Compose a package

Murano is an Application catalog which intends to support applications defined in different formats. As a first step to universality, support of a heat orchestration template was added. It means that any heat template could be added as a separate application into the Application Catalog. This could be done in two ways: manual and automatic.

Automatic package composing

Before uploading an application into the catalog, it should be prepared and archived. A Murano command line will do all preparation for you. Just choose the desired Heat Orchestration Template and perform the following command:

murano package-create  --template wordpress/template.yaml

Note, that optional parameters could be specified:

–name:an application name, copied from a template by default –logo:an application square logo, by default the heat logo will be used –description:text information about an application, by default copied from a template –author:a name of an application author –output:a name of an output file archive to save locally –full-name:a fully qualified domain name that specifies exact application location –resources-dir:  a path to the directory containing application resources

Note

To performing this command python-muranoclient should be installed in the system

As the result, an application definition archive will be ready for uploading.

Manual package composing

Application package could be composed manually. Follow the 5 steps below.

• Step 1. Choose the desired heat orchestration template

  For this example chef-server.yaml template will be used.

• Step 2. Rename it to template.yaml

• Step 3. Prepare an application logo (optional step)

  It could be any picture associated with the application.

• Step 4. Create manifest.yaml file

  All service information about the application is contained here. Specify the following parameters:

  Format:defines an application definition format; should be set to Heat.HOT/1.0 Type:defines a manifest type, should be set to Application FullName:a unique name which will be used to identify the application in Murano Catalog Description:text information about an application Author:a name of an application author or a company Tags:keywords associated with the application Logo:a name of a logo file for an application

  Take a look at the example:

  Format: Heat.HOT/1.0
  Type: Application
  FullName: com.example.Chef-Server
  Name: Chef Server
  Description: "Heat template to deploy Open Source CHEF server on a VM"
  Author: Kate
  Tags:
    - hot-based
  Logo: logo.png
  

• Step 5. Create a zip archive, containing the specified files: template.yaml, manifest.yaml, logo.png

Browse page looks like:

The configuration form, where you can enter template parameters, will be generated automatically and looks as follows:

After filling the form the application is ready to be deployed.