From Wikipedia: Forseti (old norse "the presiding one") is an Æsir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology. He is generally identified with Fosite, a god of the Frisians.
Forseti is a two-in-one utility:
- A CLI tool to manage your AWS autoscaling groups, policies, etc. It allows you to easily deploy your code in AWS using your preferred strategy defined as a deployer. A deployer is a class that, using previous models, defines a deployment strategy. More on this later.
- A set of classes wrapping boto, provinding friendly high level operations that allow you to easily do common administration operations.
Forseti is devops agnostic in the sense that it all their commands can be plugged with any orquestration tool you use, in ticketea we've used Chef, Puppet and Ansible in conjuction with it.
We recommend you to use forseti inside a virtualenv.
pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
mkvirtualenv forseti
workon forsetiTo install forseti simply do:
python setup.py installAfter this you will have forseti's CLI available in your path, but before using it, you need to set it up.
As forseti depends on boto, you will have to configure it. Create a ~/.boto or /etc/boto.cfg file with the following
[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY
# Choose another region if you're using it.
ec2_region_name = eu-west-1
ec2_region_endpoint = ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
# Choose another region if you're using it.
elb_region_name = eu-west-1
elb_region_endpoint = elasticloadbalancing.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
# Choose another region if you're using it.
cloudwatch_region_name = eu-west-1
cloudwatch_region_endpoint = monitoring.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
# Choose another region if you're using it.
sns_region_name = eu-west-1
sns_region_endpoint = sns.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
In order to use forsetì with the CLI you will need to create a .forseti/config.json file, you can use default-example.json file as a base. But first you may need information on how Forseti works. Beforehand you will need to grok some concepts to be able to adjust it to your needs.
Once your forseti configuration file is ready, you can deploy your new application code with the CLI doing:
forseti deploy <application_name>
Forseti is licensed under BSD license. See LICENSE for more information.