I currently have a server build process that uses Terraform and deploys a server all from code.
I'm looking for a web UI with forms that I could either populate specific fields and or do API get commands against a VCenter or wherever the server is being built to populate the specific fields. The fields that get populated would be stored as the variables.tf file and when someone hits submit, it would run the actual Terraform command terraform apply to build the server based on the variables. My guess is the terraform binaries would have to live on there so it could run in the background.
It doesn't have to be some super fancy web page, just something that I could potentially make look cool for Director level folks.
Also, I don't want to use TF enterprise, yet. I've looked into a couple of open source projects (atlantis and terrahub) but none seem to be what I'm looking for.
I'm far from a web developer so any help would be awesome.
You can try with SLD
Stack-Lifecycle-Deployment
I think it has everything that you need
It is very intuitive, it has a web interface and a rest api to easily integrate it with the rest of the applications.
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first of all I'm not sure how I can explain myself since I'm not native English speaker but please bear with me in the following scenario: I have a lot of customers where they need a simple blog website with their own domain name, instead of me registering on host service provider and deploying that blog website manually I'm looking for a better automated solution for example it would make a lot of sense if they use my own platform so after a successful registration/payment on my platform their website is deployed independently on private server instance (with their own specific config) ... Im not really looking for an answer on exactly how to implement that but what that process is called (the deployment part) or under what category should I dig to learn more. your advice is much appreciated.
There can be multiple approaches to solve the problem.
However, simple one will be using AWS SDK to create EC2 instances with Bitnami wordpress image.
You can trigger the API with parameters which will auto-install wordpress, configure dns and other stuff and provide the ready to use website within seconds.
I have been working on moving our continuous integration(CI) to Azure using Azure's built in CI. After each build, it shows the last commit message as the deployment reason. I would like to put the current version of my App in there.
Does anybody know if there is a way I can override, or extend the information shown in the Deployment details view after a build for Azure WebServices.
I haven't seen anywhere to add this, so I guess UserVoice is the best way to get their attention. I'd certainly vote it up.
I want to integrate the Doctrine 2 to an Apigility driven Zend Framework 2 application.
So I installed zfcampus/zf-apigility-doctrine
$ composer require zfcampus/zf-apigility-doctrine "~0.3"
and activated the modules Phpro\DoctrineHydrationModule, ZF\Apigility\Doctrine\Server, and ZF\Apigility\Doctrine\Admin in the application config files (/config/application.config.php and /config/development.config.php).
What should be done next to start using Doctrine in the application as general and particularly in the Apigility Admin area?
I experimented with this Apigility extension in the fall but it was far from complete at that point. The server code was usable but there wasn't any UI integration to speak of. You can still manipulate endpoints by dissecting how zf-apigility-doctrine's controllers work and the information provided in the README. The rest is mostly trial and error. At the time I used the Postman plugin for Chrome to send requests to the endpoints mentioned in the README, trying different inputs until I found something that worked. It looks like they've made good progress on this portion of the integration since I last tried but I haven't revisited since to try again.
It seems there's no official integration with the Apigility admin UI yet. There is a repository for it (https://github.com/zfcampus/zf-apigility-admin-ui) but a quick browse of the open tickets shows it's not working yet. Someone has forked it and worked on it, but I haven't looked into it myself so I can't comment on it's readiness.
My suggestion is that if you want to learn how to integrate zf-apigility-doctrine into your Apigility the best way to do that right now is to take a look at Roll'n API (source here)
I want to use AWS products to build some application on it. For now, i want to test this -
1) Create a webpage hosted at AWS with a simple text box and a submit button, for checking if a number is prime.
2) Compile a C++ program on EC2 to accept a number and reply if it is prime.
Can someone list the steps involved in doing this?
(The above example mirrors simplistically the actual application that i have in mind, with a http frontend and a c++ backend)
If you use the default Linux AMI, you will gave a standard Apache installation ready to go. It sounds like the invocation style of your app is request-response, so at least to begin with, you could just use CGI to get Apache to run your app.
To achieve this, you would do something like this:
Create a static html page with a form and a submit button which passes the form data to your app via CGI
Install your app into an appropriate directory (see the Apache config for details) to run it via CGI, taking care to ensure the correct permissions are set
Have your app parse the CGI environment variables to gather the input
Perform the processing required
Generate the resulting output as an HTTP response (to get started, just use text/plain).
Please note that there are many security issues to keep in mind here, so it is very important to perform strict validation on all data supplied by the web user for escaping issues, buffer overflows and so on.
If you aren't familiar with the above, you will need to read up on HTML forms, Apache configuration and basic HTTP headers at at minimum. There are plenty of examples out there, and some great books covering the topic.
To this end, various libraries have been developed to facilitate this:
Which C++ Library for CGI Programming?
There are also many other options for interfacing your app with Apache, such as FastCGI.
My situation: I'm working on a web monitoring dashboard that assembles informations from different applications and sources and generate graphs, info graphics and reports.
The applications I'm trying to integrate are CACTI, Nagios, and other local private monitoring tools. I had no problem to integrate these applications, except for Nagios (I don't have much experience with it).
What I want to know is if there is a way to use Nagios as a Web Service, or something similar, so I can expose some of the informations and use it to generate my own reports on my dashboard application.
Is it possible to do that without any epic effort?
thanks for reading.
Nagios 4.x starting with version 4.4 now includes CGIs for JSON output. Installing the newest version of Nagios might be the easiest way to go.
See the announcement here.
Review the slides from Nagios World Conference 2013 here.
The Check_MK Multisite GUI (Web base GUI using MK Livestatus) offers a web service mode, where you can send queries/commands as URL parameters and get the response as JSON in the body.
The trick is: Create a view in the GUI, which fits your needs. Then extract the URL of that view and add the parameter output_format=json. Now you should have the output in a parsable format.
For example, this URL should give you a JSON list of all services:
check_mk/view.py?view_name=allservices&output_format=json
You can try:
1) MK Livestatus http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html
it's not web service but it can give current data without any complicated action. All you need redirect this data.
2)status-json plugin http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/JSON/status-2Djson/details which return data in JSON format.
3)NagiosWS plugin but I wasn't able to get to work it yet. I think it can be done for Nagios 2.x
4)GroundWork Foundation plugin. I think I will try use it now.
I was able to get to work 1 and 2 solution now.
Otherwise you can use Icinga which can give you some JSON or XML output. Icinga is fork of Nagios and can be installed with saving all your nagios data and plugins. At least it written on Icinga's site =) They have some other solution like PHP lib.
Sorry, I cannot post only 2 link while I'm newbie on this site.
Best regards.
Worked for me - MK Livestatus http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html it's not web service but it can give current data without any complicated action. All you need redirect this data.