Developing Murano Packages 101¶

Murano provides a very powerful and flexible platform to automate the provisioning, deployment, configuration and lifecycle management of applications in OpenStack clouds. However, the flexibility comes at cost: to manage an application with Murano one has to design and develop special scenarios which will tell Murano how to handle different aspects of application lifecycle. These scenarios are usually called “Murano Applications” or “Murano Packages”. It is not hard to build them, but it requires some time to get familiar with Murano’s DSL to define these scenarios and to learn the common patterns and best practices. This article provides a basic introductory course of these aspects and aims to be the starting point for the developers willing to learn how to develop Murano Application packages with ease.

The course consists of the following parts:

Before you proceed, please ensure that you have an OpenStack cloud (devstack-based will work just fine) and the latest version of Murano deployed. This guide assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge of some programming languages and object-oriented design and is a bit familiar with the scripting languages used to configure Linux servers. Also it would be beneficial to be familiar with YAML format: lots of software configuration tools nowadays use YAML, and Murano is no different.