How to Deploy an Application

Deploy an application in Stratus Cloud Workload Services as shown in the following example procedure.

To deploy an application:

1. Sign in as user IT Admin.
2. In the main menu, select Hypervisors to display the Hypervisors page.

3. On the Hypervisors page, tag the hypervisor for the required availability level; for example, Mission Critical ,Business Critical, or Commodity.

4. In the main menu, select Networks, and click the Connections tab to display the Connections page.
5. On the Connections page, update the connection types that are available to each network topology connection, as follows:
   • Select a connection type and click to display the Edit Connection panel.
   • Under Network Topologies, select All to make the connection type available to all topologies, or select the individual topologies that can use this connection type.

   • Under each network topology that you selected, next to each Environment entry, click the Provider Network dropdown menu and choose the network configuration for your cloud (the name of the provider network that you currently have). You must select the provider network for each environment in every network topology that you want to connect.

   • Modify other connection settings if applicable, and then click Save.
6. On the Networks page, click the Provider Networks tab to display the Provider Networks page.
7. On the Provider Networks page, update the provider network.
8. In the main menu, select Flavors to display the Flavors page.
9. On the Flavors page, click Add Flavor to display the Create New Flavor panel.
10. In the Create New Flavor panel, specify the following:
    • In the Namefield, type MyNew.tiny.
    • Set the State to Active.
    • Set Permission to All Tenants.
    • Set Resources as follows:
      • vCPU = 1
      • Root Disk = 1 GB
      • Ephemeral Disk = 1 GB
      • Swap Disk = 1 MB
      • Memory = 512 MB
      • Network = 1.0 Rxtx
    • Click Create. You are returned to the Flavors page; the new flavor displays in the list view.
11. Next, in the main menu, select Images to display the Images page.
12. On the Images page, click Add Image to display the Add Image panel.
13. In the Add Image panel, specify the following:
• In the Name field, type MyNew.cirros.
• Set the State to Active.
• For Disk Format, click the dropdown selector and click QCOW2.
• Properties: This section can be omitted.
• Set Permission to All Tenants.
• Upload Image: Download a CirrOS 0.3.2 qcow2 image to your desktop or shared drive from http://docs.OpenStack.org/image-guide/content/ch_obtaining_images.html . Then, under Upload Image, click Choose a fileto open the Choose File to Upload dialog box. Select the qcow2 image, and click Open.
• At the Service Level Definitions section, set the Hypervisor Type to KVM.
• Click Add. Your settings are saved and the image uploads. You are then returned to the Images page; your new image displays in the list view.
14. In the main menu, select Service Catalog Applications to display the Service Catalog Applications page.
15. On the Service Catalog Applications page, click Add Application to display the Create Catalog Application panel.
16. In the Create Catalog Application panel, specify the following:
    • In the Name field, type MyNewApp.
    • In the Application Category option, click the dropdown selector and click Linux.
    • Click Create. You are returned to the Service Catalog Applications page, and your new application displays in the list view.
17. On the Service Catalog Applications page, click Add Package to display the Create New Deployment Package panel.
18. In the Create New Deployment Package panel, specify the following:
    • Click Choose Application to display the Choose an Application panel.
    • In the Choose an Application panel, select MyNewApp. You are returned to the Create New Deployment Package panel, and MyNewApp displays in the Catalog Application Name field.
    • In the Name field, type MyNewDeployment.
    • For Permissions, select All Tenants.
    • Network Topologies / Add Network Topologies: Click the dropdown selector and select Default. This option provides the environments Development, Test, Production, and DisasterRecovery.
    • Deploy Images / Add Image: Click Add Image to display the Choose an Image panel.
    • In the Choose an Image panel, select MyNew.cirros.
    • In the Choose an Image panel under Deployment Package Image Name, specify the following:
      • In the Deployment Package Image Name field, Stratus suggests a deployment package image name based on the image name; for example, MyNew.cirros1.
      • Flavor: Choose the flavor MyNew.tiny. Note that for the CirrOS image, no SSH key is used.
      • Network: Click Add Network Definition, then use the dropdown menus to select Default Network and Default Network Subnet.
      • Service Level Definitions / Availability Level: Select an availability level previously specified on your hypervisor; for example, Business Critical.
      • Hypervisor Type: Select KVM.
      • Hypervisor Failure Recovery Mode: If you do not have shared storage, select Do not restart/recover.
      • Click Save. You are returned to the Create New Deployment Package panel, and your image displays in the Deploy Images field.
    • Under External Connections, click Add Connection and use the dropdown menus to specify the following:
      • Provider: Select the deployment package image that you just created.
      • Consumer: Select Allow all traffic to Internet.

      Adding an external connection assigns a floating IP address that you can use to ping this example application instance from outside the cloud. When creating your own deployment package, you can select a different Consumer to allow or limit network traffic as needed for your environment.

    • Under Service Level Definitions, select an availability level previously specified on your hypervisor; for example, Business Critical.
    • Set any other tag that is applicable, and then click Create to create the deployment package.
19. In the main menu, select Deployed Applications to display the Deployed Applications page.
20. On the Deployed Applications page, click Deploy Application to display the Service Catalog / Choose a Tenant page.
21. On the Service Catalog / Choose a Tenant page, select MyNewApp, and click Continue to display the Service Catalog / Default Tenant / Choose an Application page.
22. On the Service Catalog / Default Tenant / Choose an Application page, specify the following:
    • Select Default Tenant.
    • Select MyNewApp.
    • Specify the Availability Level.
    • Click MyNewDeployment.
    • Instance Name: Select MyNewCirros1.
    • Deployment Name: Type MyNewDeployment1.
    • Deploy to Environment: Select Development.
    • Click Deploy.
23. You are returned to the Deployed Applications page; the new application displays in the list view. Your new application shows a status of Creating. Click the new application to expand its view, and the instance MyNewCirros1 displays with the status of Creating. If needed, click Reload in your browser to refresh the status. The status for MyNewDeployment soon changes to Deployed. The status for MyNewCirros1 soon changes to Running.

See also:

Hypervisor Management Overview