mrack

Provisioning library for CI and local multi-host testing supporting multiple provisioning providers (OpenStack, AWS, libvirt, podman containers, Beaker).

But in comparison to multi-cloud libraries, the aim is to be able to describe host from application perspective. E.g.:

network: IPv4
hosts:
- name: master.testdomain.test
  role: master
  group: ipaserver
  os: fedora-31
- name: client.testdomain.test
  role: client
  group: ipaclient
  os: fedora-30

This is then combined with provisioning configuration where each provider has defined meaning for role, group, os params which e.g. translates to flavors, images, ...

provider: openstack  # default provider
openstack:
  images:
    fedora-30: Fedora-Cloud-Base-30-compose-latest
    fedora-31: Fedora-Cloud-Base-31
  flavors:
    ipaserver: ci.m1.medium
    ipaclient: ci.m1.micro
  networks:
    IPv4: net_ci_4
    IPv6: net_ipv6_only
    dual: net_cci_4_6
  keypair: ipa_key
beaker:
  distros:
    fedora-30: FEDORA-30%
    fodora-31: FEDORA-31%

So then user can quickly change provisioning location just by changing provider name without needing to redefine the provider/cloud specifics. This is especially useful for a lot of jobs sharing the same app specific provisioner configuration.

provider: beaker

Or each host can use a different provider:

hosts:
- name: master.testdomain.test
  role: master
  group: ipaserver
  os: fedora-31
  provider: openstack
  network: dual
- name: client.testdomain.test
  role: client
  group: ipaclient
  os: fedora-30
  provider: beaker

The output is then Ansible inventory with correct group mapping and information which allows to SSH to the machines.

all:
  children:
    ipaserver:
      hosts:
        f30-1.mrack.test: {}
        f33-2.mrack.test: {}
  hosts:
    f30-1.mrack.test:
      ansible_host: 10.0.154.21
      ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
      ansible_ssh_private_key_file: config/id_rsa
      ansible_user: fedora
      meta_dc_record: DC=mrack,DC=test
      meta_domain: mrack.test
      meta_fqdn: f30-1.mrack.test
      meta_ip: 10.0.154.21
      meta_os: fedora-30
      meta_provider_id: 7c3c28f9-4674-4f7f-b413-00bc0b00d711
      meta_restraint_id: 9
      meta_role: master
    f33-2.mrack.test:
      ansible_host: ec2-13-15-16-1.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
      ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
      ansible_ssh_private_key_file: config/id_rsa
      ansible_user: fedora
      meta_dc_record: DC=mrack,DC=test
      meta_domain: mrack.test
      meta_fqdn: f33-2.mrack.test
      meta_ip: 13.15.16.1
      meta_os: fedora-33
      meta_provider_id: i-08c0d4a86c4b7f7ef
      meta_restraint_id: 1
      meta_role: master

Installation

mrack can be installed via pip, from PyPI:

pip install mrack

It is also available for Fedora 32+ via COPR:

# enable the copr at your system
sudo dnf copr enable @freeipa/neoave

# install mrack package with all supported providers and cli
sudo dnf install mrack

# install mrack command and e.g. AWS provider
sudo dnf install mrack-cli python3-mrack-aws

# install mrack library to be later used as an import with support of OpenStack provider:
sudo dnf install python3-mrack-openstack

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NOTE

Above command will install mrack package which depends on (contains) following packages:

• mrack-cli
• python3-mracklib
• python3-mrack-aws
• python3-mrack-beaker
• python3-mrack-openstack
• python3-mrack-podman
• python3-mrack-virt

The python3-mracklib is mandatory as it contains core mrack library. To install only some of mrack providers you should install python3-mrack-{provider_name}. To install mrack command a package mrack-cli is required.

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Run mrack

In order to use the mrack utility a mrack.conf (e.g. [mrack.conf] from the repository(repo/blob/main/src/mrack/data/mrack.conf)) is needed.

mrack looks for the config file in following order:

• ./ actual directory
• ~/.mrack/ home directory
• /etc/mrack/ system directory

Values from the configuration file could be overriden using mrack utility options --mrack-config --provisioning-config --db (for more see mrack --help).

Usage: mrack [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Multihost human friendly provisioner.

Options:
  -c, --mrack-config PATH
  -p, --provisioning-config PATH
  -d, --db PATH
  --debug
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  destroy  Destroy provisioned hosts.
  list     List host tracked by.
  output   Create outputs - such as Ansible inventory.
  ssh      SSH to host.
  up       Provision hosts.

Provisioning with mrack

To provision system from the metadata.yaml either run:

mrack up

or use up command's option --metadata/-m to override path to the metadata file.

mrack up --metadata other-metadata.yaml

To return resources using mrack run:

mrack destroy

or use destroy command's option --metadata/-m to override path to the metadata file.

mrack destroy --metadata other-metadata.yaml

mrack as python library

# first set up authentication for each provider
# $ export AWS_CONFIG_FILE=`readlink -f ./aws.key`
from mrack.providers import providers
# import all supported providers:
from mrack.providers.aws import PROVISIONER_KEY as AWS
from mrack.providers.aws import AWSProvider
from mrack.providers.beaker import PROVISIONER_KEY as BEAKER
from mrack.providers.beaker import BeakerProvider
from mrack.providers.openstack import PROVISIONER_KEY as OPENSTACK
from mrack.providers.openstack import OpenStackProvider
from mrack.providers.podman import PROVISIONER_KEY as PODMAN
from mrack.providers.podman import PodmanProvider
from mrack.providers.static import PROVISIONER_KEY as STATIC
from mrack.providers.static import StaticProvider
from mrack.providers.virt import PROVISIONER_KEY as VIRT
from mrack.providers.virt import VirtProvider

# register all supported providers:
providers.register(AWS, AWSProvider)
providers.register(OPENSTACK, OpenStackProvider)
providers.register(BEAKER, BeakerProvider)
providers.register(PODMAN, PodmanProvider)
providers.register(STATIC, StaticProvider)
providers.register(VIRT, VirtProvider)


# use global context class
import mrack
global_context = mrack.context.global_context

# init global context with paths to files
mrack_config = "mrack.conf"
provisioning_config = "provisioning-config.yaml"
db_file = "mrackdb.json"
global_context.init(mrack_config, provisioning_config, db_file)

# load the metadata to global_context
metadata = "./metadata-f34.yaml"
global_context.init_metadata(metadata)

# pick default provider:
provider = "aws"

# create Up action

from mrack.actions.up import Up

up_action = Up()
await up_action.init(provider)

# provision machines:
await up_action.provision()

# store the output to db or just use the db later on
from mrack.actions.output import Output
output_action = Output()
await output_action.generate_outputs()

# work with machines...

# cleanup the machines:
from mrack.actions.destroy import Destroy
destroy_action = Destroy()
await destroy_action.destroy()

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Testing

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$ tox
# or use make
$ make test