PAWS Image service

PAWS Image service is a third-party web-service application with RESTAPI and simple web-UI interface that works like an internal web repository for Windows QCOW images pre-configured and ready to be consumed by PAWS

It is an optional component for PAWS and does not require PAWS installed at the same system it is running.

The purpose of PAWS Image service is to allow you to manage your internal and self-maintained repository of QCOW Windows images pre-configured with your environment and allow your PAWS users to run Windows systems in their local standalone virtual machines that we strong recommend using Libvirt QEMU-KVM as provider.

Examples of usage for PAWS image service and running Windows locally as virtual machines:

pre-validation of your Windows QCOW images before to make than available in a cloud environmnet.
share Windows pre-defined images with an internal team for quick tests and with ability to run in off-line ( all in a local virtual machine )
developing new Powershell scripts to be consumed by PAWS during automation
Windows troubleshooting and debug
when you don't have a cloud computing environment available and want to share your own QCOW Windows images internally with your team

important

PAWS Image service doesn't provide any Windows QCOW Image with it.
It is expected you know how to build your own Windows QCOW image.
PAWS Image service doesn't have supply any MSDN license or any rights.

Installation
Usage

Installation

OS supported: Fedora, CentOS and RHEL ( might need some package in others Linux distros ) Being tested: Fedora versions 24 to 26

clone this repo and install required python libraries. You might need to install some extra packages in your system, check [devel packages](#Devel packages)

Usage

As user

You access URL of PAWS image service, or http://0.0.0.0:5000 if on development mode, browse the images vailable in your internal repository, download them to your local machine to run the Windows in a local virtual environment.

As system administrator

Copy /paws-imgsrv/imgsrv/imgsrv.properties.sample to /paws-imgsrv/imgsrv/imgsrv.properties and update the variables with your needs.

Follow the installation steps described above. Load /qcow folder with your QCOW and xml files.

You can run this as single standalone wsgi python process or behind a Nginx, Apache or any other compatible web-service.

For simple standalone python process:

cd paws-imgsrv/imgsrv
python app.py

or through wsgi single process:

cd paws-imgsrv/imgsrv
uwsgi --socket 0.0.0.0:5000 --protocol=http -w wsgi

to run behind a Nginx see /scripts/nginx and to run as systemctl daemon see /scripts/systemctl

Contributing

To setup your machine to work on paws-imgsrv is simple and easy. paws-imgsrv is a standard Python web-service running on Flask framework and importing basic python libraries. You might need to install some packages and pip libs as described below in next items.

Devel packages

You might need to have these packages in your system, othwerise proceed with the command below to install them:

sudo dnf install -y git git-review wget gcc make rpm-build python-devel \
python-setuptools python-pip python2-flake8 pylint python2-devel \
python-kitchen openssl-devel libffi-devel gcc python-oslo-serialization \
python-pep8 ansible krb5-workstation

Python virtual environment

we recommend you running this application in a separated python virtual environment to avoid any library conflict. Create a python virtual environment, activate it and install required libs:

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 venv_pawsimgsrv
source venv_pawsimgsrv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev-venv.txt --upgrade

run the application

cd paws-imgsrv/imgsrv
python app.py

or through wsgi single process:

cd paws-imgsrv/imgsrv
uwsgi --socket 0.0.0.0:5000 --protocol=http -w wsgi

or in your Eclipse in project -> pydev -> create a new virtual environment pointing to that you just created and set this to be the python libs for your paws-imgsrv project.

When application is running you can access by http://127.0.0.1:5000

code check and analyze

Before any commit make sure your code changes are following the code standard of this project running the command:

cd paws-imgsrv
make codecheck

report an issues

To report an issue that can be ideas or suggestions for new features, or even a bug, please follow github https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-issue/

Screenshots

Home-page

Listing images from internal repository

License

It is under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 3.0 as you have received a local copy at LICENSE file

rhpit/paws-imgsrv