ManageIQ

• ManageIQ
  • Hybrid Cloud Management Platform.
  • Base of Red Hat CloudForms.
  • Stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL.
  • Deployment: Appliance (CentOS based).
• Providers database architecture
• Gemfile

Components

• Provider: Connection to external systems (e.g., VMware vCenter, OpenStack, AWS, Kubernetes).
  • Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Storage.
• Region: Top-level wrapper in a multi-region deployment.
• Zone: Grouping of appliances for scalability and network segmentation.
• Appliance: A ManageIQ server instance.
  • Roles: User Interface, Provider Inventory, Automate, SmartProxy, etc.

Deployment & Setup

• Default Credentials: admin:smartvm

# Docker Deployment
# APP_ROOT /var/www/miq/vmdb/

# Run with persistence
docker run -d -e TZ=Asia/Shanghai \
  -p 8443:443 \
  -v $PWD/pgdata:/var/lib/pgsql/data \
  --name manageiq manageiq/manageiq

Automate

• State Machine based automation.
• Namespace: Container for classes.
• Class: Template/Definition.
• Instance: Concrete object.
• Method: Ruby script.
• Datastore: Directory structure for automation code.

Resources

• ManageIQ Documentation
• ManageIQ GitHub
• Redfish Specification
• Foreman

Kubernetes (Development info)

kubectl create ns management-infra
kubectl create sa -n management-infra management-admin
kubectl create clusterrolebinding management-infra-cluster-viewer --clusterrole=cluster-viewer --user=system:serviceaccount:management-infra:management-admin
# Get Token
kubectl describe secret -n management-infra $(kubectl get secrets -n management-infra | grep management-admin | cut -f1 -d ' ') | grep -E '^token' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr -d '\t'