humanitarian-openstack

  • Workshop Etherpad: use it to ask questions and share information.

  • Workshop Requirements: minimal requirements for running examples

  • [Reference and Reading Resources] (https://github.com/rackerlabs/humanitarian-openstack/blob/master/Reference%20and%20Reading%20Resources.md): find out more about python, OpenStack, GitHub, etc.

  • volunteers/

    • volunteer_packet.txt- Instructions for volunteers
  • usercases.txt - Example usecases to implement for building fault tolerant, scalable architectures

  • participants/

    • code/
    • keys/ - add your own public and private keys
    • deployment/ - Contains scripts to deploy webservers, databases, haproxy
    • libcloud.conf - Template file to include cloud provider details for libcloud
    • case-1.py - Implements code for usecase - 2 webservers with a load balancer and a database node
    • Ushahidi deployment instructions: step-by-step how to deploy Ushahidi on Rackspace cloud using orchestration templates.

    To run the code:

    1. Set credentials in libcloud.conf

    2. Create a venv - http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/linux/#virtualenv (optional)

    3. pip install -r participants/code/requirements.txt

    4. Run python case-1.py

    Build your own use cases and try them!