Work done by Debasis Roy Choudhuri, Bharat Bagai, Joydipto Banerjee, Udaya Keshavadasu, Rajeev D Samuel, Mitesh Chunara & Krishna Singh at the Business Application Modernization (BAM) Department of IBM India.

In our previous post, we had shown how to implement Cloud management with OpenNebula in a nested VMware environment. That is mostly a Cloud administration work. In this blog, we will focus more from the end users’ point of view. This exercise was also done at the Business Application Modernization (BAM) department of IBM India.

Scope

The goal was to setup a self-service portal based on EC2 query interface from where Cloud users can provision and launch various images that are available. Also users can avail the Public Cloud services of Amazon.

Implementation

To test this scenario we can use either HybridFox or ElasticFox plug-ins. In our scenario, we used HybridFox version 1.7.000119 on client end with Mozilla browser. On FrontEnd machine, you have to install the pre-requisite called ‘gems’ to access amazon-ec2 like interface. Later on with the help of this interface you can connect to Amazon Web Services. There will be certain changes in configuration files that you have to perform on FrontEnd machine.

• File econe.conf:
  :one_xmlrpc: http://localhost:2633/RPC2
:server:
:port: 4567
:auth: ec2
:instance_types:
:m1.small:
:template: m1.small.erb

• File EC2QueryClient.rb: Verify that Signature Method refers to ‘HmacSHA256’
• File EC2CloudAuth.rb:
  # Calculates signature version 1
def signature_v1(params, secret_key, digest='sha1')
params.delete('Signature')
+ params.delete(:econe_host)
+ params.delete(:econe_port)
req_desc = params.sort {|x,y| x[0].downcase <=> y[0].downcase}.to_s digest_generator = OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new(digest)


Once you integrate plug-in with Mozilla and restart econe service on FrontEnd machine, go to Mozilla browser and add your region

Here, AWS Secret Access Key refers to SHA1 password that you can see through oneuser command

Then you will get your EC2 Interface.

This way, you can add more regions with credentials to access other’s cloud. You can also launch virtual machines and other stuff from this interface.

Bharat Bagai
bbagai@gmail.com, bagai_bharat@hotmail.com