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Getting Started With ProfitBricks
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ProfitBricks provides an enterprise-grade Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
solution that can be managed through a browser-based "Data Center Designer"
(DCD) tool or via an easy to use API. A unique feature of the ProfitBricks
platform is that it allows you to define your own settings for cores, memory,
and disk size without being tied to a particular instance size.
Dependencies
============
* profitbricks >= 2.3.0
Configuration
=============
* Using the new format, set up the cloud configuration at
``/etc/salt/cloud.providers`` or
``/etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/profitbricks.conf``:
.. code-block:: yaml
my-profitbricks-config:
# Set the location of the salt-master
#
minion:
master: saltmaster.example.com
# Configure ProfitBricks authentication credentials
#
username: user@domain.com
password: 123456
# datacenter is the UUID of a pre-existing virtual data center.
datacenter: 9e6709a0-6bf9-4bd6-8692-60349c70ce0e
# Connect to public LAN ID 1.
public_lan: 1
ssh_public_key: /path/to/id_rsa.pub
ssh_private_key: /path/to/id_rsa
driver: profitbricks
.. note::
.. versionchanged:: 2015.8.0
The ``provider`` parameter in cloud provider definitions was renamed to ``driver``. This
change was made to avoid confusion with the ``provider`` parameter that is used in cloud profile
definitions. Cloud provider definitions now use ``driver`` to refer to the Salt cloud module that
provides the underlying functionality to connect to a cloud host, while cloud profiles continue
to use ``provider`` to refer to provider configurations that you define.
Virtual Data Center
===================
ProfitBricks uses the concept of Virtual Data Centers. These are logically
separated from one another and allow you to have a self-contained environment
for all servers, volumes, networking, snapshots, and so forth.
A list of existing virtual data centers can be retrieved with the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
salt-cloud -f list_datacenters my-profitbricks-config
Authentication
==============
The ``username`` and ``password`` are the same as those used to log into the
ProfitBricks "Data Center Designer".
Profiles
========
Here is an example of a profile:
.. code-block:: yaml
profitbricks_production:
provider: my-profitbricks-config
size: Micro Instance
image: 2f98b678-6e7e-11e5-b680-52540066fee9
disk_size: 10
cores: 2
ram: 4096
public_lan: 1
private_lan: 2
ssh_public_key: /path/to/id_rsa.pub
ssh_private_key: /path/to/id_rsa
ssh_interface: private_lan
The following list explains some of the important properties.
size
Can be one of the options listed in the output of the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
salt-cloud --list-sizes my-profitbricks
image
Can be one of the options listed in the output of the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
salt-cloud --list-images my-profitbricks
disk_size
This option allows you to override the size of the disk as defined by the
size. The disk size is set in gigabytes (GB).
cores
This option allows you to override the number of CPU cores as defined by
the size.
ram
This option allows you to override the amount of RAM defined by the size.
The value must be a multiple of 256, e.g. 256, 512, 768, 1024, and so
forth.
public_lan
This option will connect the instance to the specified public LAN. If no
LAN exists, then a new public LAN will be created. The value accepts a LAN
ID (integer).
private_lan
This option will connect the instance to the specified private LAN. If no
LAN exists, then a new private LAN will be created. The value accepts a LAN
ID (integer).
ssh_private_key
Full path to the SSH private key file.
ssh_public_key
Full path to the SSH public key file.
ssh_interface
This option will use the private LAN IP for node connections (such as
as bootstrapping the node) instead of the public LAN IP. The value accepts
'private_lan'.
deploy
Set to False if Salt should not be installed on the node.
For more information concerning cloud profiles, see :doc:`here
</topics/cloud/profiles>`.