The infrastrucure middleman
Broker is a tool designed to provide a common interface between one or many services that provision virtual machines. It is an abstraction layer that allows you to ignore (most) of the implementation details and just get what you need.
dnf install cmake
cd <broker root directory>
pip install .
cp setting.yaml.example settings.yaml
Then edit the settings.yaml file
Checking out a VM
broker checkout --workflow "workflow-name" --workflow-arg1 something --workflow-arg2 else
You can pass in any arbitrary arguments you want
Nicks
Broker allows you to define configurable nicknames for checking out vms. Just add yours to setting.yaml and call with the --nick option
broker checkout --nick rhel7
Duplicating a VM
Broker offers another shortcut for checking out a VM with the same recipe as one already checked out by Broker. This is via the duplicate command.
broker duplicate my.awesome.vm.com
broker duplicate 0
broker duplicate 1 3
Listing your VMs
Broker maintains a local inventory of the VMs you've checked out. You can see these with the inventory command.
broker inventory
Checking in VMs
You can also return a VM to its provider with the checkin command.
You may use either the local id (broker inventory), the hostname, or "all" to checkin everything.
broker checkin my.host.fqdn.com
broker checkin 0
broker checkin 1 3 my.host.fqdn.com
broker checkin all
Creating nicks
Broker will attempt to help your create your own nicks with the nick-help command.
If supported by your chosen provider, nick-help will display the additional arguments you can use when defining a new nick.
broker nick-help --help
broker nick-help --workflow my-awesome-workflow