DevCloud is the CloudStack sandbox. It is provided as a Virtual Box appliance. It is meant to be used as a development environment to easily test new CloudStack development. It has also been used for training and CloudStack demos since it provides a Cloud in a box.
Nota
DevCloud is provided as a convenience by community members. It is not an official CloudStack release artifact.
The CloudStack source code however, contains tools to build your own DevCloud.
Avvertimento
DevCloud is under development and should be considered a Work In Progress (WIP), the wiki is the most up to date documentation:
Full sandbox. Where CloudStack is run within the DevCloud instance started in Virtual Box.
In this mode, the CloudStack management server runs within the instance and nested virtualization allows instantiation of tiny VMs within DevCloud itself. CloudStack code modifications are done within DevCloud.
The following diagram shows the architecture of the SandBox mode.
A deployment environment. Where CloudStack code is developed in the localhost of the developer and the resulting build is deployed within DevCloud
This mode was used in the testing procedure of CloudStack 4.0.0 incubating release. See the following screencast to see how: http://vimeo.com/54621457
A host-only mode. Where DevCloud is used only as a host. CloudStack management server is run in the localhost of the developer
This mode makes use of a host-only interface defined in the Virtual Box preferences. Check the following screencast to see how: http://vimeo.com/54610161
The following schematic shows the architecture of the Host-Only mode.
8.1.2. Building DevCloud
The DevCloud appliance can be downloaded from the wiki at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/DevCloud. It can also be built from scratch. Code is being developed to provide this alternative build. It is based on veewee, Vagrant and Puppet.
The goal is to automate the DevCloud build and make this automation capability available to all within the source release of CloudStack
Avvertimento
This is under heavy development. The code is located in the source tree under tools/devcloud
