Description

Rackit is comprised of two parts:

1. The Ruby based internal DSL to describe a computing environment
2. The Ruby based command line interface into the Rackspace Ruby Cloud Server API.

This is a project for me to get some practical experience with Ruby - I am not looking to compete against the likes of Chef, I'm just learning Ruby.

Thanks! Z

Installation

This source is available on Github and the gem is available on Gemcutter. To install it, do

gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org/ (Newer Ruby Gems have this already)

sudo gem install rackit

Example

Initialize Rackit Environment

ruby rackit.rb init

Describe the Computing Environment with Rackit DSL

require 'rackit'

environment = Environment.new("Development", "dev") do

    server  "web",     {:instances => 2, :imageId => 49, :flavorId => 2 }
    server  "worker" , {:instances => 1, :imageId => 49, :flavorId => 2 }
    server  "sql",     {:instances => 1, :imageId => 49, :flavorId => 2 }

end

Start the Rackspace Environment

ruby rackit.rb start dev

Stop the Rackspace Environment

ruby rackit.rb stop dev

Known Issues

1. rackit.rb init command doesn't work :)
2. rackit.rb start command doesn't work :)
3. rackit.rb stop command doesn't work :)

The DSL does work somewhat ...work in progress! :)

Thanks,

Z