Local Test Cloud

Summary

testCloud is a small tool to download and boot cloud images locally.

Owner

Name: Mike Ruckman
Email: roshi@fedoraproject.org
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 22
Last updated: (2014-01-20)
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

testCloud was created because manually booting a cloud image locally can be a pain. It handles downloading the image, spoofing cloud-init metadata as well as providing an ssh_config to easily connect to the booted instance. What was usually several different steps to get an image to boot locally is now just one:

 python testCloud.py <url for qcow2 image>

It currently supports both the Fedora Cloud Base as well as the Atomic host image.

Note: testCloud will likely change names in the near future.

Benefit to Fedora

Making it easy for users and developers to download and try the Fedora Cloud images locally makes it easier to:

Learn about Cloud (if you don't have access to a cloud provider)
Test Fedora Cloud releases
Locally test your cloud application
Lowers the barrier to get involved with Fedora cloud efforts

Scope

Proposal owners: Mike Ruckman, Kushal Das

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)