CloudCTL

DevOps Services & Utilities Container Pod Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolkit.

Problem

Infrastructure deployment requires a wide set of user enablement & automation utilities, network services, and Infrastructure as Code resources. These can become difficult & inconsistent to maintain and support.

Solution

CloudCtl provides a Podman container Pod based "Point of Origin" Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolkit for deployment operations tasks with core features delivered via UBI8 based Konductor as primary orchestration base capable of dynamically allocating additional pod contained services. All existing containerized services are delivered as UBI & UBI Minimal containerized services. When bundled for airgap usage the total payload to carry hovers around ~1.5G.

Core Features

• Extensable
• Portable
• Stateful
• Dynamic
• Consistent
• Zero external dependencies (No yum/dnf rpm downloads)
• Airgap Supported (with Koffer collector)
• Behaves the same whether connected or disconnected from the internet

Supported Distributions

• Fedora 32+
• CentOS 8.0+
• RedHat 8.0+
• Ubuntu 20.04+

Supported Services

• Konductor User Space Container
• Ansible Runner Service API
• Docker Image Registry
• Nginx File Server
• Haproxy TCP Load Balancer
• CoreDNS
• ISC-DHCP
• Tftpd

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Getting Started

Run as User: root

0. Install Dependencies

On RHEL 8+ / CentOS 8+ / Fedora 32+
  dnf install -y podman

On Ubuntu 20.04+
  apt install -y podman

1. Clone Repo

 mkdir -p /root/cloudctl && \
 podman run -it --rm --volume /root/cloudctl:/clone:z \
   quay.io/cloudctl/git \
 https://github.com/CloudCtl/CloudCtl.git && \
 cd ~/cloudctl

2. Initialize CloudCtl Pod

./init.sh

3. Exec into Konductor Userspace

podman exec -it konductor connect

4. Verify API Access

curl -ks \
    --key  /root/platform/secrets/cloudctl/certs/ssl/server/cloudctl.pem \
    --cert /root/platform/secrets/cloudctl/certs/ssl/server/cloudctl.crt \
  https://localhost:5001/api/v1/playbooks -X GET

sample output:

{"status": "OK", "msg": "0 playbook found", "data": {"playbooks": []}}

5. SSH to Konductor over port 2222

ssh -p 2222 root@10.88.0.1

6. Review pod status

sudo podman pod ps
sudo podman ps --all

sample output:

36668681f233  Up 18 hours ago    coredns
596dbaa4520b  Up 18 hours ago    haproxy
44d434359e33  Up 18 hours ago    nginx
1efcd0fafb40  Up 18 hours ago    registry
3598bab7c7ed  Up 18 hours ago    runner
11305c527abe  Up 18 hours ago    konductor
fbf274723577  Up 18 hours ago    c7fc137831c8-infra

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Cleanup

podman pod rm --force cloudctl
podman image prune --all
rm -rf /root/platform /tmp/konductor
rm -rf /root/cloudctl