Developing with Mongo

You can customize the versions and other aspects of the MongoDB that is used in cloudmesh.

After the install, you can start it with the command

cms admin mongo start

Now you can interact with it to find out the status, the stats, and the database listing with the commands

cms admin mongo status
cms admin mongo stats
cms admin mongo list

To stop it from running use the command

cms admin mongo stop

To back up and load from the backup you can use:

:: code:: bash

cms admin mongo save [–file=FILE] cms admin mongo load [–file=FILE]

The database will be started based on the information as specified in ~/.cloudmesh/cloudmesh.yaml. An example is

mongo:
  MONGO_AUTOINSTALL: False
  MONGO_BREWINSTALL: False
  LOCAL: ~/local
  MONGO_DBNAME: 'cloudmesh'
  MONGO_HOST: '127.0.0.1'
  MONGO_PORT: '27017'
  MONGO_USERNAME: 'admin'
  MONGO_PASSWORD: TBD
  MONGO_DOWNLOAD:
    darwin:
      url: https://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-ssl-x86_64-4.0.12.tgz
      MONGO_PATH: ~/.cloudmesh/mongodb
      MONGO_LOG: ~/.cloudmesh/mongodb/log
      MONGO_HOME: ~/local/mongo
    linux:
      url: https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-4.0.10.tgz
      MONGO_PATH: ~/.cloudmesh/mongodb
      MONGO_LOG: ~/.cloudmesh/mongodb/log
      MONGO_HOME: ~/local/mongo
    win32:
      url: https://fastdl.mongodb.org/win32/mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-ssl-4.0.10-signed.msi
      MONGO_PATH: ~\.cloudmesh\mongodb-data
      MONGO_LOG: ~\.cloudmesh\mongodb-data\log
      MONGO_HOME: ~\.cloudmesh\mongo
    redhat:
      url: https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/7/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/RPMS/mongodb-org-server-4.0.10-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
      MONGO_PATH: ~/.cloudmesh/mongodb
      MONGO_LOG: ~/.cloudmesh/mongodb/log
      MONGO_HOME: ~/local/mongo

We also provide a convenient MongoDB install script that downloads the version defined in the YAML file and installs it in the system with the command. In the case of the windows platform, you will have to set the PATH variable manually after install

cms admin mongo install

Database Decorator

Cloudmesh comes with a very convenient mechanism to integrate specifically formed dicts into MongoDB. All you have to do is to create a list of dictionaries with a function, that returns this dictionary and use a decorator in the function to update the information into the database.

The database decorator automatically replaces an entry in the database with the dictionary returned by a function.

It is added to a specific MongoDB collection. The location is determined from the values in the dictionary. The dict must contain a dict named cm that contains the attributes kind, cloud, name:

"cm" : {
    "kind" : "flavor",
    "cloud" : "chameleon",
    "name" : "m1.medium",
},

When such a dict is uploaded with our database decorator that we explain later, information such as created, updated, and other attributes are added. Some of the information for these attributes is taken from the cloudmesh4 .yaml file, while others such as modified, will be updated dynamically:

"cm" : {
    "name" : "m1.medium",
    "created" : "2019-03-25 07:45:46.905623",
    "modified" : "2019-03-25 07:45:46.905623",
    "cloud" : "chameleon",
    "kind" : "flavor",
    "driver" : "openstack",
    "collection" : "chameleon-flavor"
},

Using this information the object can easily be found in the database by name, type or cloud, or a combination thereof.

Note

in a future version the cloud parameter will be renamed to service

The name of the collection is determined from cloud and kind:

{cloud}-{kind}

In addition, each entry in the collection has a name that must be unique in that collection.

In most examples, it is best to separate the upload from the native class the interacts with the service. This way we provide always two classes. One interacting with the service and the other one that acts alike for all provider, while the name of the provider decides which native provider is used to interacting with the cloud services.

Example:

cloudmesh.example.foo contains:

class Provider(object)

    def entries(self):
        return {
         "cm" : {
            "kind" : "flavor",
            "driver" : "openstack",
            "cloud" : "foo",
            "created" : "2019-04-01 15:59:39.815993",
            "name" : "m1.xxxlarge",
            "collection" : "chameleon-flavor",
            "modified" : "2019-04-01 16:01:11.720274"
        },

cloudmesh.example.bar contains:

class Provider(object)

    def entries(self):
        return {
         "cm" : {
            "kind" : "flavor",
            "driver" : "openstack",
            "cloud" : "bar",
            "created" : "2019-04-01 15:59:39.815993",
            "name" : "m1.xxxlarge",
            "collection" : "chameleon-flavor",
            "modified" : "2019-04-01 16:01:11.720274"
        },

cloudmesh.example.provider.foo contains:

from cloudmesh.example.foo import Provider as FooProvider
from cloudmesh.example.foo import Provider as BarProvider

class Provider(object)

    def __init__(self, provider):
       if provider == "foo":
          provider = FooProvider()
       elif provider == "bar":
          provider = BarProvider()

    @DatabaseUpdate()
    def entries(self):
        provider.entries()

Separating the database and the dictionary creation allows the developer to implement different providers but only use one class with the same methods to interact for all providers with the database. In the combined provider a find function to for example search for entries by name across collections could be implemented.

Database Access

In addition to the decorator, we have a very simple database class for interacting across a number of collections. This especially is useful for finding information:

self.database = CmDatabase()

Find the entry with the unique name CC-Centos:

r = self.database.find_name("CC-CentOS7")
pprint(r)

Find the entries with either CC-CentOS7 or CC-CentOS7-1811:

r = self.database.find_names("CC-CentOS7,CC-CentOS7-1811")
pprint(r)

Find out how many entries exist with the name CC-CentOS7:

r = self.database.name_count("CC-CentOS7")
pprint(r)

Creating Unique Names

Often it is important to create unique names. To support the easy creation without hassle, we designed a Name class, that takes its values from the cloudmesh cmd5 shell variables. A good example is the following name, where we like to identify within the name an experiment, a group of resources within the experiment, a user running the experiment, and a counter. This can be set up as follows:

{experiment}-{group}-{user}-{counter}

The values for them can be set with the cms set function

Thus if you use the name function in your program, you get a very convenient way of getting the next name. Naturally, you could define multiple such names for different resources and needs

To use it in your program you can say:

from cloumdesh.management.configuration.name import Name

name = Name(
    experiment="exp",
    group="grp",
    user="gregor",
    kind="vm",
    counter=1)

To increase the counter use:

name.incr()

To get the name at the current counter value say:

str(name)

or

name.id()

The format can be changed with schema= at the initialization. Thus

name = Name(
        user='gregor,
        schema='{user}-{counter}`,
        counter=1)

would create names of the form gergor1, gergor2, and so on.

The format of the names can also be controlled by the file:

~/.cloudmesh/names.yaml

An example is:

counter: 13
user: gregor
kind: vm
schema: '{user}-{kind}-{counter}'
path: /Users/grey/.cloudmesh/name.yaml

In it, you define variables that can be used as part of the schema. The counter variable is increased every time a new name is generated. In case a YAML file is used no parameters have to be given to Name()