Cloud Scripting Overview

Jelastic Cloud Scripting (CS) is a tool, designed to program the cloud platform behaviour related to your application lifecycle for automating frequent tasks, complex CI/CD flows and clustering configurations.

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There are three main pillars of cloud scripting:

  • Actions - scripted logic for executing a set of commands to automate the tasks. The system provides a default list of actions and possibility to script custom actions using API calls, Linux bash shell command, JS and Java scripts

  • Events - specific triggers for executing actions on a required application lifecycle stage

  • Injection - supplying default actions, placeholders, platform API methods, environment variables, request parameters and input settings in custom scripts by default

The developed Cloud Scripting solutions are wrapped into packages and distributed with Jelastic Packaging Standard (JPS). This is accomplished through preparing a manifest file in JSON format. Such packaged solutions can be effortlessly deployed to the platform via import functionality.

The example below represents the Cloud Scripting basic use case. This manifest declares the creation of a new environment with the Jelastic-certified Payara Micro cluster image and provides possibility to configure new cluster members while scaling nodes. Within the manifest, the following key parameters are declared:

  • nodes - a environment topology which will be created

  • onAfterScaleIn, onAfterScaleOut - scaling events

  • cmd - action to execute shell commands

  • updateNodes - custom action

  • baseUrl - external links relative path

    type: install
    name: Advanced Payara Micro Cluster
    baseUrl: https://github.com/jelastic-jps/payara/raw/master/addons
    
    nodes:
      count: 1
      cloudlets: 16
      nodeGroup: cp
      image: jelastic/payara-micro-cluster
      env:
        HAZELCAST_GROUP: ${fn.uuid}
        HAZELCAST_PASSWORD: ${fn.password}
      volumes:
        - /opt/payara/deployments
        - /opt/payara/config
        - /var/log
    
    onInstall:
      - forEach(nodes.cp):
          updateNodes:
            option: add
            ip: ${@i.intIP}
      - install: ${baseUrl}/application-storage/manifest.jps
    
    onAfterScaleOut[cp]:
      forEach(event.response.nodes):
        updateNodes:
          option: add
          ip: ${@i.intIP}
    
    onAfterScaleIn[cp]:
      forEach(event.response.nodes):
        updateNodes:
          option: remove
          ip: ${@i.intIP}
    
    actions:
     updateNodes:
       cmd[cp]: $PAYARA_PATH/bin/clusterManager.sh --${this.option}host ${this.ip}
    
    description: |
      Example: The package automatically provisions Payara Micro cluster, 
      mounts storage container and deploys test war applications.
    
    success: https://github.com/jelastic-jps/payara/blob/master/payara-micro-cluster-advanced/scripts/successText.md
    
    logo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jelastic-jps/payara/master/images/70.png
    homepage: http://docs.cloudscripting.com/
    
    {
      "type": "install",
      "name": "Advanced Payara Micro Cluster",
      "nodes": [{
        "count": 1,
        "cloudlets": 16,
        "nodeGroup": "cp",
        "image": "jelastic/payara-micro-cluster",
        "env": {
          "HAZELCAST_GROUP": "${fn.uuid}",
          "HAZELCAST_PASSWORD": "${fn.password}"
        },
        "volumes": [
          "/opt/payara/deployments",
          "/opt/payara/config",
          "/var/log"
        ]
      }],
      "onInstall": [
        {
          "forEach(nodes.cp)": {
            "updateNodes": {
              "option": "add",
              "ip": "${@i.intIP}"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "install": "${baseUrl}/application-storage/manifest.jps"
        }
      ],
      "onAfterScaleOut[cp]": {
        "forEach(event.response.nodes)": {
          "updateNodes": {
            "option": "add",
            "ip": "${@i.intIP}"
          }
        }
      },
      "onAfterScaleIn[cp]": {
        "forEach(event.response.nodes)": {
          "updateNodes": {
            "option": "remove",
            "ip": "${@i.intIP}"
          }
        }
      },
      "actions": {
        "updateNodes": {
          "cmd[cp]": "$PAYARA_PATH/bin/clusterManager.sh --${this.option}host ${this.ip}"
        }
      },
      "success": "https://github.com/jelastic-jps/payara/blob/master/payara-micro-cluster-advanced/scripts/successText.md",
      "baseUrl": "https://github.com/jelastic-jps/payara/raw/master/addons",
      "logo": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jelastic-jps/payara/master/images/70.png",
      "description": "Example: The package automatically provisions Payara Micro cluster, mounts storage container and deploys test war applications.",
      "homepage": "http://docs.cloudscripting.com/"
    }
    


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