StdLib
• Automate Settings
• Install
• Unit Testing
• Branches and Tags
• Contributors

Features

The high level features of this ManageIQ extension.

• Infrastructure
  • VM
  • set custom attributes
  • set tags
  • start
  • VMWare DRS cluster best fit with scope placement
  • VMWare customized folder placement
  • Providers / Clusters / Hosts
  • Dynamic dialog methods and instances for getting the LANs for the selected object and for tagging those LANs
  • Method for determining templated based on a selected location tag on providers and OS tag on templates
• Service
  • Thread safe (multiple simultaneous provisions) set VM names method with user provided prefix for use with service provisoning state machine
  • Infrastructure/VM/Provisioning/Naming/vmname implementation with support for variable suffix counter length and specified domain name
  • Provision complete email with hostname ands IPs
  • Provision new VM(s) to an existing service
  • Resize primary VM disk
  • Add additional disks to VM
• System
  • Dynamic Diaglog methods and instances for getting tags and tag categories
  • Methods for adding and removing tags from LANs
• Logging helpers

Automate

Information on the provided Automate.

ManageIQ Overrides

Instances where this domain overrides defaults provided in ManageIQ

• Infrastructure/VM/Provisioning/Email (Schema)
  • Override default schema values
• Infrastructure/VM/Provisioning/Email/MiqProvision* (Instances)
  • Override all instances to change method to MiqProvision_Update rather then event specific methods
• Infrastructure/VM/Provisioning/Naming/vmname (Method)
  • Override to add handling for fully qualified names with prefixes on the short name
• Infrastructure/VM/Provisioning/StateMachines/Methods/PostProvision (Instance)
  • Override common_meth1 to call process_telemetry_data
• Infrastructure/VM/Provisioning/StateMachines/ProvisionRequestApproval/Default (Instance)
  • Override max_vms to 10
• Infrastructure/VM/Provisioning/StateMachines/VMProvision_VM/update_provision_status (Method)
  • Override to send email on error update
  • Override to be able to send email on any update
  • Override to collect Telemetry data on every invocation based on current step name and ae_status_step
• Infrastructure/VM/Retirement/Email/* (Instances)
  • Override all instances attributes to be cleaner
• Infrastructure/VM/Retirement/Email/vm_retirement_emails (Method)
  • Override to make retirment email prettier
• Infrastructure/VM/Retirement/StateMachines/Methods/check_pre_retirement
  • Override to remove unknown from list of power states to stop looping for
• Infrastructure/VM/Retirement/StateMachines/Methods/check_removed_from_provider (Method)
  • Override to add debug loggin
• Service/Provisioning/Email/* (Instances)
  • Override all instances to change method1 to ServiceProvision_Update rather then event specific methods
• Service/Provisioning/StateMachines/ServiceProvision_Template/CatalogItemInitialization (Instance)
  • Override post5 step to call /Service/Provisioning/StateMachines/Methods/ProcessTelemetryData
• Service/Provisioning/StateMachines/ServiceProvision_Template/update_serviceprovision_status (Method)
  • Override to send email on error update
  • Override to be able to send email on any update
  • Override to collect Telemetry data on every invocation based on current step name and ae_status_step

Automate StdLib

This namespace serves as a "standard library" of CloudForms (ManageIQ) Automation code. The goal is for common methods to be collected here, and to be suitbale for inclusion as "Embedded Methods".

See: https://cloudformsblog.redhat.com/2018/04/17/embedded-methods/ for conceptual background.

Automate Settings

This project now includes a new mechanism for storing and accessing configuration settings. This has some advantages over traditional processes for configuration (instance variables or constants within a method). The settings can all be stored in one location, and being code, edited in something more featureful than a text box. The settings values can be any ruby data structure directly, and do not require juggling between yaml or json as commonly happens. Additionally, as the settings are grouped into global/default/region, then one can configure common and region-specific settings in a single place, for multi region deployments, useful for either a replication setup, or a dev/prod envionment split, pulling code from one git source.

/StdLib/Settings/settings provides the core lookup functionality. /StdLib/Settings/settingsstore holds setting values.

Settings over multiple Domains

To leverage your own custom settings, one can simply copy settings.rb up to a top priority domain, and edit it per norm. However, to isolate out ones own domain's settings, there is a mechanism ot merge in settings from different files.

Using the commented code in settings.rb as a template, create a new (ruby) class that extends RedHatConsulting_Utilities::StdLib::Core::Settings and has a PRIORITY and SETTINGS class values.

Copy our settings.rb to a high priority domain. Configure it to have embedded methods of all other settings.rb you wish to include (but not the one from this project). Ordered inclusion is impossible to guarantee with the UX currently, the PRIORITY setting, however, is honoured in merging the hashes. In practice, you are going to want to use non-overlapping key values, or manually reconcile the desired values in the settings.rb in the high priority domain.

Provision Dialogs

• miq_provision_redhat_dialogs_template_no_required_fields
  • a clone of miq_provision_redhat_dialogs_template only with all required fields set to not required. This is useful when calling create_provision_request and not wanting to pass in all fields and rather determining them later. For example determining the vlan bassed on placement rather then before calling create_provision_request.
• miq_provision_vmware_dialogs_template_no_required_fields.yaml
  • a clone of miq_provision_vmware_dialogs_template only with all required fields set to not required. This is useful when calling create_provision_request and not wanting to pass in all fields and rather determining them later. For example determining the vlan bassed on placement rather then before calling create_provision_request.

Install

0. Install dependencies
1. Automate -> Import/Export
2. Import Datastore via git
3. Git URL: https://github.com/rhtconsulting/miq-Utilities.git
4. Submit
5. Select Branch/Tag to synchronize with
6. Submit

Unit Testing

To run the test suite, you first require a functional ManageIQ development environment, specifically, able to run the test suite of https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq-content/ . Link in this project to that, per

manageiq-content/content/automate/RedHatConsulting_Utilities -> miq-Utilities/Automate/RedHatConsulting_Utilities manageiq-content/spec/content/automate/RedHatConsulting_Utilities -> miq-Utilities/UnitTests/spec/content/RedHatConsulting_Utilities manageiq-content/spec/factories/RedHatConsulting_Utilities -> miq-Utilities/UnitTests/spec/factories/RedHatConsulting_Utilities

and then run $ bundle exec rake or, e.g., $ bundle exec rspec --format documentation --pattern spec/content/automate/RedHatConsulting_Utilities/*/_spec.rb

Branches and Tags

The master branch of this repository will aim to support the current CloudForms release. If breaking changes for previous CloudForms versions are introduced in Master, version specific branches and tags will be created for those previous versions, as long as those releases are still supported by Red Hat. The version-specific release branches will be no longer be maintained once that version of CloudForms is end of life.

CloudForms Product Lifecycle Information:

• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/cloudforms

Contributors

https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/miq-Utilities/graphs/contributors