Armonic is a deployment tool based on state machines. It's basically composed by an agent and several kinds of clients.
With Armonic, an sysadmin/devops can:
- build a distributed application by assembling predefined services,
- know what will happen on each node,
- use suggested configuration values,
- save deployments to play them again.
Requirements are:
apt-get install python-setuptools python-mysqldb python-lxml python-ipy python-netifaces python-prettytable python-nose python-augeas python-dev
To install Armonic as a user: python setup.py install --user
In this quick start guide, we use the local version of Armonic which doesn't require any agent.
Then, you can begin to use Armonic by listing available modules so-called Lifecycle:
armocli-local lifecycle
Two dummy lifecycle are available:
- WebServer simulates a webserver service,
- WebSite simulates a website and depends of WebServer.
For instance, to activate the webserver run:
armocli-local -v provide-call //WebServer//start
armocli-local tool is used to do basic task such as get informations about lifecycles, call simple provides, etc. For more informations about it, type armocli-local -h.
Basically, to deploy a website, we have to first create a document root on the webserver, and then install website files in this directory. These tasks can be orchestrated by the tool smartonic.
Let's try it:
smartonic-local //WebSite//start
Then, follow it and see messages which simulate deployment of a web site (and a web server).
Documentation on http://armonic.readthedocs.org/en/latest/