A Spring Boot project to automate the frequently used CloudStack operations

Steps mentioned below will tell you how to automate the common tasks done in CloudStack from UI which could save lot of your time.

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

Java 8+
Apache Maven
Any IDE to import the project
Angular CLI

A step by step series of instructions that tell you how to start the project

Download the project from github

git clone <repo url>

Import the project into any IDE as a Maven project.

To talk to CloudStack, you need the URL endpoint, ApiKey and SecretKey. You need to enter these values in "application.properties" file.

It can connect to multiple CLoudStack endpoints simultaneously. If you have 5 data centers with CloudStack installed in different regions then you need to enter the above mentioned three parameters corresponding to the location name.

For ex: If you have CloudStack instance running in USA, EUROPE and ASIA location, below is the configuration you need to enter

usa.url=<https://...>
usa.apiKey=
usa.secretKey=

europe.url=
europe.apiKey=
europe.secretKey=

asia.url=
asia.apiKey=
asia.secretKey=

Once these changes are done, you are all good to go. Only steps left is to build the packages and start the project

Make sure that the file "frontend/angular.json" contains the following line

"outputPath": "../src/main/resources/public",

The "outputPath" tells the maven to build frontend packages and put those templates files into public folder of java project

Install the necessary angular dependencies

cd frontend
npm install --save-dev @angular-devkit/build-angular

Build the project from the top directory using the command

mvn package -DskipTests

This will generate the jar file in the target directory Now run the project using

java -jar target/cloudstack-automation.jar

Navigate to the following link in your browser

http://localhost:8080

Run the below command to create a docker image

./mvnw install dockerfile:build

This will create a docker image with name

cloudstack-automation

Run the docker image using the command

docker run -p 8080:8080 -t cloudstack-automation

• Rakesh Venkatesh - Initial work - ravening