Cloud Provider

Implementing a bare metal cloud computing provider system with python, rabbitmq, and qemu. My goal is to create an on-demand computing platform like EC2 (aka Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). This provider is capable of:

• Spin up VMs on-demand
• Take down VMs on-demand
• Allow to use or not use a public IP on a VM
• Be scalable in the background, i.e. possibly VMs are on different servers

Schema

In the following textbox we are displaying our cloud provider schema. As the image states, first the user sends a request into rabbitMQ cluster to perform an operation. On the other side, the consumer is bound to listen for user requests. After receiving each request, consumer checks the input request and calls fallback functions.

| make publish | -> | consume by consumer | -> | callback function based on request |

Setup

Create an env variable for your rabbitMQ address:

export RABBIT_HOST=localhost

Now start the consumer by python consumer/main.py. You can work with provider as CLI for sending your requests.

commands

In the following list you can see CLI commands:

• python provider/main.py start-vm --image [image name]
• python provider/main.py list-vm
• python provider/main.py stop-vm --vm-id [id returned in list-vm]