VM Image synchronisation

VM Images are replicated using cloudkeeper, which has two components:

• fronted (cloudkeeper-core) dealing the with image lists and downloading the needed images, run periodically with cron
• backend (cloudkeeper-os) dealing with your glance catalogue, running permanently.

Using the VM Appliance

Every 4 hours, the appliance will perform the following actions:

• download the configured lists in /etc/cloudkeeper/image-lists.conf and verify its signature
• check any changes in the lists and download new images
• synchronise this information to the configured glance endpoint

First you need to configure and start the backend. Edit /etc/cloudkeeper-os/cloudkeeper-os.conf and add the authentication parameters from line 117 to 136.

Then add as many image lists (one per line) as you would like to subscribe to /etc/cloudkeeper/image-lists.conf. Use URLs with your AppDB token for authentication, check the following guides for getting such token and URLs:

• how to access to VO-wide image lists, and
• how to subscribe to a private image list.

Finally, you need to provide a /etc/cloudkeeper-os/mapping.json that configures the mapping of VOs supported in your OpenStack. The file should contain a json document that follows this format:

{
        "<VO_NAME>": {
            "project": "<id of project in OpenStack for VO_NAME>"
        },
        "<VO_NAME_2>": {
            "project": "<local name of project in OpenStack for VO_NAME_2>",
            "domain": "<domain name for project in OpenStack>"
        }
}

Note that you can either specify a project ID or the project name with the domain name in the mapping. Add as many VOs as you are supporting.

Running the services

cloudkeeper-os should run permanently, there is a cloudkeeper-os.service for systemd in the appliance. Manage as usual:

systemctl <start|stop|status> cloudkeeper-os

cloudkeeper core is run every 4 hours with a cron script.