Project Razor

Introduction

Project Razor is a power control, provisioning, and management application designed to deploy both bare-metal and virtual computer resources. Razor provides broker plugins for integration with third party such as Puppet.

This is a 0.x release, so the CLI and API is still in flux and may change. Make sure you read the release notes before upgrading

Authors

Installation

Razor Overview: Nickapedia.com
Razor Session from PuppetConf 2012: Youtube

Follow wiki documentation for installation process:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor/wiki/installation

Razor MicroKernel

The Razor MicroKernel project: https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor-Microkernel
The Razor MK images are officially available at: https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor-Microkernel/downloads

Environment Variables

$RAZOR_HOME: Razor installation root directory.
$RAZOR_RSPEC_WEBPATH: optional rspec HTML output path.
$RAZOR_LOG_PATH: optional Razor log directory (default: ${RAZOR_HOME}/log).

$RAZOR_LOG_LEVEL: optional Razor log output verbosity level:

  0 = Debug
  1 = Info
  2 = Warn
  3 = Error (default)
  4 = Fatal
  5 = Unknown

Directory structure

./bin - control scripts
./conf - configuration YAML files
./doc - Documentation (YARD)
./images - default images directory
./install - installation bits
./lib - root library folder
./test_scripts - testing scripts
./rspec - unit tests (RSpec)

Starting services

Start Razor API with:

cd $RAZOR_HOME/bin
./razor_daemon.rb start

License

See LICENSE file.

Reference

Razor Overview: Nickapedia.com
Puppet Labs Razor Module:Puppetlabs.com

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