Description

Installs the Openstack dashboard (codename: horizon) from packages.

http://nova.openstack.org

Requirements

Chef 0.10.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use).

Platforms

Ubuntu-12.04
Fedora-17

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are dependencies:

apache2
database
mysql

Resources/Providers

None

Recipes

default

-includes recipe server

server

-includes recipes apache2, apache2:mod_wsgi, apache2:mod_rewrite, apache2:mod_ssl, mysql:client
-installs and configures the openstack dashboard package, sets up the horizon database schema/user, and installs an appropriate apache config/site file -uses chef search to discover details of where the database (default mysql) and keystone api are installed so we don't need to explicitly set them in our attributes file for this cookbook

Attributes

horizon["db"]["name"] - name of horizon database
horizon["db"]["username"] - username for horizon database access
horizon["db"]["password"] - password for horizon database access
horizon["use_ssl"] - toggle for using ssl with dashboard (default true)
horizon["ssl"]["dir"] - directory where ssl certs are stored on this system
horizon["ssl"]["cert"] - name to use when creating the ssl certificate
horizon["ssl"]["key"] - name to use when creating the ssl key
horizon["dash_path"] - base path for dashboard files (document root)
horizon["wsgi_path"] - path for wsgi dir

Templates

dash-site.erb - the apache config file for the dashboard vhost
local_settings.py.erb - config file for the dashboard application

License and Author

Author:: Justin Shepherd (justin.shepherd@rackspace.com)
Author:: Jason Cannavale (jason.cannavale@rackspace.com)
Author:: Ron Pedde (ron.pedde@rackspace.com)
Author:: Joseph Breu (joseph.breu@rackspace.com)
Author:: William Kelly (william.kelly@rackspace.com)
Author:: Darren Birkett (darren.birkett@rackspace.co.uk)
Author:: Evan Callicoat (evan.callicoat@rackspace.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

littleidea/horizon