Create a basic cloud template

In this Automation Assembler design example, you start with a cloud template that contains only minimal WordPress resources, such as having only one application server.

Automation Assembler is an infrastructure-as-code tool. You drag resources to the design canvas to get started. Then, you complete the details using the code editor to the right of the canvas.

The code editor allows you to type, cut, and paste code directly. If you're uncomfortable editing code, you can select a resource in the canvas, click the code editor Properties tab, and enter values there. Values that you enter appear in the code as if you had typed them directly.

Procedure

1. Go to Design > Cloud Templates and click New from > Blank canvas.
2. Name the cloud template Wordpress-BP.
3. Select the WordPress project, and click Create.
4. From the resources on the left of the cloud template design page, drag two cloud agnostic machines onto the canvas.
   The machines serve as WordPress application server (WebTier) and MySQL database server (DBTier).
5. On the right, edit the machine YAML code to add names, images, flavors, and constraint tags:

   resources:
     WebTier:
       type: Cloud.Machine    
       properties:     
           name: wordpress      
           image: ubuntu      
           flavor: small      
           constraints:        
               - tag: env:dev
     DBTier:    
       type: Cloud.Machine    
       properties:      
           name: mysql      
           image: ubuntu      
           flavor: small      
           constraints:        
               - tag: env:dev
   

6. Drag a cloud agnostic network to the canvas, and edit its code:

    WP-Network-Private:
       type: Cloud.Network
       properties:
           name: WP-Network-Private
           networkType: existing
   

7. Connect the machines to the network:

   In the canvas, hover over the network block, click and hold the bubble where the line touches the block, drag to a machine block, and release.

   When you create the connection lines, note that network code is automatically added to the machines in the editor.

   

8. Add user input prompting.

   In some places, the example infrastructure was set up for multiple options. For example:

   • Cloud zone environments for development, test, and production
   • Flavor mappings for small, medium, and large machines

   You might set a specific option directly in the cloud template, but a better approach is to let the user select the option at template deployment time. Prompting for user input lets you create one template that can be deployed many ways, instead of having many hard-coded templates.

   1. Create an inputs section in the code so that users can select machine size and target environment at deployment time. Define the selectable values:

      inputs:
        env:
          type: string
          enum:
            - env:dev
            - env:prod
            - env:test
          default: env:dev
          title: Environment
          description: Target Environment
        size:
          type: string
          enum:
            - small
            - medium
            - large
          description: Size of Nodes
          title: Tier Machine Size
      

   2. In the resources section of the code, add ${input.input-name} code to prompt for the user selection:

      resources:
        WebTier:
          type: Cloud.Machine    
          properties:     
              name: wordpress      
              image: ubuntu      
              flavor: '${input.size}'      
              constraints:        
                  - tag: '${input.env}'
              networks:
                  - network: '${resource["WP-Network-Private"].id}'
        DBTier:    
          type: Cloud.Machine    
          properties:      
              name: mysql      
              image: ubuntu      
              flavor: '${input.size}'      
              constraints:        
                  - tag: '${input.env}'
              networks:
                  - network: '${resource["WP-Network-Private"].id}'
        WP-Network-Private:
          type: Cloud.Network
          properties:
              name: WP-Network-Private
              networkType: existing
      

9. Finally, enhance the WebTier and DBTier code using the following examples. The WP-Network-Private code does not need additional changes.
   Note that the enhancements include login access to the database server and deployment-time cloudConfig initialization scripts.

   Component	Example
   Additional DBTier Inputs	username: type: string minLength: 4 maxLength: 20 pattern: '[a-z]+' title: Database Username description: Database Username userpassword: type: string pattern: '[a-z0-9A-Z@#$]+' encrypted: true title: Database Password description: Database Password
   DBTier Resource	DBTier: type: Cloud.Machine properties: name: mysql image: ubuntu flavor: '${input.size}' constraints: - tag: '${input.env}' networks: - network: '${resource["WP-Network-Private"].id}' assignPublicIpAddress: true remoteAccess: authentication: usernamePassword username: '${input.username}' password: '${input.userpassword}' cloudConfig: | #cloud-config repo_update: true repo_upgrade: all packages: - mysql-server runcmd: - sed -e '/bind-address/ s/^#*/#/' -i /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf - service mysql restart - mysql -e "CREATE USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mysqlpassword';" - mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%';" - mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" attachedDisks: []
   WebTier Resource	WebTier: type: Cloud.Machine properties: name: wordpress image: ubuntu flavor: '${input.size}' constraints: - tag: '${input.env}' networks: - network: '${resource["WP-Network-Private"].id}' assignPublicIpAddress: true cloudConfig: | #cloud-config repo_update: true repo_upgrade: all packages: - apache2 - php - php-mysql - libapache2-mod-php - mysql-client - gcc - make - autoconf - libc-dev - pkg-config - libmcrypt-dev - php-pear - php-dev runcmd: - mkdir -p /var/www/html/mywordpresssite && cd /var/www/html && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && tar -xzf /var/www/html/latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/mywordpresssite --strip-components 1 - i=0; while [ $i -le 10 ]; do mysql --connect-timeout=3 -h ${DBTier.networks[0].address} -u root -pmysqlpassword -e "SHOW STATUS;" && break || sleep 15; i=$((i+1)); done - mysql -u root -pmysqlpassword -h ${DBTier.networks[0].address} -e "create database wordpress_blog;" - mv /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php - pecl channel-update pecl.php.net - pecl update-channels - pecl install mcrypt - sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );"/"define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress_blog' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php && sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );"/"define( 'DB_USER', 'root' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php && sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );"/"define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'mysqlpassword' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php && sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );"/"define( 'DB_HOST', '${DBTier.networks[0].address}' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php - sed -i '950i extension=mcrypt.so' /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini - service apache2 reload

Example: Completed basic cloud template code example

formatVersion: 1
inputs: 
  env:
    type: string
    enum:
      - env:dev
      - env:prod
      - env:test
    default: env:dev
    title: Environment
    description: Target Environment
  size:
    type: string
    enum:
      - small
      - medium
      - large
    description: Size of Nodes
    title: Tier Machine Size
  username:
    type: string
    minLength: 4
    maxLength: 20
    pattern: '[a-z]+'
    title: Database Username
    description: Database Username
  userpassword:
    type: string
    pattern: '[a-z0-9A-Z@#$]+'
    encrypted: true
    title: Database Password
    description: Database Password
resources:
  WebTier:
    type: Cloud.Machine
    properties:
      name: wordpress
      image: ubuntu
      flavor: '${input.size}'
      constraints:
        - tag: '${input.env}'
      networks:
        - network: '${resource["WP-Network-Private"].id}'
          assignPublicIpAddress: true
      cloudConfig: |
        #cloud-config
        repo_update: true
        repo_upgrade: all
        packages:
        - apache2
        - php
        - php-mysql
        - libapache2-mod-php
        - mysql-client
        - gcc
        - make
        - autoconf
        - libc-dev
        - pkg-config
        - libmcrypt-dev
        - php-pear
        - php-dev
        runcmd:
        - mkdir -p /var/www/html/mywordpresssite && cd /var/www/html && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && tar -xzf /var/www/html/latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/mywordpresssite --strip-components 1
        - i=0; while [ $i -le 10 ]; do mysql --connect-timeout=3 -h ${DBTier.networks[0].address} -u root -pmysqlpassword -e "SHOW STATUS;" && break || sleep 15; i=$((i+1)); done
        - mysql -u root -pmysqlpassword -h ${DBTier.networks[0].address} -e "create database wordpress_blog;"
        - mv /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php
        - pecl channel-update pecl.php.net
        - pecl update-channels
        - pecl install mcrypt
        - sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );"/"define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress_blog' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php && sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );"/"define( 'DB_USER', 'root' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php && sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );"/"define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'mysqlpassword' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php && sed -i -e s/"define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );"/"define( 'DB_HOST', '${DBTier.networks[0].address}' );"/ /var/www/html/mywordpresssite/wp-config.php
        - sed -i '950i extension=mcrypt.so' /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini
        - service apache2 reload
  DBTier:
    type: Cloud.Machine
    properties:
      name: mysql
      image: ubuntu
      flavor: '${input.size}'
      constraints:
        - tag: '${input.env}'
      networks:
        - network: '${resource["WP-Network-Private"].id}'
          assignPublicIpAddress: true
      remoteAccess:
        authentication: usernamePassword
        username: '${input.username}'
        password: '${input.userpassword}'
      cloudConfig: |
        #cloud-config
        repo_update: true
        repo_upgrade: all
        packages:
        - mysql-server
        runcmd:
        - sed -e '/bind-address/ s/^#*/#/' -i /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
        - service mysql restart
        - mysql -e "CREATE USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mysqlpassword';" 
        - mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%';"
        - mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
      attachedDisks: []
  WP-Network-Private:
    type: Cloud.Network
    properties:
      name: WP-Network-Private
      networkType: existing

What to do next

Test the cloud template by checking the syntax and deploying it.