Abstract

This document is the Software Manual for EC2Stack. The Software user manual instructs how to install and use the EC2Stack from a developer's perspective.

1 Introduction

1.1 Intended readership

This document covers the use for the following users of EC2Stack:

  • The Developer.

1.2 Applicability

This software user manual applies to EC2Stack, version 0.5.

1.3 Purpose

The purpose of the software user manual is to assist:

  • Developers on extending or modifying EC2Stack.

1.4 How to use this document

Section 2 includes information for a developer. This covers installation for development purposes, git repository location, test execution and the automated vagrant development environment.

2 Developer Information

2.1 The code base

The latest version of the EC2Stack code base can be found on github at https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-ec2stack

To clone the repository execute the following command:

$ git clone git@github.com:apache/cloudstack-ec2stack.git

2.2 Installation for development purposes

For developing EC2Stack it is recommended to run it in development mode. To do so install it using the following command:

$ python setup.py develop

EC2Stack will still need to be configured, this can be done so by executing ec2stack-configure as outlined in section 2 of this document.

You can start gstack in debug mode using the optional -d or --debug flag

$ ec2stack -d True

2.3 Test Execution

To run the included tests the following software is required:

  • pep8
  • pylint
  • nose
  • mock
  • coverage
  • factory-boy==1.3.0

These can be installed via the Python Package Index:

$ pip install pep8 pylint nose mock coverage factory-boy==1.3.0

Tests can be executed from the root of the code base as follows:

2.3.1 Style Check

$ pep8 --ignore=E501 *.py ec2stack

2.3.2 Lint

$ pylint --rcfile=pylint.rc *.py ec2stack

2.3.3 Unit Tests

$ nosetests --with-coverage --cover-erase --cover-package=ec2stack
--cover-html

A HTML base coverage report will be placed in ./cover

2.4 Vagrant Development Environment

Within the code base there is a VagrantFile and Puppet Manifests. Assuming you have vagrant installed and configured you can execute vagrant up.

This will bring up a new virtual machine configure with all necessary tools for development and the code base located at /vagrant``