OpenStack Dashboard

An OpenStack Dashboard for the CCIS Open Cloud (AKA CrewCloud)

Getting Started

It's A Rails App, so just

git clone https://github.com/crew/crewcloud-dashboard
cd crewcloud-dashboard
bundle install
rails s
open http://localhost:3000

We Recommend using Sublime Text 3 or RubyMine when developing

Project Specs

Goals

• Develop a Dashboard that successfully wraps OpenStack and provides a much more intuative user interface than Horizon. See DigitalOcean

• Add Functionality to transfer ownership of Instances by a student to in essence "Submit" a VM to a teacher for grading

• Add Functionality to allow Students to quickly and easily spin up prebuilt servers for

  • Web App Server (Apache)
  • Load Balancer (NGINX)
  • DNS (Bind9/named)
  • LDAP Authentication
  • PuppetMaster (Foreman)

• Allow Students to select from Security Group Templates that are predefined for certain applications

• Fully Responsive Design with optimised mobile functionality for Starting, Stopping, and Rebooting Instances

Suggestions

Bootstrap for UI basics. Also some free themes at http://bootstrapzero.com/

Testing

Run All Tests

rake test

Run a single test

For a single test where 25 is the line of the spec file where the it definition lives:

bundle exec rspec spec/my_spec.rb:25

Documentation

Managed On Trello

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