Description

Installs the OpenStack Dashboard service Horizon as part of the OpenStack reference deployment Chef for OpenStack. The http://github.com/mattray/chef-openstack-repo contains documentation for using this cookbook in the context of a full OpenStack deployment. Horizon is currently installed from packages.

http://horizon.openstack.org

Requirements

• Chef 0.10.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use).

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are dependencies:

• apache2
• openstack-common

Usage

server

Sets up the Horizon dashboard within an Apache mod_wsgi container.

"run_list": [
    "recipe[openstack-dashboard::server]"
]

Attributes

• openstack["dashboard"]["db"]["username"] - username for horizon database access
• openstack["dashboard"]["server_hostname"] - sets the ServerName in the Apache config.
• openstack["dashboard"]["use_ssl"] - toggle for using ssl with dashboard (default true)
• openstack["dashboard"]["ssl"]["dir"] - directory where ssl certs are stored on this system
• openstack["dashboard"]["ssl"]["cert"] - name to use when creating the ssl certificate
• openstack["dashboard"]["ssl"]["key"] - name to use when creating the ssl key
• openstack["dashboard"]["dash_path"] - base path for dashboard files (document root)
• openstack["dashboard"]["wsgi_path"] - path for wsgi dir
• openstack["dashboard"]["ssl_offload"] - Set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTOCOL', 'https') flag for offloading SSL
• openstack["dashboard"]["plugins"] - Array of plugins to include via INSTALED_APPS

Testing

This cookbook uses bundler, berkshelf, and strainer to isolate dependencies and run tests.

Tests are defined in Strainerfile.

To run tests:

$ bundle install # install gem dependencies
$ bundle exec berks install # install cookbook dependencies
$ bundle exec strainer test # run tests

License and Author

Author	Justin Shepherd (justin.shepherd@rackspace.com)
Author	Jason Cannavale (jason.cannavale@rackspace.com)
Author	Ron Pedde (ron.pedde@rackspace.com)
Author	Joseph Breu (joseph.breu@rackspace.com)
Author	William Kelly (william.kelly@rackspace.com)
Author	Darren Birkett (darren.birkett@rackspace.co.uk)
Author	Evan Callicoat (evan.callicoat@rackspace.com)
Author	Jay Pipes (jaypipes@att.com)
Author	John Dewey (jdewey@att.com)
Author	Matt Ray (matt@opscode.com)
Author	Sean Gallagher (sean.gallagher@att.com)
Author	Chen Zhiwei (zhiwchen@cn.ibm.com)
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2012, Rackspace US, Inc.
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2012-2013, AT&T Services, Inc.
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2013, Opscode, Inc.
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2013, IBM, Corp.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.