Usage

To understand a workflow you should start with our Wordpress tutorial.

Solar can be used in three ways. Using CLI Api, python API and Composer files. The last one is showed in Wordpress tutorial.

Examples

Note

You need to have nodes resources created before running example. You can add them by calling solar resource create nodes templates/nodes count=X where X is required nodes number

Each API is used in different examples:

Python API

• 3 node cluster riak
• hosts files
• 2 node OpenStack Cluster

Composer files

• Wordpress site
• 3 node cluster riak

CLI API

1. Create some resources (look at solar-resources/examples/openstack/openstack.py) and connect them between each other, and place them on nodes.
2. Run solar changes stage (this stages the changes)
3. Run solar changes process (this prepares orchestrator graph, returning change UUID)
4. Run solar orch run-once <change-uuid> (or solar orch run-once last to run the lastly created graph)
5. Observe progress of orch with watch ‘solar orch report <change-uuid>’ (or watch ‘solar orch report last’).

Some very simple cluster setup:

solar resource create nodes templates/nodes count=1
solar resource create mariadb_service resources/mariadb_service '{"image": "mariadb:5.6", "root_password": "mariadb", "port": 3306}'
solar resource create keystone_db resources/mariadb_db/ '{"db_name": "keystone_db", "login_user": "root"}'
solar resource create keystone_db_user resources/mariadb_user/ user_name=keystone user_password=keystone  # another valid format

solar connect node1 mariadb_service # it will mark mariadb_service to run on node1
solar connect node1 keystone_db
solar connect mariadb_service keystone_db '{"root_password": "login_password", "port": "login_port", "ip": "db_host"}'
solar connect keystone_db keystone_db_user

solar changes stage
solar changes process
solar orch run-once last # or solar orch run-once last
solar orch report last -w 1000 # or solar orch report last

You can fiddle with the above configuration like this:

solar resource update keystone_db_user '{"user_password": "new_keystone_password"}'
solar resource update keystone_db_user user_password=new_keystone_password   # another valid format

solar changes stage
solar changes process
solar orch run-once last

To get data for the resource bar (raw and pretty-JSON):

solar resource show --tag 'resources/bar'
solar resource show --as_json --tag 'resources/bar' | jq .
solar resource show --name 'resource_name'
solar resource show --name 'resource_name' --json | jq .

To clear all resources/connections:

solar resource clear_all

Show the connections/graph:

solar connections show
solar connections graph

You can also limit graph to show only specific resources:

solar connections graph --start-with mariadb_service --end-with keystone_db

You can make sure that all input values are correct and mapped without duplicating your values with this command:

solar resource validate

Disconnect

solar disconnect mariadb_service node1

Tag a resource:

solar resource tag node1 test-tags # Remove tags
solar resource tag node1 test-tag --delete