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This is being created externally to the Cloudstack Codebase. Code is on github: https://github.com/NOPping/cloudstack-gce^{Image Removed}

Introduction

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gCloud will accept GCE based API calls, translate and pass them over to the Apache Cloudstack API, parse the response and return it in a suitable GCE format.

References

• Cloudstack API Documentation(https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.1/TOC_User.html)
• Google Compute Engine Documentation(https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/)

Design

gCloud is a Python application that uses Flask. It exposes a Google Compute Engine(GCE) complaint API.

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The following commands are currently supported in gClouds 0.0.1

• Disks
  • listdisks
  • getdisk
• Firewalls
  • addfirewall
  • deletefirewall
  • listfirewalls
  • getfirewall
• Images
  • listimages
  • getimage
• Instances
  • addinstance
  • deleteinstance
  • listinstances
  • getinstance
• Machinetypes
  • listmachinetypes
  • getmachinetype
• Project
  • getproject
• Zones
  • listzones
  • getzone

Authentication

Google compute engine uses OAuth2 for authentication. As Apache Cloudstack does not expose an OAuth2 Provider it was necessary to create a make-do work around for this.

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