drupal-blueprint

A Drupal (LAMP CMS) blueprint for OpenStack and Hybrid Cloud (OpenStack and vSphere)

This blueprint enables ypu to deploy, configure, monitor, heal and scale a Drupal 7 on OpenStack and on Hybrid Cloud (OpenStack and vSphere).
Once installed, Cloudify enables you to perform Day-2 operations on your live environments.
E.G : Apply patches, invoke security updates etc.

Prerequisites

An Ubuntu 14.04 image id from your OpenStack account and from your vSphere account
An flavor image id of your choice from your OpenStack account

Tested Version

This blueprint has been test with Cloudify version 3.4.0 and with Drupal 7.

Usage

All you need to do is to set/specify (as an input to the blueprint) the OpenStack image id for Ubuntu 14.04 and the OpenStack flavor Id.
If you use the Hybrid version, you need to set/specify (as an input to the blueprint) the vsphere_template_name for Ubuntu 14.04.

Step 1: Installation

cfy install <blueprint_filename> -i <your_inputs_file> -b drupal

This process will create all the cloud resources needed for the application and the application itself ...:

VMs
Floating IP's
Security Groups

and everything else that is needed and declared in the blueprint.

Step 2: Verify installation

Once the workflow execution is complete, we can view the application endpoint by running:

cfy deployments outputs -d <deployment_id>

Hit that URL to see the application running.

Step 3: Demo the Day-2 Operation.

The following will change the theme of the Drupal site.
It can be invoked from the Cloudify manager UI as well...

Here are instructions to run it from the Cloudify CLI:

export dep=<deployment_id> export myTheme=mayo cfy executions start -d $dep -w drush_install -p "project_name=${myTheme}"

This is how you invoke it from the drush_setvar workflow from the CFY CLI :

cfy executions start -d $dep -w drush_setvar -p "variable_name=theme_default;variable_value=${myTheme}"

Now refresh the web page of the Drupal site and see that the theme has indeed changed.

Step 4: Demo the Auto Scale Example

By using the apache IP & PORT which are in the output of the command above, you can run:

ab -n 1000000 -c 200 http://$IP:$PORT/

This will increase the number of requests to the application. As a result the CPU used by the Drupal VM will spike above the scale up threshold. This metric is monitored by the Diamond plugin, and the Riemann auto-scale policy calls the scale workflow trigger.

Killing this command should cause the CPU to drop below the scale down threshold, and the application will scale down.

You can simulate a failed host by stopping or suspending a running memcacheD VM. The Riemann failed host policy will recognize the lack of system cpu metrics reporting on the host and will trigger the heal workflow.

Step 5: Uninstall

Now lets run the uninstall workflow. This will uninstall the application, as well as delete all related resources.

cfy uninstall drupal

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