Welcome to the Lago project documentation!

Lago Introduction

Lago is an add-hoc virtual framework which helps you build virtualized environments on your server or laptop for various use cases.

It currently utilizes ‘libvirt’ for creating VMs, but we are working on adding more providers such as ‘containers’.

Getting started

Installing Lago

Lago is officially supported and tested on Fedora 24+ and CentOS 7.3+ distributions. However, it should be fairly easy to install it on any Linux distribution that can run libvirt and qemu-kvm using pip, here we provide instructions also for Ubuntu 16.04 which we test from time to time. Feel free to open PR if you got it running on a distribution which is not listed here so it could be added.

pip

  1. Install system package dependencies:

    1. CentOS 7.3+
    $ yum install -y epel-release centos-release-qemu-ev
    $ yum install -y python-devel libvirt libvirt-devel \
        libguestfs-tools libguestfs-devel gcc libffi-devel \
        openssl-devel qemu-kvm-ev
    
    1. Fedora 24+
    $ dnf install -y python2-devel libvirt libvirt-devel \
        libguestfs-tools libguestfs-devel gcc libffi-devel \
        openssl-devel qemu-kvm
    
    1. Ubuntu 16.04+
    $ apt-get install -y python-dev build-essential libssl-dev \
        libffi-dev qemu-kvm libvirt-bin libvirt-dev pkg-config \
        libguestfs-tools libguestfs-dev
    
  2. Install libguestfs Python bindings, as they are not available on PyPI [3]_:

    $ pip install http://download.libguestfs.org/python/guestfs-1.36.4.tar.gz
    
  3. Install Lago with pip:

    $ pip install lago
    
  4. Setup permissions(replacing USERNAME accordingly):

    • Fedora / CentOS:

      $ sudo usermod -a -G qemu,libvirt USERNAME
      $ sudo usermod -a -G USERNAME qemu
      $ sudo chmod g+x $HOME
      
    • Ubuntu 16.04+ :

      $ sudo usermod -a -G libvirtd,kvm USERNAME
      $ chmod 0644 /boot/vmlinuz*
      
  5. Create a global share for Lago to store templates:

    $ sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/lago
    $ sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/lago/{repos,store,subnets}
    $ sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /var/lib/lago
    

    Note: If you’d like to store the templates in a different location look at the Configuration section, and change lease_dir, template_repos and template_store accordingly. This can be done after the installation is completed.

  6. Restart libvirt:

    $ systemctl restart libvirtd
    
  7. Log out and login again

Thats it! Lago should be working now. You can jump to Lago Examples.

RPM Based - Fedora 24+ / CentOS 7.3+

Install script
  1. Download the installation script and make it executable:

    $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lago-project/lago-demo/master/install_scripts/install_lago.sh \
        -o install_lago.sh \
        && chmod +x install_lago.sh
    
  2. Run the installation script(replacing username with your username):

    $ sudo ./install_lago.sh --user [username]
    
  3. Log out and login again.

Manual RPM installation
  1. Add the following repository to a new file at /etc/yum.repos.d/lago.repo:

    For Fedora:

    [lago]
    baseurl=http://resources.ovirt.org/repos/lago/stable/0.0/rpm/fc$releasever
    name=Lago
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0
    

    For CentOS:

    [lago]
    baseurl=http://resources.ovirt.org/repos/lago/stable/0.0/rpm/el$releasever
    name=Lago
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0
    

    For CentOS only, you need EPEL and centos-release-qemu-ev repositories, those can be installed by running:

    $ sudo yum install -y epel-release centos-release-qemu-ev
    
  2. With the Lago repository configured, run(for Fedora use dnf instead):

    $ sudo yum install -y lago
    
  3. Setup group permissions:

    $ sudo usermod -a -G lago USERNAME
    $ sudo usermod -a -G qemu USERNAME
    $ sudo usermod -a -G USERNAME qemu
    
  4. Add group execution rights to your home directory: [1]

    $ chmod g+x $HOME
    
  5. Restart libvirtd:

    $ sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
    $ sudo systemctl restart libvirtd
    
  6. Log out and login again.

FAQ

  • Q: After using the install script, how do I fix the permissions for another username?

    A: Run:

    $ ./install_lago.sh -p --user [new_user]
    
  • Q: Can Lago be installed in a Python virtualenv?

    A: Follow the same procedure as in the pip instructions, only run the

    pip installation under your virtualenv. Consult [3]_ if you want to install libguestfs Python bindings not from pip.

Troubleshooting

  • Problem: QEMU throws an error it can’t access files in my home directory.

    Solution: Check again that you have setup the permissions described in the Manual RPM Installation section. After doing that, log out and log in again. If QEMU has the proper permissions, the following command should work( replace some/nested/path with a directory inside your home directory):

    $ sudo -u qemu ls $HOME/some/nested/path
    

    For more information why this step is needed see https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html, at the bottom of “POSIX users/groups” section.

  • Problem: When trying to start the environment Libvirt throws the following error:

    libvirtError: internal error: Check the host setup: enabling IPv6
    forwarding with RA routes without accept_ra set to 2 is likely
    to cause routes loss. Interfaces to look at: INTERFACE
    

    Solution: Nat networks that created by Lago are IPv6 enabled by default. In the latest versions of Libvirt, accept_ra kernel parameter should be set to 2 in order to create IPv6 enabled networks. This can be achieved with the following command (replace INTERFACE with the name of the interface shown in the error message):

    echo 2 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/INTERFACE/accept_ra
    

    In order to apply and make this change permanent, use the following commands (don’t forget to specify your interface):

    echo "net.ipv6.conf.INTERFACE.accept_ra=2" | sudo tee -a "/etc/sysctl.conf"
    sudo sysctl -p
    
[1]If the installation script does not work for you on the supported distributions, please open an issue at h ttps://github.com/lago-project/lago-demo.git
[2]libguestfs Python bindings is unfortunately not available on PyPI, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075594 for current status. You may also use the system-wide package, if those are available for your distribution. In that case, if using a virtualenv, ensure you are creating it with ‘–system-site-packages’ option. For Fedora/CentOS the package is named python2-libguestfs, and for Ubuntu python-guestfs.

LagoInitFile Specification

Note: this is work under progress, if you’d like to contribute to the documentation, please feel free to open a PR. In the meanwhile, we recommend looking at LagoInitFile examples available at:

https://github.com/lago-project/lago-examples/tree/master/init-files

Each environment in Lago is created from an init file, the recommended format is YAML, although at the moment of writing JSON is still supported. By default, Lago will look for a file named LagoInitFile in the directory it was triggered. However you can pick a different file by running:

$ lago init <FILENAME>

Sections

The init file is composed out of two major sections: domains, and nets. Each virtual machine you wish to create needs to be under the domains section. nets will define the network topology, and when you add a nic to a domain, it must be defined in the nets section.

Example:

domains:
  vm-el73:
    memory: 2048
    service_provider: systemd
    nics:
      - net: lago
    disks:
      - template_name: el7.3-base
         type: template
         name: root
         dev: vda
         format: qcow2
    artifacts:
      - /var/log
nets:
  lago:
    type: nat
    dhcp:
      start: 100
      end: 254
    management: true
    dns_domain_name: lago.local
domains

<name>: The name of the virtual machine.

memory(int)
The virtual machine memory in GBs.
vcpu(int)
Number of virtual CPUs.
service_provider(string)
This will instruct which service provider to use when enabling services in the VM by calling lago.plugins.vm.VMPlugin.service(), Possible values: systemd, sysvinit.
cpu_model(string)

CPU Family to emulate for the virtual machine. The list of supported types depends on your hardware and the libvirtd version you use, to list them you can run locally:

$ virsh cpu-models x86_64
cpu_custom(dict)
This allows more fine-grained control of the CPU type, see CPU section for details.
nics(list)

Network interfaces. Each network interface must be defined in the global nets section. By default each nic will be assigned an IP according to the network definition. However, you may also use static IPs here, by writing:

nics:
    - net: net-01
      ip:  192.168.220.2

The same network can be declared multiple times for each domain.

disks(list)
type

Disk type, possible values:

template
A Lago template, this would normally the bootable device.
file
A local disk image. Lago will thinly provision it during init stage, this device will not be bootable. But can obviously be used for additional storage.
template_name(string)
Applies only to disks of type template. This should be one of the available Lago templates, see Templates section for the list.
size(string)
Disk size to thinly provision in GB. This is only supported in file disks.
format(string)
TO-DO: no docs yet..
device(string)
Linux device: vda, sdb, etc. Using a device named “sd*” will use virtio-scsi.
build(list)

This section should describe how to build/configure VMs. The build/configure action will happen during init.

virt-customize(dict)

Instructions to pass to virt-customize, where the key is the name of the option and the value is the arguments for that option.

This operation is only supported on disks which contains OS.

A special instruction is ssh-inject: '' Which will ensure Lago’s generated SSH keys will be injected into the VM. This is useful when you don’t want to run the bootstrap stage.

For example:

- template_name: el7.3-base
  build:
      - virt-customize:
            ssh-inject: ''
            touch: [/root/file1, /root/file2]

See build section for details.

artifacts(list)
Paths on the VM that Lago should collect when using lago collect from the CLI, or collect_artifacts() from the SDK.
groups(list)
Groups this VM belongs to. This is most usefull when deploying the VM with Ansible.
bootstrap(bool)
Whether to run bootstrap stage on the VM’s template disk, defaults to True.
ssh-user(string)
SSH user to use and configure, defaults to root
vm-provider(string)
VM Provider plugin to use, defaults to local-libvirt.
vm-type(string)
VM Plugin to use. A custom VM Plugin can be passed here, note that it needs to be available in your Python Entry points. See lago-ost-plugin for an example.
metadata(dict)
TO-DO: no docs yet..
nets

<name>: The name of the network.

type(string)
Type of the network. May be nat or bridge.

Lago SDK

The SDK goal is to automate the creation of virtual environments, by using Lago directly from Python. Currently, most CLI operations are supported from the SDK, though not all of them(specifically, snapshot and export).

Starting an environment from the SDK

Prerequirements
  1. Have Lago installed, see the installation notes.
  2. Create a LagoInitFile, check out LagoInitFile syntax for more details.
Prepare the environment

Note: This example is available as a Jupyter notebook here or converted to reST here.

Assuming the LagoInitFile is saved in /tmp/el7-init.yaml and contains:

domains:
  vm01:
    memory: 1024
    nics:
      - net: lago
    disks:
      - template_name: el7.3-base
        type: template
        name: root
        dev: sda
        format: qcow2
nets:
  lago:
    type: nat
    dhcp:
      start: 100
      end: 254

Which is a simple setup, containing one CentOS 7.3 virtual machine and one management network. Then you start the environment by running:

import logging
from lago import sdk

env = sdk.init(config='/tmp/el7-init.yaml',
               workdir='/tmp/my_test_env',
               logfile='/tmp/lago.log',
               loglevel=logging.DEBUG)
Where:
  1. config is the path to a valid init file, in YAML format.
  2. workdir is the place Lago will use to save the images and metadata.
  3. The logfile and loglevel parameters add a FileHandler to Lago’s root logger.

Note that if this is the first time you are running Lago it will first download the template(in this example el7-base), which might take a while [1]. You can follow up the progress by watching the log file, or alternatively if working in an interactive session, by running:

from lago import sdk
sdk.add_stream_logger()

Which will print all the Lago operations to stdout.

Starting the environment

Once init() method returns, the environment is ready to be started, taking up from the last example, executing:

env.start()

Would start the VMs specified in the init file, and make them available(among others) through SSH:

>>> vm = env.get_vms()['vm01']
>>> vm.ssh(['hostname', '-f'])
CommandStatus(code=0, out='vm01.lago.local\n', err='')

You can also run an interactive SSH session:

>>> res = vm.interactive_ssh()
[root@vm01 ~]# ls -lsah
total 20K
0 dr-xr-x---.  3 root root 103 May 28 03:11 .
0 dr-xr-xr-x. 17 root root 224 Dec 12 17:00 ..
4.0K -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  18 Dec 28  2013 .bash_logout
4.0K -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 176 Dec 28  2013 .bash_profile
4.0K -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 176 Dec 28  2013 .bashrc
4.0K -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 100 Dec 28  2013 .cshrc
0 drwx------.  2 root root  29 May 28 03:11 .ssh
4.0K -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 129 Dec 28  2013 .tcshrc
[root@vm01 ~]# exit
exit
>>> res.code
0
Controlling the environment

You can start or stop the environment by calling start() and stop(), finally you can destroy the environment with lago.sdk.SDK.destroy() method, note that it will stop all VMs, and remove the provided working directory.

>>> env.destroy()
>>>
Disk consumption for the workdir

Generally speaking, the workdir disk consumption depends on which operation you run inside the underlying VMs. Lago uses QCOW2 layered images by default, so that each environment you create, sets up its own layer on top of the original template Lago downloaded the first time init was ran with that specific template. So when the VM starts, it usually consumes less than 30MB. As you do more operations - the size might increase, as your current image diverges from the original template. For more information see qemu-img

Differences from the CLI

  1. Creating Different prefixes inside the workdir is not supported. In the CLI, you can have several prefixes inside a workdir. The reasoning behind that is that when working from Python, you can manage the environment directly by your own(using a temporary or fixed path).
  2. Logging - In the CLI, all log operations are kept in the current prefix under logs/lago.log path. The SDK keeps that convention, but allows you to add additional log files by passing log filename and level parameters to init() command. Additionally, you can work in debug mode, by logging all commands to stdout and stderr, calling the module-level method add_stream_logger(). Note that this will log everything for all environments.
  3. Prefix class. This is more of an implementation issue: the core per-environment operations are exposed both for the CLI and SDK in that class. In order to provide consistency and ease of use for the SDK, only the methods which make sense for SDK usage are exposed in the SDK, the CLI does not require that, as the methods aren’t exposed at all(only verbs in py.
[1]On a normal setup, where the templates are already downloaded, the init stage should take less than a minute(but probably at least 15 seconds).

Getting started with some Lago Examples!

Get Lago up & running in no time using one of the available examples

Important: make sure you followed the installation step before to have Lago installed.

Available Examples

Lago Templates

We maintain several templates which are publicly available here, and Lago will use them by default. We try to ensure each of those templates is fully functional out of the box. All templates are more or less the same as the standard cloud image for each distribution.

The templates specification and build scripts are managed in a different repository, and it should be fairly easy to create your own templates repository.

Available templates

Template name OS
el7-base CentOS 7.2
el7.3-base CentOS 7.3
el7.4-base CentOS 7.4
fc23-base Fedora 23
fc24-base Fedora 24
fc25-base Fedora 25
fc26-base Fedora 26
el6-base CentOS 6.7
debian8-base Debian 8
ubuntu16.04-base Ubuntu 16.04

Repository metadata

A templates repository should contain a repo.metadata file describing all available templates. The repository build script creates this file automatically. The file contains a serialized JSON object with the members detailed below. For an example, see the above repository’s metadata file.

name:
The name of the repository.

sources:

<name>: Name of a source.

type:
Source type. May be either http or file.
args:

Varies depending on the source type.

For an http source, should contain a baseurl member pointing to the root of the repository on the web.

For a file source, should contain a root member pointing to the root of the repository on the filesystem.

templates:

<name>: Unique template name.

versions:

<version>: Unique version string.

source:
Name of the source from which this template version was created.
timestamp:
Creation time of the template version.
handle:
Either a base file name of the template located in the root directory of the repository, or a root-relative path to the template file.

Configuration

The recommend method to override the configuration file is by letting lago auto-generate them:

$ mkdir -p $HOME/.config/lago
$ lago generate-config > $HOME/.config/lago/lago.conf

This will dump the current configuration to $HOME/.config/lago/lago.conf, and you may edit it to change any parameters. Take into account you should probably comment out parameters you don’t want to change when editing the file. Also, all parameters in the configuration files can be overridden by passing command line arguments or with environment variables, as described below.

lago.conf format

Lago runs without a configuration file by default, for reference-purposes, when lago is installed from the official packages(RPM or DEB), a commented-out version of lago.conf(INI format) is installed at /etc/lago/lago.conf.

In lago.conf global parameters are found under the [lago] section. All other sections usually map to subcommands(i.e. lago init command would be under [init] section).

Example:

$ lago generate-config
> [lago]
> # log level to use
> loglevel = info
> logdepth = 3
> ....
> [init]
> # location to store repos
> template_repos = /var/lib/lago/repos
> ...

lago.conf look-up

Lago attempts to look lago.conf in the following order:

  1. /etc/lago/lago.conf
  2. According to XDG standards , which are by default:
    • /etc/xdg/lago/lago.conf
    • /home/$USER/.config/lago/lago.conf
  3. Any environment variables.
  4. CLI passed arguments.

If more than one file exists, all files are merged, with the last occurrence of any parameter found used.

Overriding parameters with environment variables

To differentiate between the root section in the configuration file, lago uses the following format to look for environment variables:

'LAGO_GLOBAL_VAR' -> variable in [lago] section
'LAGO__SUBCOMMAND__PARAM_1' -> variable in [subcommand] section

Example: changing the template_store which init subcommand uses to store templates:

# check current value:
$ lago generate-config | grep -A4 "init"
> [init]
> # location to store repos
> template_repos = /var/lib/lago/repos
> # location to store temp
> template_store = /var/lib/lago/store

$ export LAGO__INIT__TEMPLATE_STORE=/var/tmp
$ lago generate-config | grep -A4 "init"
> [init]
> # location to store repos
> template_repos = /var/lib/lago/repos
> # location to store temp
> template_store = /var/tmp

Lago build

Lago allows to build / configure VM disks during init stage. In the init file, the key build should be added to each disk that needs to be configured.

build should map to a list of Builders, where each builder in the list is a one entry dictionary that maps to a dictionary that holds the options for that builder.

Options are key-value pairs, where the key is the name of the option (without leading dashes), and the value is the argument for that option. If the option takes no arguments, the empty string should be set as the value. If the builder allows specifying an options multiple times, the value should be a list of arguments.

Note: The build process runs “behind-the-back” of the OS (Before the VM starts), thus should be used with care.

Builders

Builders are commands that can be used to build/configure VMs. Builders are called by the order they appear in the init file.

virt-customize

A tool for customizing a virtual machine (install packages, copying files, etc…). virt-customize is part of the libguestfs tool set which is part of Lago’s dependencies.

virt-customize can be called only on disks which contains an OS.

Depends on the version of virt-customize installed on your system (it can vary between different OS), all the valid options for virt-customize can be specified in the init file. For the full list of options please refer to virt-customize documentation.

There is a special case when using virt-customize to inject ssh keys. If the empty string is provided to ssh-inject option, Lago will replace it with the path to lago’s self generated ssh keys.

Note: If SELinux is enabled in a VM, it’s possible that selinux-relabel will be required after adding / modifiyng its files.

Relation to bootstrap

Configuration is taking place after Lago runs bootstrap. You can disable bootstrap to all VMs by passing --skip-bootstrap to lago init, or by adding bootstrap: false to the VM definition in the init file (the second allows to control bootstrap per VM).

Since bootstrap is injecting ssh keys to the VMs, If skipping it, it’s recommended to inject the ssh keys using virt-customize builder otherwise, shell access to the VM will use password authentication (more details can be found in the Builders sections in this documents).

Example

In the following example, virt-customize builder will be called on the disk of vm01.

The changes will be:

  • Injecting lago’s self generated ssh keys.
  • Copy dummy_file from the host to /root in vm01
  • Create files /root/file1 and /root/file2 in vm01
  • Finish with SELinux relabel of vm01.
domains:
  vm01:
    artifacts: [/var/log]
    bootstrap: false
    disks:
    - build:
      - virt-customize:
          ssh-inject: ''
          copy: dummy_file:/root
          touch: [/root/file1, /root/file2]
          selinux-relabel: ''
      dev: vda
      format: qcow2
      name: root
      path: $LAGO_INITFILE_PATH/lago-basic-suite-4-1-engine_root.qcow2
      template_name: el7.3-base
      template_type: qcow2
      type: template

Lago CPU Models in detail

There are several ways you can configure the CPU model Lago will use for each VM. This section tries to explain more in-depth how it will be mapped to libvirt XML.

  • vcpu: Number of virtual CPUs.

  • cpu_model: <model>: This defines an exact match of a CPU model. The generated Libvirt <cpu> XML will be:

    <cpu>
        <model>Westmere</model>
        <topology cores="1" sockets="3" threads="1"/>
        <feature name="vmx" policy="require"/>
    </cpu>
    

    If the vendor of the host CPU and the selected model match, it will attempt to require vmx on Intel CPUs and svm on AMD CPUs, assuming the host CPU has that feature. The topology node will be generated with sockets equals to vcpu parameter, by default it is set to 2.

  • cpu_custom: This allows to override entirely the CPU definition, by writing the domain CPU XML in YAML syntax, for example, for the following LagoInitFile:

    domains:
      vm-el73:
        vcpu: 2
        cpu_custom:
          '@mode': custom
          '@match': exact
          model:
            '@fallback': allow
            '#text': Westmere
          feature:
            '@policy': optional
            '@name': 'vmx'
          numa:
            cell:
              -
                '@id': 0
                '@cpus': 0
                '@memory': 2048
                '@unit': 'MiB'
              -
                '@id': 1
                '@cpus': 1
                '@memory': 2048
                '@unit': 'MiB'
      ...
    

    This will be the generated <cpu> XML:

    <cpu mode="custom" match="exact">
        <model fallback="allow">Westmere</model>
        <feature policy="optional" name="vmx"/>
        <numa>
            <cell id="0" cpus="0" memory="2048" unit="MiB"/>
            <cell id="1" cpus="1" memory="2048" unit="MiB"/>
        </numa>
        <topology cores="1" sockets="2" threads="1"/>
    </cpu>
    <vcpu>2</vcpu>
    

    The conversion is pretty straight-forward, @ maps to attribute, and #text to text fields. If topology section is not defined, it will be added.

  • No cpu_custom or cpu_model: Then Libvirt’s host-passthrough will be used. For more information see: Libvirt CPU model

Developing

CI Process

Here is described the usual workflow of going through the CI process from starting a new branch to getting it merged and released in the unstable repo.

Starting a branch

First of all, when starting to work on a new feature or fix, you have to start a new branch (in your fork if you don’t have push rights to the main repo). Make sure that your branch is up to date with the project’s master:

git checkout -b my_fancy_feature
# in case that origin is already lago-project/lago
git reset --hard origin/master

Then, once you can just start working, doing commits to that branch, and pushing to the remote from time to time as a backup.

Once you are ready to run the ci tests, you can create a pull request to master branch, if you have hub installed you can do so from command line, if not use the ui:

$ hub pull-request

That will automatically trigger a test run on ci, you’ll see the status of the run in the pull request page. At that point, you can keep working on your branch, probably just rebasing on master regularly and maybe amending/squashing commits so they are logically meaningful.

A clean commit history

An example of not good pull request history:

  • Added right_now parameter to virt.VM.start function
  • Merged master into my_fancy_feature
  • Added tests for the new parameter case
  • Renamed right_now parameter to sudo_right_now
  • Merged master into my_fancy_feature
  • Adapted test to the rename

This history can be greatly improved if you squashed a few commits:

  • Added sudo_right_now parameter to virt.VM.start function
  • Added tests for the new parameter case
  • Merged master into my_fancy_feature
  • Merged master into my_fancy_feature

And even more if instead of merging master, you just rebased:

  • Added sudo_right_now parameter to virt.VM.start function
  • Added tests for the new parameter case

That looks like a meaningful history :)

Rerunning the tests

While working on your branch, you might want to rerun the tests at some point, to do so, you just have to add a new comment to the pull request with one of the following as content:

  • ci test please
  • ci :+1:
  • ci :thumbsup:

Asking for reviews

If at any point, you see that you are not getting reviews, please add the label ‘needs review’ to flag that pull request as ready for review.

Getting the pull request merged

Once the pull request has been reviewed and passes all the tests, an admin can start the merge process by adding a comment with one of the following as content:

  • ci merge please
  • ci :shipit:

That will trigger the merge pipeline, that will run the tests on the merge commit and deploy the artifacts to the unstable repo on success.

Environment setup

Here are some guidelines on how to set up your development of the lago project.

Requirements

You’ll need some extra packages to get started with the code for lago, assuming you are runnig Fedora:

> sudo dnf install git mock libvirt-daemon qemu-kvm autotools

And you’ll need also a few Python libs, which you can install from the repos or use venv or similar, for the sake of this example we will use the repos ones:

> sudo dnf install python-flake8 python-nose python-dulwich yapf

Yapf is not available on older Fedoras or CentOS, you can get it from the official yapf repo or try on copr.

Now you are ready to get the code:

> git clone git@github.com:lago-project/lago.git

From now on all the commands will be based from the root of the cloned repo:

> cd lago

Style formatting

We will accept only patches that pass pep8 and that are formatted with yapf. More specifically, only patches that pass the local tests:

> make check-local

It’s recommended that you setup your editor to check automatically for pep8 issues. For the yapf formatting, if you don’t want to forget about it, you can install the pre-commit git hook that comes with the project code:

> ln -s scripts/pre-commit.style .git/pre-commit

Now each time that you run git commit it will automatically reformat the code you changed with yapf so you don’t have any issues when submitting a patch.

Testing your changes

Once you do some changes, you should make sure they pass the checks, there’s no need to run on each edition but before submitting a patch for review you should do it.

You can run them on your local machine, but the tests themselves will install packages and do some changes to the os, so it’s really recommmended that you use a vm, or as we do on the CI server, use mock chroots. If you don’t want to setup mock, skip the next section.

Hopefully in a close future we can use lago for that ;)

Setting up mock_runner.sh with mock (fedora)

For now we are using a script developed by the oVirt devels to generate chroots and run tests inside them, it’s not packaged yet, so we must get the code itself:

> cd ..
> git clone git://gerrit.ovirt.org/jenkins

As an alternative, you can just download the script and install them in your $PATH:

> wget https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=jenkins.git;a=blob_plain;f=mock_configs/mock_runner.sh;hb=refs/heads/master

We will need some extra packages:

> sudo dnf install mock

And, if not running as root (you shouldn’t!) you have to add your user to the newly created mock group, and make sure the current session is in that group:

> sudo usermod -a -G mock $USER
> newgrp mock
> id  # check that mock is listed
Running the tests inside mock

Now we have all the setup we needed, so we can go back to the lago repo and run the tests, the first time you run them, it will take a while to download all the required packages and install them in the chroot, but on consecutive runs it will reuse all the cached chroots.

The mock_runner.sh script allows us to test also different distributions, any that is supported by mock, for example, to run the tests for fedora 23 you can run:

> ../jenkins/mock_runner.sh -p fc23

That will run all the check-patch.sh (the -p option) tests inside a chroot, with a minimal fedora 23 installation. It will leave any logs under the logs directory and any generated artifacts under exported-artifacts.

Getting started developing

Everyone is welcome to send patches to lago, but we know that not everybody knows everything, so here’s a reference list of technologies and methodologies that lago uses for reference.

Python!

Lago is written in python 2.7 (for now), so you should get yourself used to basic-to-medium python constructs and technics like:

  • Basic python: Built-in types, flow control, pythonisms (import this)
  • Object oriented programming (OOP) in python: Magic methods, class inheritance

Some useful resources:

  • Base docs: https://docs.python.org/2.7/

  • Built-in types: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html

  • About classes: https://docs.python.org/2.7/reference/datamodel.html#new-style-and-classic-classes

  • The Zen of Python:

    > python -c "import this"
    
    The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
    
    Beautiful is better than ugly.
    Explicit is better than implicit.
    Simple is better than complex.
    Complex is better than complicated.
    Flat is better than nested.
    Sparse is better than dense.
    Readability counts.
    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
    Although practicality beats purity.
    Errors should never pass silently.
    Unless explicitly silenced.
    In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
    Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
    Now is better than never.
    Although never is often better than *right* now.
    If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
    If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
    Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
    

Bash

Even though there is not much bash code, the functional tests and some support scripts use it, so better to get some basics on it. We will try to follow the same standards for it than the oVirt project has.

Libvirt + qemu/kvm

As we are using intesively libvirt and qemu/kvm, it’s a good idea to get yourself familiar with the main commands and services:

Also, there’s a library and a set of tools from the libguestfs project that we use to prepare templates and are very useful when debugging, make sure you play at least with virt-builder, virt-customize, virt-sparsify and guestmount.

Git + Github

We use git as code version system, and we host it on Github right now, so if you are not familiar with any of those tools, you should get started with them, specially you should be able to:

  • Clone a repo from github
  • Fork a repo from github
  • Create/delete/move to branches (git checkout)
  • Move to different points in git history (git reset)
  • Create/delete tags (git tag)
  • See the history (git log)
  • Create/amend commits (git commit)
  • Retrieve changes from the upstream repository (git fetch)
  • Apply your changes on top of the retrieved ones (git rebase)
  • Apply your changes as a merge commit (git merge)
  • Squash/reorder existing commits (git rebase –interactive)
  • Send your changes to the upstream (git push)
  • Create a pull request

You can always go to the git docs though there is a lot of good literature on it too.

Unit tests with py.test

Lately we decided to use py.test for the unit tests, and all the current unit tests were migrated to it. We encourage adding unit tests to any pull requests you send.

Functional tests with bats

For the functional tests, we decided to use bats framework. It’s completely written in bash, and if you are modifying or adding any functionality, you should add/modify those tests accordingly. It has a couple of custom constructs, so take a look to the bats docs while reading/writing tests.

Packaging

Our preferred distribution vector is though packages. Right now we are only building for rpm-based system, so right now you can just take a peek on how to build rpms. Keep in mind also that we try to move as much of the packaging logic as posible to the python packaging system itself too, worth getting used to it too.

Where to go next

You can continue setting up your environment and try running the examples in the readme to get used to lago. Once you get familiar with it, you can pick any of the existing issues and send a pull request to fix it, so you get used to the ci process we use to get stuff developed flawlessly and quickly, welcome!

Contents

lago package

Subpackages

lago.plugins package
exception lago.plugins.NoSuchPluginError[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.PluginError

lago.plugins.PLUGIN_ENTRY_POINTS = {'cli': 'lago.plugins.cli', 'out': 'lago.plugins.output', 'vm': 'lago.plugins.vm', 'vm-provider': 'lago.plugins.vm_provider', 'vm-service': 'lago.plugins.vm_service'}

Map of plugin type string -> setuptools entry point

class lago.plugins.Plugin[source]

Bases: object

Base class for all the plugins

exception lago.plugins.PluginError[source]

Bases: exceptions.Exception

lago.plugins._load_plugins(namespace, instantiate=True)[source]

Loads all the plugins for the given namespace

Parameters:
  • namespace (str) – Namespace string, as in the setuptools entry_points
  • instantiate (bool) – If true, will instantiate the plugins too
Returns:

Returns the list of loaded plugins

Return type:

dict of str, object

lago.plugins.load_plugins(namespace, instantiate=True)[source]
Submodules
lago.plugins.cli module

About CLIPlugins

A CLIPlugin is a subcommand of the lagocli command, it’s ment to group actions together in a logical sense, for example grouping all the actions done to templates.

To create a new subcommand for testenvcli you just have to subclass the CLIPlugin abstract class and declare it in the setuptools as an entry_point, see this module’s setup.py/setup.cfg for an example:

class NoopCLIplugin(CLIPlugin):
    init_args = {
        'help': 'dummy help string',
    }

    def populate_parser(self, parser):
        parser.addArgument('--dummy-flag', action='store_true')

    def do_run(self, args):
        if args.dummy_flag:
            print "Dummy flag passed to noop subcommand!"
        else:
            print "Dummy flag not passed to noop subcommand!"

You can also use decorators instead, an equivalent is:

@cli_plugin_add_argument('--dummy-flag', action='store_true')
@cli_plugin(help='dummy help string')
def my_fancy_plugin_func(dummy_flag, **kwargs):
    if dummy_flag:
        print "Dummy flag passed to noop subcommand!"
    else:
        print "Dummy flag not passed to noop subcommand!"

Or:

@cli_plugin_add_argument('--dummy-flag', action='store_true')
def my_fancy_plugin_func(dummy_flag, **kwargs):
    "dummy help string"
    if dummy_flag:
        print "Dummy flag passed to noop subcommand!"
    else:
        print "Dummy flag not passed to noop subcommand!"

Then you will need to add an entry_points section in your setup.py like:

setup(
    ...
    entry_points={
        'lago.plugins.cli': [
            'noop=noop_module:my_fancy_plugin_func',
        ],
    }
    ...
)

Or in your setup.cfg like:

[entry_points]
lago.plugins.cli =
    noop=noop_module:my_fancy_plugin_func

Any of those will add a new subcommand to the lagocli command that can be run as:

$ lagocli noop
Dummy flag not passed to noop subcommand!

TODO: Allow per-plugin namespacing to get rid of the **kwargs parameter

class lago.plugins.cli.CLIPlugin[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.Plugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
do_run(args)[source]

Execute any actions given the arguments

Parameters:args (Namespace) – with the arguments
Returns:None
init_args

Dictionary with the argument to initialize the cli parser (for example, the help argument)

populate_parser(parser)[source]

Add any required arguments to the parser

Parameters:parser (ArgumentParser) – parser to add the arguments to
Returns:None
class lago.plugins.cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper(do_run=None, init_args=None)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.cli.CLIPlugin

Special class to handle decorated cli plugins, take into account that the decorated functions have some limitations on what arguments can they define actually, if you need something complicated, used the abstract class CLIPlugin instead.

Keep in mind that right now the decorated function must use **kwargs as param, as it will be passed all the members of the parser, not just whatever it defined

__call__(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Keep the original function interface, so it can be used elsewhere

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
add_argument(*argument_args, **argument_kwargs)[source]
do_run(args)[source]

Execute any actions given the arguments

Parameters:args (Namespace) – with the arguments
Returns:None
init_args
populate_parser(parser)[source]

Add any required arguments to the parser

Parameters:parser (ArgumentParser) – parser to add the arguments to
Returns:None
set_help(help=None)[source]
set_init_args(init_args)[source]
lago.plugins.cli.cli_plugin(func=None, **kwargs)[source]

Decorator that wraps the given function in a CLIPlugin

Parameters:
  • func (callable) – function/class to decorate
  • **kwargs – Any other arg to use when initializing the parser (like help, or prefix_chars)
Returns:

cli plugin that handles that method

Return type:

CLIPlugin

Notes

It can be used as a decorator or as a decorator generator, if used as a decorator generator don’t pass any parameters

Examples

>>> @cli_plugin
... def test(**kwargs):
...     print 'test'
...
>>> print test.__class__
<class 'cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper'>
>>> @cli_plugin()
... def test(**kwargs):
...     print 'test'
>>> print test.__class__
<class 'cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper'>
>>> @cli_plugin(help='dummy help')
... def test(**kwargs):
...     print 'test'
>>> print test.__class__
<class 'cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper'>
>>> print test.init_args['help']
'dummy help'
lago.plugins.cli.cli_plugin_add_argument(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Decorator generator that adds an argument to the cli plugin based on the decorated function

Parameters:
  • *args – Any args to be passed to argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument()
  • *kwargs – Any keyword args to be passed to argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument()
Returns:

Decorator that builds or extends the cliplugin for the

decorated function, adding the given argument definition

Return type:

function

Examples

>>> @cli_plugin_add_argument('-m', '--mogambo', action='store_true')
... def test(**kwargs):
...     print 'test'
...
>>> print test.__class__
<class 'cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper'>
>>> print test._parser_args
[(('-m', '--mogambo'), {'action': 'store_true'})]
>>> @cli_plugin_add_argument('-m', '--mogambo', action='store_true')
... @cli_plugin_add_argument('-b', '--bogabmo', action='store_false')
... @cli_plugin
... def test(**kwargs):
...     print 'test'
...
>>> print test.__class__
<class 'cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper'>
>>> print test._parser_args # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
[(('-b', '--bogabmo'), {'action': 'store_false'}),
 (('-m', '--mogambo'), {'action': 'store_true'})]
lago.plugins.cli.cli_plugin_add_help(help)[source]

Decorator generator that adds the cli help to the cli plugin based on the decorated function

Parameters:help (str) – help string for the cli plugin
Returns:
Decorator that builds or extends the cliplugin for the
decorated function, setting the given help
Return type:function

Examples

>>> @cli_plugin_add_help('my help string')
... def test(**kwargs):
...     print 'test'
...
>>> print test.__class__
<class 'cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper'>
>>> print test.help
my help string
>>> @cli_plugin_add_help('my help string')
... @cli_plugin()
... def test(**kwargs):
...     print 'test'
>>> print test.__class__
<class 'cli.CLIPluginFuncWrapper'>
>>> print test.help
my help string
lago.plugins.output module

About OutFormatPlugins

An OutFormatPlugin is used to format the output of the commands that extract information from the perfixes, like status.

class lago.plugins.output.DefaultOutFormatPlugin[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.output.OutFormatPlugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
format(info_obj, indent='')[source]

Execute any actions given the arguments

Parameters:info_dict (dict) – information to reformat
Returns:String representing the formatted info
Return type:str
indent_unit = ' '
class lago.plugins.output.FlatOutFormatPlugin[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.output.OutFormatPlugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
format(info_dict, delimiter='/')[source]

This formatter will take a data structure that represent a tree and will print all the paths from the root to the leaves

in our case it will print each value and the keys that needed to get to it, for example:

vm0:
net: lago memory: 1024

will be output as:

vm0/net/lago vm0/memory/1024

Args:
info_dict (dict): information to reformat delimiter (str): a delimiter for the path components
Returns:
str: String representing the formatted info
class lago.plugins.output.JSONOutFormatPlugin[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.output.OutFormatPlugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
format(info_dict)[source]

Execute any actions given the arguments

Parameters:info_dict (dict) – information to reformat
Returns:String representing the formatted info
Return type:str
class lago.plugins.output.OutFormatPlugin[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.Plugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
format(info_dict)[source]

Execute any actions given the arguments

Parameters:info_dict (dict) – information to reformat
Returns:String representing the formatted info
Return type:str
class lago.plugins.output.YAMLOutFormatPlugin[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.output.OutFormatPlugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
format(info_dict)[source]

Execute any actions given the arguments

Parameters:info_dict (dict) – information to reformat
Returns:String representing the formatted info
Return type:str
lago.plugins.service module
Service Plugin

This plugins are used in order to manage services in the vms

class lago.plugins.service.ServicePlugin(vm, name)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.Plugin

BIN_PATH

Path to the binary used to manage services in the vm, will be checked for existence when trying to decide if the serviece is supported on the VM (see func:is_supported).

Returns:Full path to the binary insithe the domain
Return type:str
_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_request_start()[source]

Low level implementation of the service start request, used by the func:start method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to start, False otherwise
Return type:bool
_request_stop()[source]

Low level implementation of the service stop request, used by the func:stop method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to stop, False otherwise
Return type:bool
alive()[source]
exists()[source]
classmethod is_supported(vm)[source]
start()[source]
state()[source]

Check the current status of the service

Returns:Which state the service is at right now
Return type:ServiceState
stop()[source]
class lago.plugins.service.ServiceState[source]

Bases: enum.Enum

ACTIVE = 2
INACTIVE = 1
MISSING = 0

This state corresponds to a service that is not available in the domain

lago.plugins.vm module
VM Plugins

There are two VM-related plugin extension points, there’s the VM Type Plugin, that allows you to modify at a higher level the inner workings of the VM class (domain concept in the initfile). The other plugin extension point, the [VM Provider Plugin], that allows you to create an alternative implementation of the provisioning details for the VM, for example, using a remote libvirt instance or similar.

exception lago.plugins.vm.ExtractPathError[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.vm.VMError

exception lago.plugins.vm.ExtractPathNoPathError(err)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.vm.VMError

exception lago.plugins.vm.LagoCopyFilesFromVMError(remote_files, local_files, err='')[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoUserException

exception lago.plugins.vm.LagoCopyFilesToVMError(local_files, err)[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoUserException

exception lago.plugins.vm.LagoFailedToGetVMStateError[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

exception lago.plugins.vm.LagoVMDoesNotExistError[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

exception lago.plugins.vm.LagoVMNotRunningError(vm_name)[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoUserException

exception lago.plugins.vm.VMError[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

class lago.plugins.vm.VMPlugin(env, spec)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.Plugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_artifact_paths()[source]
_detect_service_provider()[source]
_get_service_provider()[source]

NOTE: Can be reduced to just one get call once we remove support for the service_class spec entry :returns: class for the loaded provider for that vm_spec

None: if no provider was specified in the vm_spec
Return type:class
_get_vm_provider()[source]
classmethod _normalize_spec(spec)[source]
_scp(**kwds)[source]
_ssh(**kwds)[source]
_template_metadata()[source]
all_ips()[source]
bootstrap(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

collect_artifacts(host_path, ignore_nopath)[source]
copy_from(remote_path, local_path, recursive=True, propagate_fail=True)[source]
copy_to(local_path, remote_path, recursive=True)[source]
cpu_model
cpu_vendor
create_snapshot(name, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

disks
distro()[source]
export_disks(standalone=True, dst_dir=None, compress=False, collect_only=False, with_threads=True, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

extract_paths(paths, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

extract_paths_dead(paths, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

groups
The names of the groups to which this vm belongs
(as specified in the init file)
Type:Returns
Type:list of str
guest_agent()[source]
has_guest_agent()[source]
interactive_console(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

interactive_ssh(*args, **kwargs)[source]
ip()[source]
ips_in_net(net_name)[source]
iscsi_name()[source]
metadata
mgmt_name
mgmt_net
name()[source]
nets()[source]
nics()[source]
reboot(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

revert_snapshot(name, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

root_password()[source]
running(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

save(path=None)[source]
service(*args, **kwargs)[source]
shutdown(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

spec
ssh(command, data=None, show_output=True, propagate_fail=True, tries=None)[source]
ssh_reachable(tries=None, propagate_fail=True)[source]

Check if the VM is reachable with ssh :param tries: Number of tries to try connecting to the host :type tries: int :param propagate_fail: If set to true, this event will appear :type propagate_fail: bool :param in the log and fail the outter stage. Otherwise, it will be: :param discarded.:

Returns:True if the VM is reachable.
Return type:bool
ssh_script(path, show_output=True)[source]
start(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

state(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

stop(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Thin method that just uses the provider

vm_type
wait_for_ssh()[source]
class lago.plugins.vm.VMProviderPlugin(vm)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.Plugin

If you want to use a custom provider for you VMs (say, ovirt for example), you have to inherit from this class, and then define the ‘default_vm_provider’ in your config to be your plugin, or explicitly specify it on each domain definition in the initfile with ‘vm-provider’ key You will have to override at least all the abstractmethods in order to write a provider plugin, even if they are just runnig pass.

_extract_paths_scp(*args, **kwargs)[source]
_extract_paths_tar_gz(*args, **kwargs)[source]
_has_tar_and_gzip(*args, **kwargs)[source]
_pipe_ssh_cmd_output_to_file(cmd, out_file)[source]
static _prepare_tar_gz_command(remote_paths, compression_level)[source]
_remote_paths_extracted_to_temp_dir(**kwds)[source]
_tar_gz_archive_from(**kwds)[source]
bootstrap(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Does any actions needed to get the domain ready to be used, ran on prefix init. :returns: None

create_snapshot(name, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Take any actions needed to create a snapshot :param name: Name for the snapshot, will be used as key to retrieve

it later
Returns:None
export_disks(standalone, dst_dir, compress, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Export ‘disks’ as a standalone image or a layered image. :param disks: The names of the disks to export

(None means all the disks)
Parameters:
  • standalone (bool) – If true create a copy of the layered image else create a new disk which is a combination of the current layer and the base disk.
  • dst_dir (str) – dir to place the exported images
  • compress (bool) – if true, compress the exported image.
extract_paths(paths, ignore_nopath)[source]

Extract the given paths from the domain :param paths: paths to extract :type paths: list of str :param ignore_nopath: if True will ignore none existing paths. :type ignore_nopath: boolean

Returns:

None

Raises:
extract_paths_dead(paths, ignore_nopath)[source]

Extract the given paths from the domain, without the underlying OS awareness

interactive_console()[source]

Run an interactive console :returns: resulf of the interactive execution :rtype: lago.utils.CommandStatus

name()[source]
reboot(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Reboot a domain :returns: None

revert_snapshot(name, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Take any actions needed to revert/restore a snapshot :param name: Name for the snapshot, same that was set on creation :type name: str

Returns:None
running(*args, **kwargs)[source]
Returns:True if the VM is running
Return type:(bool)
shutdown(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Shutdown a domain :returns: None

start(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Start a domain :returns: None

state(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Return the current state of the domain :returns: Small description of the current domain state :rtype: str

stop(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Stop a domain :returns: None

lago.plugins.vm._resolve_service_class(class_name, service_providers)[source]

NOTE: This must be remved once the service_class spec entry is fully deprecated Retrieves a service plugin class from the class name instead of the provider name :param class_name: Class name of the service plugin to retrieve :type class_name: str :param service_providers: provider_name->provider_class of the loaded

service providers
Returns:Class of the plugin that matches that name
Return type:class
Raises:lago.plugins.NoSuchPluginError – if there was no service plugin that matched the search
lago.plugins.vm.check_running(func)[source]
lago.providers package
Subpackages
lago.providers.libvirt package
Submodules
lago.providers.libvirt.cpu module
class lago.providers.libvirt.cpu.CPU(spec, host_cpu)[source]

Bases: object

cpu_xml
generate_cpu_xml()[source]

Get CPU XML

Returns:cpu node
Return type:lxml.etree.Element
generate_custom(cpu, vcpu_num, fill_topology)[source]

Generate custom CPU model. This method attempts to convert the dict to XML, as defined by xmltodict.unparse method.

Parameters:
  • cpu (dict) – CPU spec
  • vcpu_num (int) – number of virtual cpus
  • fill_topology (bool) – if topology is not defined in cpu and vcpu was not set, will add CPU topology to the generated CPU.
Returns:

CPU XML node

Return type:

lxml.etree.Element

Raises:

LagoInitException – when failed to convert dict to XML

generate_exact(model, vcpu_num, host_cpu)[source]

Generate exact CPU model with nested virtualization CPU feature.

Parameters:
  • model (str) – libvirt supported CPU model
  • vcpu_num (int) – number of virtual cpus
  • host_cpu (lxml.etree.Element) – the host CPU model
Returns:

CPU XML node

Return type:

lxml.etree.Element

generate_feature(name, policy='require')[source]

Generate CPU feature element

Parameters:
  • name (str) – feature name
  • policy (str) – libvirt feature policy
Returns:

feature XML element

Return type:

lxml.etree.Element

generate_host_passthrough(vcpu_num)[source]

Generate host-passthrough XML cpu node

Parameters:vcpu_num (str) – number of virtual CPUs
Returns:CPU XML node
Return type:lxml.etree.Element
generate_numa(vcpu_num)[source]

Generate guest CPU <numa> XML child Configures 1, 2 or 4 vCPUs per cell.

Parameters:vcpu_num (str) – number of virtual CPUs
Returns:numa XML element
Return type:lxml.etree.Element
generate_topology(vcpu_num, cores=1, threads=1)[source]

Generate CPU <topology> XML child

Parameters:
  • vcpu_num (str) – number of virtual CPUs
  • cores (int) – number of cores
  • threads (int) – number of threads
Returns:

topology XML element

Return type:

lxml.etree.Element

generate_vcpu(vcpu_num)[source]

Generate <vcpu> domain XML child

Parameters:vcpu_num (str) – number of virtual cpus
Returns:vcpu XML element
Return type:lxml.etree.Element
generate_vcpu_xml(vcpu_num)[source]
Parameters:vcpu_num (int) – number of virtual cpus
Returns:vcpu XML node
Return type:lxml.etree.Element
model
validate()[source]

Validate CPU-related VM spec are compatible

Raises:LagoInitException – if both ‘cpu_model’ and ‘cpu_custom’ are defined.
vcpu_xml
vendor
class lago.providers.libvirt.cpu.LibvirtCPU[source]

Bases: object

Query data from /usr/share/libvirt/cpu_map.xml

classmethod get_cpu_props(family, arch='x86')[source]

Get CPU info XML

Parameters:
  • family (str) – CPU family
  • arch (str) – CPU arch
Returns:

CPU xml

Return type:

lxml.etree.Element

Raises:

LagoException – If no such CPU family exists

classmethod get_cpu_vendor(family, arch='x86')[source]

Get CPU vendor, if vendor is not available will return ‘generic’

Parameters:
  • family (str) – CPU family
  • arch (str) – CPU arch
Returns:

CPU vendor if found otherwise ‘generic’

Return type:

str

classmethod get_cpus_by_arch(arch)[source]

Get all CPUs info by arch

Parameters:arch (str) – CPU architecture
Returns:CPUs by arch XML
Return type:lxml.etree.element
Raises:LagoException – If no such ARCH is found
lago.providers.libvirt.cpu.create_xml_map(cpu_map_index_xml, cpu_map_dir)[source]
lago.providers.libvirt.network module
class lago.providers.libvirt.network.BridgeNetwork(env, spec, compat)[source]

Bases: lago.providers.libvirt.network.Network

_libvirt_xml()[source]
start()[source]

Start the network, will check if the network is active attempts times, waiting timeout between each attempt.

Parameters:
  • attempts (int) – number of attempts to check the network is active
  • timeout (int) – timeout for each attempt
Returns:

None

Raises:
  • RuntimeError – if network creation failed, or failed to verify it is
  • active.
stop()[source]
class lago.providers.libvirt.network.NATNetwork(env, spec, compat)[source]

Bases: lago.providers.libvirt.network.Network

_generate_dns_disable()[source]
_generate_dns_forward(forward_ip)[source]
_generate_main_dns(records, subnet, forward_plain='no')[source]
_ipv6_prefix(subnet, const='fd8f:1391:3a82:')[source]
_libvirt_xml()[source]
class lago.providers.libvirt.network.Network(env, spec, compat)[source]

Bases: object

_libvirt_name()[source]
_libvirt_xml()[source]
add_mapping(name, ip, save=True)[source]
add_mappings(mappings)[source]
alive()[source]
gw()[source]
is_management()[source]
mapping()[source]
mtu()[source]
name()[source]
resolve(name)[source]
save()[source]
spec
start(attempts=5, timeout=2)[source]

Start the network, will check if the network is active attempts times, waiting timeout between each attempt.

Parameters:
  • attempts (int) – number of attempts to check the network is active
  • timeout (int) – timeout for each attempt
Returns:

None

Raises:
  • RuntimeError – if network creation failed, or failed to verify it is
  • active.
stop()[source]
lago.providers.libvirt.utils module

Utilities to help deal with the libvirt python bindings

lago.providers.libvirt.utils.DOMAIN_STATES = {<sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'no state', <sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'running', <sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'blocked', <sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'paused', <sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'begin shut down', <sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'shut off', <sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'crashed', <sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject object>: 'suspended'}

Mapping of domain statuses values to human readable strings

class lago.providers.libvirt.utils.Domain[source]

Bases: object

Class to namespace libvirt domain related helpers

static resolve_state(state_number)[source]

Get a nice description from a domain state number

Parameters:state_number (list of int) – State number as returned by libvirt.virDomain.state()
Returns:
small human readable description of the domain state, unknown
if the state is not in the known list
Return type:str
lago.providers.libvirt.utils.LIBVIRT_CONNECTIONS = {}

Singleton with the cached opened libvirt connections

lago.providers.libvirt.utils.auth_callback(credentials, user_data)[source]
lago.providers.libvirt.utils.dict_to_xml(spec, full_document=False)[source]

Convert dict to XML

Parameters:
  • spec (dict) – dict to convert
  • full_document (bool) – whether to add XML headers
Returns:

XML tree

Return type:

lxml.etree.Element

lago.providers.libvirt.utils.get_domain_template(distro, libvirt_ver, **kwargs)[source]

Get a rendered Jinja2 domain template

Parameters:
  • distro (str) – domain distro
  • libvirt_ver (int) – libvirt version
  • kwargs (dict) – args for template render
Returns:

rendered template

Return type:

str

lago.providers.libvirt.utils.get_libvirt_connection(name)[source]
lago.providers.libvirt.utils.get_template(basename)[source]

Load a file as a string from the templates directory

Parameters:basename (str) – filename
Returns:string representation of the file
Return type:str
lago.providers.libvirt.utils.libvirt_callback(userdata, err)[source]
lago.providers.libvirt.vm module
exception lago.providers.libvirt.vm.LagoLocalLibvirtVMProviderException[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

class lago.providers.libvirt.vm.LocalLibvirtVMProvider(vm)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.vm.VMProviderPlugin

_createXML(dom_xml, flags=0)[source]
_create_dead_snapshot(name)[source]
_create_live_snapshot(name)[source]
_get_domain()[source]

Return the object representation of this provider VM.

Returns:Libvirt domain object
Return type:libvirt.virDomain
Raises:exc:`~lago.plugins.vm.LagoFailedToGetVMStateError: If the VM exist, but the query returned an error.
_get_qemu_kvm_path()[source]
_libvirt_name()[source]
_libvirt_xml()[source]
_load_xml()[source]
_reclaim_disk(path)[source]
_reclaim_disks()[source]
_shutdown(libvirt_cmd, ssh_cmd, msg)[source]

Choose the invoking method (using libvirt or ssh) to shutdown / poweroff the domain.

If acpi is defined in the domain use libvirt, otherwise use ssh.

Parameters:
  • libvirt_cmd (function) – Libvirt function the invoke
  • ssh_cmd (list of str) – Shell command to invoke on the domain
  • msg (str) – Name of the command that should be inserted to the log message.
Returns
None
Raises:RuntimeError – If acpi is not configured an ssh isn’t available
alive()[source]
bootstrap()[source]

Does any actions needed to get the domain ready to be used, ran on prefix init. :returns: None

caps
cpu
cpu_model

VM CPU model

Returns:CPU model
Return type:str
cpu_vendor

VM CPU Vendor

Returns:CPU vendor
Return type:str
create_snapshot(name)[source]

Take any actions needed to create a snapshot :param name: Name for the snapshot, will be used as key to retrieve

it later
Returns:None
export_disks(standalone, dst_dir, compress, collect_only=False, with_threads=True, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Export all the disks of self.

Parameters:
  • standalone (bool) – if true, merge the base images and the layered image into a new file (Supported only in qcow2 format)
  • dst_dir (str) – dir to place the exported disks
  • compress (bool) – if true, compress each disk.
  • collect_only (bool) – If true, return only a dict which maps between the name of the vm to the paths of the disks that will be exported (don’t export anything).
  • with_threads (bool) – If True, export disks in parallel
Returns:

which maps between the name of the vm to the paths of the disks that will be exported

Return type:

(dict)

extract_paths(paths, ignore_nopath)[source]

Extract the given paths from the domain

Attempt to extract all files defined in paths with the method defined in extract_paths(), if it fails, and guestfs is available it will try extracting the files with guestfs.

Parameters:
  • paths (list of tuples) – files to extract in [(src1, dst1), (src2, dst2)…] format.
  • ignore_nopath (boolean) – if True will ignore none existing paths.
Returns:

None

Raises:
extract_paths_dead(paths, ignore_nopath)[source]

Extract the given paths from the domain using guestfs. Using guestfs can have side-effects and should be used as a second option, mainly when SSH is not available.

Parameters:
  • paths (list of str) – paths to extract
  • ignore_nopath (boolean) – if True will ignore none existing paths.
Returns:

None

Raises:
interactive_console()[source]

Opens an interactive console

Returns:result of the virsh command execution
Return type:lago.utils.CommandStatus
libvirt_ver
raw_state()[source]

Return the state of the domain in Libvirt’s terms

Retruns:
tuple of ints: The state and its reason
Raises:
  • LagoVMDoesNotExistError – If the VM of this provider doesn’t exist.
  • exc:`~lago.plugins.vm.LagoFailedToGetVMStateError: If the VM exist, but the query returned an error.
reboot(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Reboot a domain :returns: None

revert_snapshot(name)[source]

Take any actions needed to revert/restore a snapshot :param name: Name for the snapshot, same that was set on creation :type name: str

Returns:None
running()[source]

Returns: (bool): True if the VM is running

shutdown(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Shutdown a domain :returns: None

start()[source]

Start a domain :returns: None

state()[source]

Return a small description of the current status of the domain

Returns:small description of the domain status, ‘down’ if it’s not found at all.
Return type:str
stop()[source]

Stop a domain :returns: None

lago.providers.libvirt.vm.log_task(task, level='info', propagate_fail=True, uuid=None)

Parameterized decorator to wrap a function in a log task

Example

>>> @log_task('mytask')
... def do_something():
...     pass

Submodules

lago.brctl module

lago.brctl._brctl(command, *args)[source]
lago.brctl.create(name, stp=True)[source]
lago.brctl.destroy(name)[source]
lago.brctl.exists(name)[source]

lago.build module

class lago.build.Build(name, disk_path, paths)[source]

Bases: object

A Build object represents a build section in the init file. Each build section (which in turn belongs to a specific disk) should get his own Build object

In order to add support for a new build command, a new function with the name of the command should be implemented in this class. this function should accept a list of options and arguments and return a named tuple ‘Command’, where ‘Command.name’ is the name of the command and ‘Command.cmd’ is the a list containing the command and its args, for example: Command.name = ‘virt-customize’ Command.cmd = [‘virt-customize’, ‘-a’, PATH_TO_DISK, SOME_CMDS…]

name

The name of the vm this builder belongs

Type:str
disk_path

The path to the disk that needs to be customized

Type:str
paths

The paths of the current prefix

Type:lago.paths.Paths
build_cmds

A list of commands that should be invoked on the disk located in disk_path

Type:list of str
build()[source]

Run all the commands in self.build_cmds

Raises:lago.build.BuildException – If a command returned a non-zero code
get_cmd_handler(cmd)[source]

Return an handler for cmd. The handler and the command should have the same name. See class description for more info about handlers.

Parameters:cmd (str) – The name of the command
Returns:which handles cmd
Return type:callable
Raises:lago.build.BuildException – If an handler for cmd doesn’t exist
classmethod get_instance_from_build_spec(name, disk_path, build_spec, paths)[source]
Parameters:
  • name (str) – The name of the vm this builder belongs
  • disk_path (str) – The path to the disk that needs to be customized
  • paths (lago.paths.Paths) – The paths of the current prefix
  • build_spec (dict) – The build spec part, associated with the disk located at disk_path, from the init file.
Returns:

An instance of Build with a normalized build spec i.e ready to

be invoked.

normalize_build_spec(build_spec)[source]

Convert a build spec into a list of Command tuples. After running this command, self.build_cmds should hold all the commands that should be run on the disk in self.disk_path.

Parameters:build_spec (dict) – The buildspec part from the init file
static normalize_options(options)[source]

Turns a mapping of ‘option: arg’ to a list and prefix the options. arg can be a list of arguments.

for example:

dict = {
o1: a1, o2: , o3: [a31, a32] o4: []

}

will be transformed to:

[
prefix_option(o1), a1, prefix_option(o2), prefix_option(o3), a31, prefix_option(o3), a32 prefix_option(o4)

]

note that empty arguments are omitted

Parameters:options (dict) – A mapping between options and arguments
Returns:A normalized version of ‘options’ as mentioned above
Return type:lst
static prefix_option(option)[source]

Depends on the option’s length, prefix it with ‘-‘ or ‘–’ :param option: The option to prefix :type option: str

Returns:prefixed option
Return type:str
virt_customize(options)[source]

Handler for ‘virt-customize’ note: if ‘ssh-inject’ option was specified without a path to a key, the prefix’ key will be copied to the vm.

Parameters:options (lst of str) – Options and arguments for ‘virt-customize’
Returns:which handles cmd
Return type:callable
Raises:lago.build.BuildException – If an handler for cmd doesn’t exist
exception lago.build.BuildException[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

class lago.build.Command(name, cmd)

Bases: tuple

__getnewargs__()

Return self as a plain tuple. Used by copy and pickle.

__getstate__()

Exclude the OrderedDict from pickling

__repr__()

Return a nicely formatted representation string

_asdict()

Return a new OrderedDict which maps field names to their values

_fields = ('name', 'cmd')
classmethod _make(iterable, new=<built-in method __new__ of type object>, len=<built-in function len>)

Make a new Command object from a sequence or iterable

_replace(**kwds)

Return a new Command object replacing specified fields with new values

cmd

Alias for field number 1

name

Alias for field number 0

lago.cmd module

lago.cmd.create_parser(cli_plugins, out_plugins)[source]
lago.cmd.exit_handler(signum, frame)[source]

Catch SIGTERM and SIGHUP and call “sys.exit” which raises “SystemExit” exception. This will trigger all the cleanup code defined in ContextManagers and “finally” statements.

For more details about the arguments see “signal” documentation.

Parameters:
  • signum (int) – The signal’s number
  • frame (frame) – The current stack frame, can be None
lago.cmd.main()[source]

lago.config module

class lago.config.ConfigLoad(root_section='lago', defaults={})[source]

Bases: object

Merges configuration parameters from 3 different sources: 1. Enviornment vairables 2. config files in .INI format 3. argparse.ArgumentParser

The assumed order(but not necessary) order of calls is: load() - load from config files and environment variables update_parser(parser) - update from the declared argparse parser update_args(args) - update from passed arguments to the parser

__getitem__(key)[source]

Get a variable from the default section, good for fail-fast if key does not exists.

Parameters:key (str) – key
Returns:config variable
Return type:str
get(*args)[source]

Get a variable from the default section :param *args: dict.get() args :type *args: args

Returns:config variable
Return type:str
get_ini(incl_unset=False)[source]

Return the config dictionary in INI format :param incl_unset: include variables with no defaults. :type incl_unset: bool

Returns:string of the config file in INI format
Return type:str
get_section(*args)[source]

get a section dictionary Args:

Returns:section config dictionary
Return type:dict
load()[source]

Load all configurations from available resources, skip if empty:

  1. default` dict passed to ConfigLoad.__init__().
  2. Custom paths as defined in CONFS_PATH in
    constants.
  3. XDG standard paths.
  4. Environment variables.
Returns:dict of dicts.
Return type:dict
update_args(args)[source]

Update config dictionary with parsed args, as resolved by argparse. Only root positional arguments that already exist will overridden.

Parameters:args (namespace) – args parsed by argparse
update_parser(parser)[source]

Update config dictionary with declared arguments in an argparse.parser New variables will be created, and existing ones overridden.

Parameters:parser (argparse.ArgumentParser) – parser to read variables from
lago.config._get_configs_path()[source]

Get a list of possible configuration files, from the following sources: 1. All files that exists in constants.CONFS_PATH. 2. All XDG standard config files for “lago.conf”, in reversed order of importance.

Returns:list of files
Return type:list(str)
lago.config.get_env_dict(root_section)[source]

Read all Lago variables from the environment. The lookup format is: LAGO_VARNAME - will land into ‘lago’ section LAGO__SECTION1__VARNAME - will land into ‘section1’ section, notice the double ‘__’. LAGO__LONG_SECTION_NAME__VARNAME - will land into ‘long_section_name’

Returns:dict of section configuration dicts
Return type:dict

Examples

>>> os.environ['LAGO_GLOBAL_VAR'] = 'global'
>>> os.environ['LAGO__INIT__REPO_PATH'] = '/tmp/store'
>>>
>>> config.get_env_dict()
{'init': {'repo_path': '/tmp/store'}, 'lago': {'global_var': 'global'}}

lago.constants module

lago.constants.CONFS_PATH = ['/etc/lago/lago.conf']

CONFS_PATH - default path to first look for configuration files.

lago.constants.LIBEXEC_DIR = '/usr/libexec/lago/'

LIBEXEC_DIR -

lago.export module

class lago.export.DiskExportManager(dst, disk_type, disk, do_compress)[source]

Bases: object

DiskExportManager object is responsible on the export process of an image from the current Lago prefix.

DiskExportManger is the base class of specific DiskExportManger. Each specific DiskExportManger is responsible on the export process of an image with a specific type (e.g template, file…)

src

Path to the image that should be exported

Type:str
name

The name of the exported disk

Type:str
dst

The absolute path of the exported disk

Type:str
disk_type

The type of the image e.g template, file, empty…

Type:str
disk

Disk attributes (of the disk that should be exported) as found in workdir/current/virt/VM-NAME

Type:dict
exported_metadata

A copy of the source disk metadata, this dict should be updated with new values during the export process.

Type:dict
do_compress

If true, apply compression to the exported disk.

Type:bool
_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
calc_sha(checksum)[source]

Calculate the checksum of the new exported disk, write it to a file, and update this managers ‘exported_metadata’.

Parameters:checksum (str) – The type of the checksum
compress()[source]

Compress the new exported image, Block size was taken from virt-builder page

copy()[source]

Copy the disk using cp in order to preserves the ‘sparse’ structure of the file

export()[source]

This method will handle the export process and should implemented in each subclass.

static get_instance_by_type(dst, disk, do_compress, *args, **kwargs)[source]
Parameters:
  • dst (str) – The path of the new exported disk. can contain env variables.
  • disk (dict) – Disk attributes (of the disk that should be exported) as found in workdir/current/virt/VM-NAME
  • do_compress (bool) – If true, apply compression to the exported disk.
Returns
An instance of a subclass of DiskExportManager which matches the disk type.
sparse()[source]

Make the exported images more compact by removing unused space. Please refer to ‘virt-sparsify’ for more info.

update_lago_metadata()[source]
write_lago_metadata()[source]
class lago.export.FileExportManager(dst, disk_type, disk, do_compress, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: lago.export.DiskExportManager

FileExportManager is responsible exporting images of type file and empty.

standalone

If true, create a new image which is the result of merging all the layers of src (the image that we want to export).

Type:bool
src_qemu_info

Metadata on src which was generated by qemu-img.

Type:dict
_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
export()[source]

See DiskExportManager.export

class lago.export.TemplateExportManager(dst, disk_type, disk, do_compress, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: lago.export.DiskExportManager

TemplateExportManager is responsible exporting images of type template.

See superclass
_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
export()[source]

See DiskExportManager.export

rebase()[source]

Change the backing-file entry of the exported disk. Please refer to ‘qemu-img rebase’ manual for more info.

update_lago_metadata()[source]
class lago.export.VMExportManager(disks, dst, compress, with_threads=True, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: object

VMExportManager object is responsible on the export process of a list of disks.

disks

Disks to export.

Type:list of dicts
dst

Where to place the exported disks.

Type:str
compress

If True compress each exported disk.

Type:bool
with_threads

If True, run the export in parallel

Type:bool
*args

Extra args, will be passed to each DiskExportManager

Type:list
**kwargs

Extra args, will be passed to each DiskExportManager

Type:dict
_collect()[source]
Returns:The disks that needed to be exported
Return type:(generator of dicts)
_get_export_mgr()[source]
Returns:Handler for each disk
Return type:(DiskExportManager)
collect_paths()[source]
Returns:The path of the disks that will be exported.
Return type:(list of str)
export()[source]

Run the export process :returns: The path of the exported disks. :rtype: (list of str)

exported_disks_paths()[source]
Returns:The path of the exported disks.
Return type:(list of str)

lago.guestfs_tools module

exception lago.guestfs_tools.GuestFSError[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

lago.guestfs_tools._copy_path(conn, guest_path, host_path)[source]
lago.guestfs_tools.extract_paths(disk_path, disk_root, paths, ignore_nopath)[source]

Extract paths from a disk using guestfs

Parameters:
  • disk_path (str) – path to the disk
  • disk_root (str) – root partition
  • paths (list of tuples) – files to extract in [(src1, dst1), (src2, dst2)…] format, if srcN is a directory in the guest, and dstN does not exist on the host, it will be created. If srcN is a file on the guest, it will be copied exactly to dstN
  • ignore_nopath (bool) – If set to True, ignore paths in the guest that do not exit
Returns:

None

Raises:
lago.guestfs_tools.find_rootfs(conn, disk_root)[source]

Find the image’s device root filesystem, and return its path.

  1. Use guestfs.GuestFS.inspect_os() method. If it returns more than
    one root filesystem or None, try:
  2. Find an exact match of disk_root from
    guestfs.GuestFS.list_filesystems(), if none is found, try:
  3. Return the device that has the substring disk_root contained in it,
    from the output of guestfs.GuestFS.list_filesystems().
Parameters:
  • conn (guestfs.GuestFS) – Open GuestFS handle.
  • disk_root (str) – Root device to search for. Note that by default, if guestfs can deduce the filesystem, it will not be used.
Returns:

root device path

Return type:

str

Raises:

GuestFSError if no root filesystem was found

lago.guestfs_tools.guestfs_conn_mount_ro(*args, **kwds)[source]

Open a GuestFS handle with disk_path and try mounting the root filesystem. disk_root is a hint where it should be looked and will only be used if GuestFS will not be able to deduce it independently.

Note that mounting a live guest, can lead to filesystem inconsistencies, causing the mount operation to fail. As we use readonly mode, this is safe, but the operation itself can still fail. Therefore, this method will watch for mount failures and retry 5 times before throwing an exception.

Parameters:
  • disk_path (str) – Path to the disk.
  • disk_root (str) – Hint what is the root device with the OS filesystem.
  • retries (int) – Number of retries for mount_ro() operation. Note that on each retry a new GuestFS handle will be used.
  • wait (int) – Time to wait between retries.
Yields:

guestfs.GuestFS – An open GuestFS handle.

Raises:

GuestFSError – On any guestfs operation error, including exceeding retries for the mount_ro() operation.

lago.guestfs_tools.guestfs_conn_ro(*args, **kwds)[source]

Open a GuestFS handle and add disk in read only mode.

Parameters:disk (disk path) – Path to the disk.
Yields:guestfs.GuestFS – Open GuestFS handle
Raises:GuestFSError – On any guestfs operation failure

lago.lago_ansible module

class lago.lago_ansible.LagoAnsible(prefix)[source]

Bases: object

A class for handling Ansible related tasks

prefix

The prefix that this object wraps

Type:lago.prefix.Prefix
_generate_entry(vm)[source]

Generate host entry for the given VM :param vm: The VM for which the entry

should be created for.
Returns:An entry for vm
Return type:str
get_inventory(keys=None)[source]

Create an Ansible inventory based on python dicts and lists. The returned value is a dict in which every key represents a group and every value is a list of entries for that group.

Parameters:keys (list of str) – Path to the keys that will be used to create groups.
Returns:dict based Ansible inventory
Return type:dict
get_inventory_str(keys=None)[source]

Convert a dict generated by ansible.LagoAnsible.get_inventory to an INI-like file.

Parameters:keys (list of str) – Path to the keys that will be used to create groups.
Returns:INI-like Ansible inventory
Return type:str
get_inventory_temp_file(**kwds)[source]

Context manager which returns the inventory written on a tempfile. The tempfile will be deleted as soon as this context manger ends.

Parameters:keys (list of str) – Path to the keys that will be used to create groups.
Yields:tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile – Temp file containing the inventory
static get_key(key, data_structure)[source]

Helper method for extracting values from a nested data structure.

Parameters:
  • key (str) – The path to the vales (a series of keys and indexes separated by ‘/’)
  • data_structure (dict or list) – The data structure from which the value will be extracted.
Returns:

The values associated with key

Return type:

str

lago.log_utils module

This module defines the special logging tools that lago uses

lago.log_utils.ALWAYS_SHOW_REG = <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>

Regexp that will match the above template

lago.log_utils.ALWAYS_SHOW_TRIGGER_MSG = 'force-show:%s'

Message template that will always shoud the messago

class lago.log_utils.ColorFormatter(fmt=None, datefmt=None)[source]

Bases: logging.Formatter

Formatter to add colors to log records

CRITICAL = '\x1b[31m'
CYAN = '\x1b[36m'
DEBUG = ''
DEFAULT = '\x1b[0m'
ERROR = '\x1b[31m'
GREEN = '\x1b[32m'
INFO = '\x1b[36m'
NONE = ''
RED = '\x1b[31m'
WARNING = '\x1b[33m'
WHITE = '\x1b[37m'
YELLOW = '\x1b[33m'
classmethod colored(color, message)[source]

Small function to wrap a string around a color

Parameters:
  • color (str) – name of the color to wrap the string with, must be one of the class properties
  • message (str) – String to wrap with the color
Returns:

the colored string

Return type:

str

format(record)[source]

Adds colors to a log record and formats it with the default

Parameters:record (logging.LogRecord) – log record to format
Returns:The colored and formatted record string
Return type:str
class lago.log_utils.ContextLock[source]

Bases: object

Context manager to thread lock a block of code

lago.log_utils.END_TASK_MSG = 'Success'

Message to be shown when a task is ended

lago.log_utils.END_TASK_REG = <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>

Regexp that will match the above template

lago.log_utils.END_TASK_TRIGGER_MSG = 'end task%s'

Message template that will trigger a task end

class lago.log_utils.LogTask(task, logger=<module 'logging' from '/home/docs/.pyenv/versions/2.7.16/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.pyc'>, level='info', propagate_fail=True, uuid=None)[source]

Bases: object

Context manager for a log task

Example

>>> with LogTask('mytask'):
...     pass
lago.log_utils.START_TASK_MSG = ''

Message to be shown when a task is started

lago.log_utils.START_TASK_REG = <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>

Regexp that will match the above template

lago.log_utils.START_TASK_TRIGGER_MSG = 'start task%s'

Message template that will trigger a task

class lago.log_utils.Task(name, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: collections.deque

Small wrapper around deque to add the failed status and name to a task

name

name for this task

Type:str
failed

If this task has failed or not (if there was any error log shown during it’s execution)

Type:bool
force_show

If set, will show any log records generated inside this task even if it’s out of nested depth limit

Type:bool
elapsed_time()[source]
class lago.log_utils.TaskHandler(initial_depth=0, task_tree_depth=-1, buffer_size=2000, dump_level=40, level=0, formatter=<class 'lago.log_utils.ColorFormatter'>)[source]

Bases: logging.StreamHandler

This log handler will use the concept of tasks, to hide logs, and will show all the logs for the current task if there’s a logged error while running that task.

It will hide any logs that belong to nested tasks that have more than task_tree_depth parent levels, and for the ones that are above that level, it will show only the logs that have a loglevel above level.

You can force showing a log record immediately if you use the log_always() function bypassing all the filters.

If there’s a log record with log level higher than dump_level it will be considered a failure, and all the logs for the current task that have a log level above level will be shown no matter at which depth the task belongs to. Also, all the parent tasks will be tagged as error.

formatter

formatter to use

Type:logging.LogFormatter
initial_depth

Initial depth to account for, in case this handler was created in a subtask

Type:int
tasks_by_thread (dict of str

OrderedDict of str: Task): List of thread names, and their currently open tasks with their latest log records

dump_level

log level from which to consider a log record as error

Type:int
buffer_size

Size of the log record deque for each task, the bigger, the more records it can show in case of error but the more memory it will use

Type:int
task_tree_depth

number of the nested level to show start/end task logs for, if -1 will show always

Type:int
level

Log level to show logs from if the depth limit is not reached

Type:int
main_failed

used to flag from a child thread that the main should fail any current task

Type:bool
_tasks_lock

Lock for the tasks_by_thread dict

Type:ContextLock
_main_thread_lock

Lock for the main_failed bool

Type:ContextLock
TASK_INDICATORS = ['@', '#', '*', '-', '~']

List of chars to show as task prefix, to ease distinguishing them

am_i_main_thread

if the current thread is the main thread

Type:Returns
Type:bool
close_children_tasks(parent_task_name)[source]

Closes all the children tasks that were open

Parameters:parent_task_name (str) – Name of the parent task
Returns:None
cur_depth_level

depth level for the current task

Type:Returns
Type:int
cur_task

the current active task

Type:Returns
Type:str
cur_thread

Name of the current thread

Type:Returns
Type:str
emit(record)[source]

Handle the given record, this is the entry point from the python logging facility

Params:
record (logging.LogRecord): log record to handle
Returns:None
get_task_indicator(task_level=None)[source]
Parameters:task_level (int or None) – task depth level to get the indicator for, if None, will use the current tasks depth
Returns:char to prepend to the task logs to indicate it’s level
Return type:str
get_tasks(thread_name)[source]
Parameters:thread_name (str) – name of the thread to get the tasks for
Returns:
list of task names and log records for
each for the given thread
Return type:OrderedDict of str, Task
handle_closed_task(task_name, record)[source]

Do everything needed when a task is closed

Params:
task_name (str): name of the task that is finishing record (logging.LogRecord): log record with all the info
Returns:None
handle_error()[source]

Handles an error log record that should be shown

Returns:None
handle_new_task(task_name, record)[source]

Do everything needed when a task is starting

Params:
task_name (str): name of the task that is starting record (logging.LogRecord): log record with all the info
Returns:None
mark_main_tasks_as_failed()[source]

Flags to the main thread that all it’s tasks sholud fail

Returns:None
mark_parent_tasks_as_failed(task_name, flush_logs=False)[source]

Marks all the parent tasks as failed

Parameters:
  • task_name (str) – Name of the child task
  • flush_logs (bool) – If True will discard all the logs form parent tasks
Returns:

None

pretty_emit(record, is_header=False, task_level=None)[source]

Wrapper around the logging.StreamHandler emit method to add some decoration stuff to the message

Parameters:
  • record (logging.LogRecord) – log record to emit
  • is_header (bool) – if this record is a header, usually, a start or end task message
  • task_level (int) – If passed, will take that as the current nested task level instead of calculating it from the current tasks
Returns:

None

should_show_by_depth(cur_level=None)[source]
Parameters:cur_level (int) – depth level to take into account
Returns:
True if the given depth level should show messages (not
taking into account the log level)
Return type:bool
should_show_by_level(record, base_level=None)[source]
Parameters:
  • record_level (int) – log level of the record to check
  • base_level (int or None) – log level to check against, will use the object’s dump_level if None is passed
Returns:

True if the given log record should be shown according to the

log level

Return type:

bool

tasks
list of task names and log records for
each for the current thread
Type:Returns
Type:OrderedDict of str, Task
lago.log_utils.end_log_task(task, logger=<module 'logging' from '/home/docs/.pyenv/versions/2.7.16/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.pyc'>, level='info')[source]

Ends a log task

Parameters:
  • task (str) – name of the log task to end
  • logger (logging.Logger) – logger to use
  • level (str) – log level to use
Returns:

None

lago.log_utils.get_default_log_formatter()[source]
lago.log_utils.hide_paramiko_logs()[source]
lago.log_utils.hide_stevedore_logs()[source]

Hides the logs of stevedore, this function was added in order to support older versions of stevedore

We are using the NullHandler in order to get rid from ‘No handlers could be found for logger…’ msg

Returns:None
lago.log_utils.log_always(message)[source]

Wraps the given message with a tag that will make it be always logged by the task logger

Parameters:message (str) – message to wrap with the tag
Returns:
tagged message that will get it shown immediately by the task
logger
Return type:str
lago.log_utils.log_task(task, logger=<module 'logging' from '/home/docs/.pyenv/versions/2.7.16/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.pyc'>, level='info', propagate_fail=True, uuid=None)[source]

Parameterized decorator to wrap a function in a log task

Example

>>> @log_task('mytask')
... def do_something():
...     pass
lago.log_utils.setup_prefix_logging(logdir)[source]

Sets up a file logger that will create a log in the given logdir (usually a lago prefix)

Parameters:logdir (str) – path to create the log into, will be created if it does not exist
Returns:None
lago.log_utils.start_log_task(task, logger=<module 'logging' from '/home/docs/.pyenv/versions/2.7.16/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.pyc'>, level='info')[source]

Starts a log task

Parameters:
  • task (str) – name of the log task to start
  • logger (logging.Logger) – logger to use
  • level (str) – log level to use
Returns:

None

lago.paths module

class lago.paths.Paths(prefix_path)[source]

Bases: object

A Paths object contains methods for getting the paths to the directories and files which composes the prefix.

_prefix_path

Path to the directory of the prefix

Type:str
images(*path)[source]
logs()[source]
metadata()[source]
prefix_lagofile()[source]

This file represents a prefix that’s initialized

prefix_path()[source]
prefixed(*args)[source]
scripts(*args)[source]
ssh_id_rsa()[source]
ssh_id_rsa_pub()[source]
uuid()[source]
virt(*path)[source]

lago.prefix module

exception lago.prefix.LagoDeployError[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

class lago.prefix.Prefix(prefix)[source]

Bases: object

A prefix is a directory that will contain all the data needed to setup the environment.

_paths

Paths handler class

Type:lago.path.Paths
_virt_env

Lazily loaded virtual env handler

Type:lago.virt.VirtEnv
_metadata

Lazily loaded metadata

Type:dict
VIRT_ENV_CLASS

alias of lago.virt.VirtEnv

_add_dns_records(conf, mgmts)[source]

Add DNS records dict(‘dns_records’) to conf for each management network. Add DNS forwarder IP(‘dns_forward’) for each none management network.

Parameters:
  • conf (spec) – spec
  • mgmts (list) – management networks names
Returns:

None

_add_mgmt_to_domains(conf, mgmts)[source]

Add management network key(‘mgmt_net’) to each domain. Note this assumes conf was validated.

Parameters:
  • conf (dict) – spec
  • mgmts (list) – list of management networks names
_add_nic_to_mapping(net, dom, nic)[source]

Populates the given net spec mapping entry with the nics of the given domain, by the following rules:

  • If net is management, ‘domain_name’: nic_ip
  • For each interface: ‘domain_name-eth#’: nic_ip, where # is the

index of the nic in the domain definition. * For each interface: ‘domain_name-net_name-#’: nic_ip, where # is a running number of interfaces from that network. * For each interface: ‘domain_name-net_name’, which has an identical IP to ‘domain_name-net_name-0’

Parameters:
  • net (dict) – Network spec to populate
  • dom (dict) – libvirt domain specification
  • nic (str) – Name of the interface to add to the net mapping from the domain
Returns:

None

_allocate_ips_to_nics(conf)[source]

For all the nics of all the domains in the conf that have dynamic ip, allocate one and addit to the network mapping

Parameters:conf (dict) – Configuration spec to extract the domains from
Returns:None
_allocate_subnets(conf)[source]

Allocate all the subnets needed by the given configuration spec

Parameters:conf (dict) – Configuration spec where to get the nets definitions from
Returns:allocated subnets and modified conf
Return type:tuple(list, dict)
_config_net_topology(conf)[source]

Initialize and populate all the network related elements, like reserving ips and populating network specs of the given confiiguration spec

Parameters:conf (dict) – Configuration spec to initalize
Returns:None
_copy_delpoy_scripts(scripts)[source]

Copy the given deploy scripts to the scripts dir in the prefix

Parameters:scripts (list of str) – list of paths of the scripts to copy to the prefix
Returns:
list with the paths to the copied scripts, with a
prefixed with $LAGO_PREFIX_PATH so the full path is not hardcoded
Return type:list of str
_copy_deploy_scripts_for_hosts(domains)[source]

Copy the deploy scripts for all the domains into the prefix scripts dir

Parameters:domains (dict) – spec with the domains info as when loaded from the initfile
Returns:None
_create_disk(name, spec, template_repo=None, template_store=None)[source]

Creates a disc with the given name from the given repo or store

Parameters:
  • name (str) – Name of the domain to create the disk for
  • spec (dict) – Specification of the disk to create
  • template_repo (TemplateRepository or None) – template repo instance to use
  • template_store (TemplateStore or None) – template store instance to use
Returns:

Path to the disk and disk metadata

Return type:

Tuple(str, dict)

Raises:

RuntimeError – If the type of the disk is not supported or failed to create the disk

_create_disks(domain_name, disks_specs, template_repo, template_store)[source]
_create_ssh_keys()[source]

Generate a pair of ssh keys for this prefix

Returns:None
Raises:RuntimeError – if it fails to create the keys
_create_virt_env()[source]

Create a new virt env from this prefix

Returns:virt env created from this prefix
Return type:lago.virt.VirtEnv
_deploy_host(host)[source]
static _generate_disk_name(host_name, disk_name, disk_format)[source]
_generate_disk_path(disk_name)[source]
_get_net(conf, dom_name, nic)[source]
_get_scripts(host_metadata)[source]

Temporary method to retrieve the host scripts

Parameters:host_metadata (dict) – host metadata to retrieve the scripts for
Returns:deploy scripts for the host, empty if none found
Return type:list
_handle_empty_disk(host_name, disk_spec)[source]
_handle_file_disk(disk_spec)[source]
_handle_lago_template(disk_path, template_spec, template_store, template_repo)[source]
_handle_ova_image(domain_spec)[source]
_handle_qcow_template(disk_path, template_spec, template_store=None, template_repo=None)[source]
_handle_template(host_name, template_spec, template_store=None, template_repo=None)[source]
static _init_net_specs(conf)[source]

Given a configuration specification, initializes all the net definitions in it so they can be used comfortably

Parameters:conf (dict) – Configuration specification
Returns:the adapted new conf
Return type:dict
_ova_to_spec(filename)[source]

Retrieve the given ova and makes a template of it. Creates a disk from network provided ova. Calculates the needed memory from the ovf. The disk will be cached in the template repo

Parameters:filename (str) – the url to retrive the data from
Returns:

list with the disk specification int: VM memory, None if none defined int: Number of virtual cpus, None if none defined

Return type:

list of dict

Raises:
  • RuntimeError – If the ova format is not supported
  • TypeError – If the memory units in the ova are noot supported (currently only ‘MegaBytes’)
_prepare_domain_image(domain_spec, prototypes, template_repo, template_store)[source]
_prepare_domains_images(conf, template_repo, template_store)[source]
_register_preallocated_ips(conf)[source]

Parse all the domains in the given conf and preallocate all their ips into the networks mappings, raising exception on duplicated ips or ips out of the allowed ranges

Parameters:conf (dict) – Configuration spec to parse
Returns:None
Raises:RuntimeError – if there are any duplicated ips or any ip out of the allowed range
_retrieve_disk_url(disk_url, disk_dst_path=None)[source]
static _run_qemu(qemu_cmd, disk_path)[source]
_save_metadata()[source]

Write this prefix metadata to disk

Returns:None
_select_mgmt_networks(conf)[source]

Select management networks. If no management network is found, it will mark the first network found by sorted the network lists. Also adding default DNS domain, if none is set.

Parameters:conf (spec) – spec
_set_mtu_to_nics(conf)[source]

For all the nics of all the domains in the conf that have MTU set, save the MTU on the NIC definition.

Parameters:conf (dict) – Configuration spec to extract the domains from
Returns:None
_set_scripts(host_metadata, scripts)[source]

Temporary method to set the host scripts

Parameters:host_metadata (dict) – host metadata to set scripts in
Returns:the updated metadata
Return type:dict
_use_prototype(spec, prototypes)[source]

Populates the given spec with the values of it’s declared prototype

Parameters:
  • spec (dict) – spec to update
  • prototypes (dict) – Configuration spec containing the prototypes
Returns:

updated spec

Return type:

dict

_validate_netconfig(conf)[source]

Validate network configuration

Parameters:

conf (dict) – spec

Returns:

None

Raises:
  • LagoInitException – If a VM has more than
  • one management network configured, or a network which is not
  • management has DNS attributes, or a VM is configured with a
  • none-existence NIC, or a VM has no management network.
build(conf)[source]
cleanup(**kwargs)[source]

Stops any running entities in the prefix and uninitializes it, usually you want to do this if you are going to remove the prefix afterwards

Returns:None
collect_artifacts(**kwargs)[source]
create_snapshots(name)[source]

Creates one snapshot on all the domains with the given name

Parameters:name (str) – Name of the snapshots to create
Returns:None
deploy(**kwargs)[source]
destroy()[source]

Destroy this prefix, running any cleanups and removing any files inside it.

export_vms(**kwargs)[source]

Export vm images disks and init file. The exported images and init file can be used to recreate the environment.

Parameters:
  • vms_names (list of str) – Names of the vms to export, if None export all the vms in the env (default=None)
  • standalone (bool) – If false, export a layered image (default=False)
  • export_dir (str) – Dir to place the exported images and init file
  • compress (bool) – If True compress the images with xz (default=False)
  • init_file_name (str) – The name of the exported init file (default=’LagoInitfile’)
  • out_format (lago.plugins.output.OutFormatPlugin) – The type of the exported init file (the default is yaml)
  • collect_only (bool) – If True, return only a mapping from vm name to the disks that will be exported. (default=False)
  • with_threads (bool) – If True, run the export in parallel (default=True)
Returns
Unless collect_only == True, a mapping between vms’ disks.
fetch_url(url)[source]

Retrieves the given url to the prefix

Parameters:url (str) – Url to retrieve
Returns:path to the downloaded file
Return type:str
get_nets(**kwargs)[source]

Retrieve info on all the nets from all the domains

Returns:dictionary with net_name -> net list
Return type:dict of str->list(str)
get_paths(**kwargs)[source]

Get the Paths object of this prefix. The Paths object contains the paths to the internal directories and files of this prefix.

Returns:The Paths object of this prefix
Return type:lago.paths.Paths
get_snapshots()[source]

Retrieve info on all the snapshots from all the domains

Returns:list(str): dictionary with vm_name -> snapshot list
Return type:dict of str
get_vms(**kwargs)[source]

Retrieve info on all the vms

Returns:dictionary with vm_name -> vm list
Return type:dict of str->list(str)
initialize(**kwargs)[source]

Initialize this prefix, this includes creating the destination path, and creating the uuid for the prefix, for any other actions see Prefix.virt_conf()

Will safely roll back if any of those steps fail

Returns:None
Raises:RuntimeError – If it fails to create the prefix dir
classmethod is_prefix(path)[source]

Check if a path is a valid prefix

Parameters:path (str) – path to be checked
Returns:True if the given path is a prefix
Return type:bool
metadata

Retrieve the metadata info for this prefix

Returns:metadata info
Return type:dict
paths
resolve_parent(disk_path, template_store, template_repo)[source]

Given a virtual disk, checks if it has a backing file, if so check if the backing file is in the store, if not download it from the provided template_repo.

After verifying that the backing-file is in the store, create a symlink to that file and locate it near the layered image.

Parameters:
classmethod resolve_prefix_path(start_path=None)[source]

Look for an existing prefix in the given path, in a path/.lago dir, or in a .lago dir under any of it’s parent directories

Parameters:start_path (str) – path to start the search from, if None passed, it will use the current dir
Returns:path to the found prefix
Return type:str
Raises:RuntimeError – if no prefix was found
revert_snapshots(name)[source]

Revert all the snapshots with the given name from all the domains

Parameters:name (str) – Name of the snapshots to revert
Returns:None
save()[source]

Save this prefix to persistent storage

Returns:None
shutdown(**kwargs)[source]

Shutdown this prefix

Parameters:
  • vm_names (list of str) – List of the vms to shutdown
  • reboot (bool) – If true, reboot the requested vms
Returns:

None

start(**kwargs)[source]

Start this prefix

Parameters:vm_names (list of str) – List of the vms to start
Returns:None
stop(**kwargs)[source]

Stop this prefix

Parameters:vm_names (list of str) – List of the vms to stop
Returns:None
virt_conf(conf, template_repo=None, template_store=None, do_bootstrap=True, do_build=True)[source]

Initializes all the virt infrastructure of the prefix, creating the domains disks, doing any network leases and creating all the virt related files and dirs inside this prefix.

Parameters:
  • conf (dict) – Configuration spec
  • template_repo (TemplateRepository) – template repository intance
  • template_store (TemplateStore) – template store instance
  • do_bootstrap (bool) – If true run virt-sysprep on the images
  • do_build (bool) – If true run build commands on the images, see lago.build.py for more info.
Returns:

None

virt_conf_from_stream(conf_fd, template_repo=None, template_store=None, do_bootstrap=True, do_build=True)[source]

Initializes all the virt infrastructure of the prefix, creating the domains disks, doing any network leases and creating all the virt related files and dirs inside this prefix.

Parameters:
  • conf_fd (File) – File like object to read the config from
  • template_repo (TemplateRepository) – template repository intance
  • template_store (TemplateStore) – template store instance
Returns:

None

virt_env

Getter for this instance’s virt env, creates it if needed

Returns:virt env instance used by this prefix
Return type:lago.virt.VirtEnv
lago.prefix._create_ip(subnet, index)[source]

Given a subnet or an ip and an index returns the ip with that lower index from the subnet (255.255.255.0 mask only subnets)

Parameters:
  • subnet (str) – Strign containing the three first elements of the decimal representation of a subnet (X.Y.Z) or a full ip (X.Y.Z.A)
  • index (int or str) – Last element of a decimal ip representation, for example, 123 for the ip 1.2.3.123
Returns:

The dotted decimal representation of the ip

Return type:

str

lago.prefix._ip_in_subnet(subnet, ip)[source]

Checks if an ip is included in a subnet.

Note

only 255.255.255.0 masks allowed

Parameters:
  • subnet (str) – Strign containing the three first elements of the decimal representation of a subnet (X.Y.Z) or a full ip (X.Y.Z.A)
  • ip (str or int) – Decimal ip representation
Returns:

True if ip is in subnet, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

lago.prefix.log_task(task, level='info', propagate_fail=True, uuid=None)

Parameterized decorator to wrap a function in a log task

Example

>>> @log_task('mytask')
... def do_something():
...     pass

lago.sdk module

class lago.sdk.SDK(workdir, prefix)[source]

Bases: object

The SDK can be initialized in 3 ways:

  1. (Preferred) - by calling sdk.init().
  2. By loading an existing workdir from the disk, with
    load_env().
  3. By passing already created workdir and prefix objects.
ansible_inventory(keys=['vm-type', 'groups', 'vm-provider'])[source]

Get an Ansible inventory as a string, keys should be list on which to group the hosts by. You can use any key defined in LagoInitFile.

Examples of possible keys:

keys=[‘disks/0/metadata/arch’], would group the hosts by the architecture.

keys=[‘/disks/0/metadata/distro’, ‘disks/0/metadata/arch’],
would create groups by architecture and also by distro.
keys=[‘groups’] - would group hosts by the groups defined for

each VM in the LagoInitFile, i.e.:

domains:

vm-01:
… groups: web-server ..
vm-02:
groups: db-server
Parameters:keys (list of str) – Path to the keys that will be used to create groups.
Returns:INI-like Ansible inventory
Return type:str
ansible_inventory_temp_file(keys=['vm-type', 'groups', 'vm-provider'])[source]

Context manager which returns Ansible inventory written on a tempfile. This is the same as ansible_inventory(), only the inventory file is written to a tempfile.

Parameters:keys (list of str) – Path to the keys that will be used to create groups.
Yields:tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile – Temp file containing the inventory
destroy()[source]

Destroy the environment, this will terminate all resources, and remove entirely the Lago working directory.

lago.sdk.add_stream_logger(level=10, name=None)[source]

Add a stream logger. This can be used for printing all SDK calls to stdout while working in an interactive session. Note this is a logger for the entire module, which will apply to all environments started in the same session. If you need a specific logger pass a logfile to init()

Parameters:
  • level (int) – logging log level
  • name (str) – logger name, will default to the root logger.
Returns:

None

lago.sdk.init(config, workdir=None, logfile=None, loglevel=20, **kwargs)[source]

Initialize the Lago environment

Parameters:
  • config (str) – Path to LagoInitFile
  • workdir (str) – Path to initalize the workdir, defaults to “$PWD/.lago”
  • **kwargs (dict) – Pass arguments to do_init()
  • logfile (str) – A path to setup a log file.
  • loglevel (int) – logging log level.
Returns:

Initialized Lago enviornment

Return type:

SDK

Raises:

LagoException – If initialization failed

lago.sdk.load_env(workdir, logfile=None, loglevel=20)[source]

Load an existing Lago environment

Parameters:workdir (str) – Path to the workdir directory, as created by

:param init() or created by the CLI.: :param logfile: A Path to setup a log file. :type logfile: str :param loglevel: logging log level. :type loglevel: int

Returns:Initialized Lago environment
Return type:SDK
Raises:LagoException – If loading the environment failed.

lago.sdk_utils module

class lago.sdk_utils.SDKMethod(name)[source]

Bases: object

Metadata to store inside the decorated function

class lago.sdk_utils.SDKWrapper(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._MockObject

A proxy object that exposes only methods which were decorated with expose() decorator.

lago.sdk_utils.expose(func)[source]

Decorator to be used with SDKWrapper. This decorator indicates that the wrapped method or class should be exposed in the proxied object.

Parameters:func (types.FunctionType/types.MethodType) – function to decorate
Returns:None
lago.sdk_utils.getattr_sdk(attr, name)[source]

Filter SDK attributes

Parameters:
  • attr (attribute) – Attribute as returned by getattr().
  • name (str) – Attribute name.
Returns:

attr if passed.

lago.sdk_utils.setup_sdk_logging(logfile=None, loglevel=20)[source]

Setup a NullHandler to the root logger. If logfile is passed, additionally add a FileHandler in loglevel level.

Parameters:
  • logfile (str) – A path to setup a log file.
  • loglevel (int) – logging log level.
Returns:

None

lago.service module

class lago.service.SysVInitService(vm, name)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.service.ServicePlugin

BIN_PATH = '/sbin/service'
_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_request_start()[source]

Low level implementation of the service start request, used by the func:start method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to start, False otherwise
Return type:bool
_request_stop()[source]

Low level implementation of the service stop request, used by the func:stop method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to stop, False otherwise
Return type:bool
state()[source]

Check the current status of the service

Returns:Which state the service is at right now
Return type:ServiceState
class lago.service.SystemdContainerService(vm, name)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.service.ServicePlugin

BIN_PATH = '/usr/bin/docker'
HOST_BIN_PATH = '/usr/bin/systemctl'
_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_request_start()[source]

Low level implementation of the service start request, used by the func:start method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to start, False otherwise
Return type:bool
_request_stop()[source]

Low level implementation of the service stop request, used by the func:stop method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to stop, False otherwise
Return type:bool
state()[source]

Check the current status of the service

Returns:Which state the service is at right now
Return type:ServiceState
class lago.service.SystemdService(vm, name)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.service.ServicePlugin

BIN_PATH = '/usr/bin/systemctl'
_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_request_start()[source]

Low level implementation of the service start request, used by the func:start method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to start, False otherwise
Return type:bool
_request_stop()[source]

Low level implementation of the service stop request, used by the func:stop method

Returns:True if the service succeeded to stop, False otherwise
Return type:bool
state()[source]

Check the current status of the service

Returns:Which state the service is at right now
Return type:ServiceState

lago.ssh module

exception lago.ssh.LagoSSHTimeoutException[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

lago.ssh._gen_ssh_command_id()[source]
lago.ssh.drain_ssh_channel(chan, stdin=None, stdout=<open file '<stdout>', mode 'w'>, stderr=<open file '<stderr>', mode 'w'>)[source]
lago.ssh.get_ssh_client(ip_addr, ssh_key=None, host_name=None, ssh_tries=None, propagate_fail=True, username='root', password='123456')[source]

Get a connected SSH client

Parameters:
  • ip_addr (str) – IP address of the endpoint
  • ssh_key (str or list of str) – Path to a file which contains the private key
  • hotname (str) – The hostname of the endpoint
  • ssh_tries (int) – The number of attempts to connect to the endpoint
  • propagate_fail (bool) – If set to true, this event will be in the log and fail the outer stage. Otherwise, it will be discarded.
  • username (str) – The username to authenticate with
  • password (str) – Used for password authentication or for private key decryption
Raises:

LagoSSHTimeoutException – If the client failed to connect after “ssh_tries”

lago.ssh.interactive_ssh(ip_addr, command=None, host_name=None, ssh_key=None, username='root', password='123456')[source]
lago.ssh.interactive_ssh_channel(chan, command=None, stdin=<open file '<stdin>', mode 'r'>)[source]
lago.ssh.log_task(task, level='info', propagate_fail=True, uuid=None)

Parameterized decorator to wrap a function in a log task

Example

>>> @log_task('mytask')
... def do_something():
...     pass
lago.ssh.ssh(ip_addr, command, host_name=None, data=None, show_output=True, propagate_fail=True, tries=None, ssh_key=None, username='root', password='123456')[source]
lago.ssh.ssh_script(ip_addr, path, host_name=None, show_output=True, ssh_key=None, username='root', password='123456')[source]
lago.ssh.wait_for_ssh(ip_addr, host_name=None, connect_timeout=600, ssh_key=None, username='root', password='123456')[source]

lago.subnet_lease module

exception lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseBadPermissionsException(store_path, prv_msg)[source]

Bases: lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseException

exception lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseException(msg, prv_msg=None)[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

exception lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseLockException(store_path)[source]

Bases: lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseException

exception lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseMalformedAddrException(required_subnet)[source]

Bases: lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseException

exception lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseOutOfRangeException(required_subnet, store_range)[source]

Bases: lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseException

exception lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseStoreFullException(store_range)[source]

Bases: lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseException

exception lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseTakenException(required_subnet, lease_taken_by)[source]

Bases: lago.subnet_lease.LagoSubnetLeaseException

class lago.subnet_lease.Lease(store_path, subnet)[source]

Bases: object

Lease object is an abstraction of a lease file.

_store_path

Path to the lease’s store.

Type:str
_subnet

The subnet that this lease represents

Type:str
_path

The path to the lease file

Type:str
_has_env(uuid_path=None, uuid=None)[source]
_realise_lease_path()[source]
exist
has_env
metadata
path
subnet
to_ip_network()[source]
uuid
uuid_path
valid
class lago.subnet_lease.SubnetStore(path=None, min_third_octet=200, max_third_octet=255)[source]

Bases: object

SubnetStore object represents a store of subnets used by lago for network bridges.

Note

Currently only /24 ranges are handled, and all of them under the 192.168._min_third_octet to 192.168._max_third_octet ranges.

The leases are stored under the store’s directory (which is specified with the path argument) as json files with the form:

[
    "/path/to/prefix/uuid/file",
    "uuid_hash",
]

Where the uuid_hash is the 32 char uuid of the prefix (the contents of the uuid file at the time of doing the lease).

The helper class Lease is used to abstract the interaction with the lease files in the store (each file will be represented with a Lease object).

Cleanup of stale leases is done in a lazy manner during a request for a lease. The store will remove at most 1 stale lease in each request (see SubnetStore._lease_valid for more info).

_path

Path to the store, if not specified defaults to the value of lease_dir in the config

Type:str
_cidr

Number of bits dedicated for the network address. Has a fixed value of 24.

Type:int
_subnet_template

A template for creating ip address. Has a fixed value of 192.168.{}.0

Type:str
_min_third_octet

The minimum value of the subnets’ last octet.

Type:int
_max_third_octet

The maximum value of the subnets’ last octet.

Type:int
_min_subnet

The lowest subnet in the range of the store.

Type:netaddr.IPNetwork
_max_subnet

The highest subnet in the range of the store.

Type:netaddr.IPNetwork
_acquire(uuid_path)[source]

Lease a free network for the given uuid path

Parameters:uuid_path (str) – Path to the uuid file of a lago.Prefix
Returns:Which represents the selected subnet
Return type:netaddr.IPNetwork
Raises:LagoSubnetLeaseException – If the store is full
_acquire_given_subnet(uuid_path, subnet)[source]

Try to create a lease for subnet

Parameters:
  • uuid_path (str) – Path to the uuid file of a lago.Prefix
  • subnet (str) – dotted ipv4 subnet (for example `192.168.200.0`)
Returns:

Which represents the selected subnet

Return type:

netaddr.IPNetwork

Raises:

LagoSubnetLeaseException – If the requested subnet is not in the range of this store or its already been taken

_create_lock()[source]
_lease_owned(lease, current_uuid_path)[source]

Checks if the given lease is owned by the prefix whose uuid is in the given path

Note

The prefix must be also in the same path it was when it took the lease

Parameters:
  • path (str) – Path to the lease
  • current_uuid_path (str) – Path to the uuid to check ownership of
Returns:

True if the given lease in owned by the prefix,

False otherwise

Return type:

bool

_lease_valid(lease)[source]

Check if the given lease exist and still has a prefix that owns it. If the lease exist but its prefix isn’t, remove the lease from this store.

Parameters:lease (lago.subnet_lease.Lease) – Object representation of the lease
Returns:
If the lease and its prefix exists, return the path
to the uuid of the prefix, else return None.
Return type:str or None
_release(lease)[source]

Free the given lease

Parameters:lease (lago.subnet_lease.Lease) – The lease to free
_take_lease(lease, uuid_path, safe=True)[source]

Persist the given lease to the store and make the prefix in uuid_path his owner

Parameters:
  • lease (lago.subnet_lease.Lease) – Object representation of the lease
  • uuid_path (str) – Path to the prefix uuid
  • safe (bool) – If true (the default), validate the the lease isn’t taken.
Raises:

LagoSubnetLeaseException – If safe == True and the lease is already taken.

_validate_lease_dir()[source]
Validate that the directory used by this store exist,
otherwise create it.
acquire(uuid_path, subnet=None)[source]

Lease a free subnet for the given uuid path. If subnet is given, try to lease that subnet, otherwise try to lease a free subnet.

Parameters:
  • uuid_path (str) – Path to the uuid file of a lago.Prefix
  • subnet (str) – A subnet to lease.
Returns:

An object which represents the subnet.

Return type:

netaddr.IPAddress

Raises:
create_lease_object_from_idx(idx)[source]

Create a lease from self._subnet_template and put idx as its third octet.

Parameters:

idx (str) – The value of the third octet

Returns:

Lease object which represents the requested subnet.

Return type:

Lease

Raises:
create_lease_object_from_subnet(subnet)[source]

Create a lease from ip in a dotted decimal format, (for example 192.168.200.0/24). the _cidr will be added if not exist in subnet.

Parameters:

subnet (str) – The value of the third octet

Returns:

Lease object which represents the requested subnet.

Return type:

Lease

Raises:
get_allowed_range()[source]
Returns:
The range of the store (with lowest and highest subnets as
the bounds).
Return type:str
is_leasable_subnet(subnet)[source]

Checks if a given subnet is inside the defined provision-able range

Parameters:subnet (str) – Ip in dotted decimal format with _cidr notation (for example 192.168.200.0/24)
Returns:
True if subnet can be parsed into IPNetwork object and is
inside the range, False otherwise
Return type:bool
Raises:netaddr.AddrFormatError – If subnet can not be parsed into an ip.
list_leases(uuid=None)[source]

List current subnet leases

Parameters:uuid (str) – Filter the leases by uuid
Returns:class:~Lease: current leases
Return type:list of
path
release(subnets)[source]

Free the lease of the given subnets

Parameters:

subnets (list of str or netaddr.IPAddress) – dotted ipv4 subnet in CIDR notation (for example `192.168.200.0/24`) or IPAddress object.

Raises:

lago.sysprep module

lago.sysprep._guestfs_version(default={'major': 1L, 'minor': 20L})[source]
lago.sysprep._render_template(distro, loader, **kwargs)[source]
lago.sysprep.sysprep(disk, distro, loader=None, backend='direct', **kwargs)[source]

Run virt-sysprep on the disk, commands are built from the distro specific template and arguments passed in kwargs. If no template is available it will default to sysprep-base.j2.

Parameters:
  • disk (str) – path to disk
  • distro (str) – distro to render template for
  • loader (jinja2.BaseLoader) – Jinja2 template loader, if not passed, will search Lago’s package.
  • backend (str) – libguestfs backend to use
  • **kwargs (dict) – environment variables for Jinja2 template
Returns:

None

Raises:

RuntimeError – On virt-sysprep none 0 exit code.

lago.templates module

This module contains any disk template related classes and functions, including the repository store manager classes and template providers, some useful definitions:

  • Template repositories:
    Repository where to fetch templates from, as an http server
  • Template store:
    Local store to cache templates
  • Template:
    Unititialized disk image to use as base for other disk images
  • Template version:
    Specific version of a template, to allow getting updates without having to change the template name everywhere
class lago.templates.FileSystemTemplateProvider(root)[source]

Handles file type templates, that is, getting a disk template from the host’s filesystem

_prefixed(*path)[source]

Join all the given paths prefixed with this provider’s base root path

Parameters:*path (str) – sections of the path to join, passed as positional arguments
Returns:Joined paths prepended with the provider root path
Return type:str
download_image(handle, dest)[source]

Copies over the handl to the destination

Parameters:
  • handle (str) – path to copy over
  • dest (str) – path to copy to
Returns:

None

get_hash(handle)[source]

Returns the associated hash for the given handle, the hash file must exist (handle + '.hash').

Parameters:handle (str) – Path to the template to get the hash from
Returns:Hash for the given handle
Return type:str
get_metadata(handle)[source]

Returns the associated metadata info for the given handle, the metadata file must exist (handle + '.metadata').

Parameters:handle (str) – Path to the template to get the metadata from
Returns:Metadata for the given handle
Return type:dict
class lago.templates.HttpTemplateProvider(baseurl)[source]

This provider allows the usage of http urls for templates

download_image(handle, dest)[source]

Downloads the image from the http server

Parameters:
  • handle (str) – url from the self.baseurl to the remote template
  • dest (str) – Path to store the downloaded url to, must be a file path
Returns:

None

static extract_image_xz(path)[source]
get_hash(handle)[source]

Get the associated hash for the given handle, the hash file must exist (handle + '.hash').

Parameters:handle (str) – Path to the template to get the hash from
Returns:Hash for the given handle
Return type:str
get_metadata(handle)[source]

Returns the associated metadata info for the given handle, the metadata file must exist (handle + '.metadata'). If the given handle has an .xz extension, it will get removed when calculating the handle metadata path

Parameters:handle (str) – Path to the template to get the metadata from
Returns:Metadata for the given handle
Return type:dict
open_url(url, suffix='', dest=None)[source]

Opens the given url, trying the compressed version first. The compressed version url is generated adding the .xz extension to the url and adding the given suffix after that .xz extension. If dest passed, it will download the data to that path if able

Parameters:
  • url (str) – relative url from the self.baseurl to retrieve
  • suffix (str) – optional suffix to append to the url after adding the compressed extension to the path
  • dest (str or None) – Path to save the data to
Returns:

response object to read from (lazy read), closed

if no dest passed

Return type:

urllib.addinfourl

Raises:

RuntimeError – if the url gave http error when retrieving it

exception lago.templates.LagoMissingTemplateError(name, path)[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

class lago.templates.Template(name, versions)[source]

Disk image template class

name

Name of this template

Type:str
_versions (dict(str

TemplateVersion)): versions for this template

get_latest_version()[source]

Retrieves the latest version for this template, the latest being the one with the newest timestamp

Returns:TemplateVersion
get_version(ver_name=None)[source]

Get the given version for this template, or the latest

Parameters:ver_name (str or None) – Version to retieve, None for the latest
Returns:
The version matching the given name or the latest
one
Return type:TemplateVersion
class lago.templates.TemplateRepository(dom, path)[source]

A template repository is a single source for templates, that uses different providers to actually retrieve them. That means for example that the ‘ovirt’ template repository, could support the ‘http’ and a theoretical ‘gluster’ template providers.

_dom

Specification of the template

Type:dict
_providers

Providers instances for any source in the spec

Type:dict
_get_provider(spec)[source]

Get the provider for the given template spec

Parameters:spec (dict) – Template spec
Returns:A provider instance for that spec
Return type:HttpTemplateProvider or FileSystemTemplateProvider
classmethod from_url(path)[source]

Instantiate a TemplateRepository instance from the data in a file or url

Parameters:path (str) – Path or url to the json file to load
Returns:A new instance
Return type:TemplateRepository
get_by_name(name)[source]

Retrieve a template by it’s name

Parameters:name (str) – Name of the template to retrieve
Raises:LagoMissingTemplateError – if no template is found
name

Getter for the template repo name

Returns:the name of this template repo
Return type:str
path

Getter for the template repo path

Returns:the path/url of this template repo
Return type:str
class lago.templates.TemplateStore(path)[source]

Local cache to store templates

The store uses various files to keep track of the templates cached, access and versions. An example template store looks like:

$ tree /var/lib/lago/store/
/var/lib/lago/store/
├── in_office_repo:centos6_engine:v2.tmp
├── in_office_repo:centos7_engine:v5.tmp
├── in_office_repo:fedora22_host:v2.tmp
├── phx_repo:centos6_engine:v2
├── phx_repo:centos6_engine:v2.hash
├── phx_repo:centos6_engine:v2.metadata
├── phx_repo:centos6_engine:v2.users
├── phx_repo:centos7_engine:v4.tmp
├── phx_repo:centos7_host:v4.tmp
└── phx_repo:storage-nfs:v1.tmp

There you can see the files:

  • *.tmp
    Temporary file created while downloading the template from the repository (depends on the provider)
  • ${repo_name}:${template_name}:${template_version}
    This file is the actual disk image template
  • *.hash
    Cached hash for the template disk image
  • *.metadata
    Metadata for this template image in json format, usually this includes the distro and root-password
__contains__(temp_ver)[source]

Checks if a given version is in this store

Parameters:temp_ver (TemplateVersion) – Version to look for
Returns:True if the version is in this store
Return type:bool
_prefixed(*path)[source]

Join the given paths and prepend this stores path

Parameters:*path (str) – list of paths to join, as positional arguments
Returns:all the paths joined and prepended with the store path
Return type:str
download(temp_ver, store_metadata=True)[source]

Retrieve the given template version

Parameters:
  • temp_ver (TemplateVersion) – template version to retrieve
  • store_metadata (bool) – If set to False, will not refresh the local metadata with the retrieved one
Returns:

None

get_path(temp_ver)[source]

Get the path of the given version in this store

Parameters:TemplateVersion (temp_ver) – version to look for
Returns:The path to the template version inside the store
Return type:str
Raises:RuntimeError – if the template is not in the store
get_stored_hash(temp_ver)[source]

Retrieves the hash for the given template version from the store

Parameters:temp_ver (TemplateVersion) – template version to retrieve the hash for
Returns:hash of the given template version
Return type:str
get_stored_metadata(temp_ver)[source]

Retrieves the metadata for the given template version from the store

Parameters:temp_ver (TemplateVersion) – template version to retrieve the metadata for
Returns:the metadata of the given template version
Return type:dict
class lago.templates.TemplateVersion(name, source, handle, timestamp)[source]

Each template can have multiple versions, each of those is actually a different disk template file representation, under the same base name.

download(destination)[source]

Retrieves this template to the destination file

Parameters:destination (str) – file path to write this template to
Returns:None
get_hash()[source]

Returns the associated hash for this template version

Returns:Hash for this version
Return type:str
get_metadata()[source]

Returns the associated metadata info for this template version

Returns:Metadata for this version
Return type:dict
timestamp()[source]

Getter for the timestamp

lago.templates._PROVIDERS = {'file': <class lago.templates.FileSystemTemplateProvider>, 'http': <class lago.templates.HttpTemplateProvider>}

Registry for template providers

lago.templates.find_repo_by_name(name, repo_dir=None)[source]

Searches the given repo name inside the repo_dir (will use the config value ‘template_repos’ if no repo dir passed), will rise an exception if not found

Parameters:
  • name (str) – Name of the repo to search
  • repo_dir (str) – Directory where to search the repo
Returns:

path to the repo

Return type:

str

Raises:

RuntimeError – if not found

lago.utils module

class lago.utils.CommandStatus[source]

Bases: lago.utils.CommandStatus

class lago.utils.EggTimer(timeout)[source]
elapsed()[source]
class lago.utils.ExceptionTimer(timeout)[source]

Bases: object

start()[source]
stop()[source]
class lago.utils.Flock(path, readonly=False, blocking=True)[source]

Bases: object

A wrapper class around flock

path

Path to the lock file

Type:str
readonly

If true create a shared lock, otherwise create an exclusive lock.

Type:bool
blocking

lock is already acquired.

Type:bool
acquire()[source]

Acquire the lock

Raises:IOError – if the call to flock fails
release()[source]
exception lago.utils.LagoException[source]

Bases: exceptions.Exception

exception lago.utils.LagoInitException[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

exception lago.utils.LagoUserException[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

class lago.utils.LockFile(path, timeout=None, lock_cls=None, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: object

Context manager that creates a file based lock, with optional timeout in the acquire operation.

This context manager should be used only from the main Thread.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to the dir to lock
  • timeout (int) – timeout in seconds to wait while acquiring the lock
  • lock_cls (callable) – A callable which returns a Lock object that implements the acquire and release methods. The default is Flock.
  • **kwargs (dict) – Any other param to pass to the lock_cls instance.
__enter__()[source]

Start the lock with timeout if needed in the acquire operation

Raises:TimerException – if the timeout is reached before acquiring the lock
class lago.utils.RollbackContext(*args)[source]

Bases: object

A context manager for recording and playing rollback. The first exception will be remembered and re-raised after rollback

Sample usage: > with RollbackContext() as rollback: > step1() > rollback.prependDefer(lambda: undo step1) > def undoStep2(arg): pass > step2() > rollback.prependDefer(undoStep2, arg)

More examples see tests/utilsTests.py @ vdsm code

__exit__(exc_type, exc_value, traceback)[source]

If this function doesn’t return True (or raises a different exception), python re-raises the original exception once this function is finished.

clear()[source]
defer(func, *args, **kwargs)[source]
prependDefer(func, *args, **kwargs)[source]
class lago.utils.TemporaryDirectory(ignore_errors=True)[source]

Bases: object

Context manager that creates a temporary directory and provides its path as a property.

Parameters:ignore_errors (bool) – ignore errors when trying to remove directory
Raises:OSError – anything that ‘shutil.rmtree’ might raise
exception lago.utils.TimerException[source]

Bases: exceptions.Exception

Exception to throw when a timeout is reached

class lago.utils.VectorThread(targets)[source]
join_all(raise_exceptions=True)[source]
start_all()[source]
lago.utils._CommandStatus

alias of lago.utils.CommandStatus

lago.utils._add_subparser_to_cp(cp, section, actions, incl_unset)[source]
lago.utils._ret_via_queue(func, queue)[source]
lago.utils._run_command(command, input_data=None, stdin=None, out_pipe=-1, err_pipe=-1, env=None, uuid=None, **kwargs)[source]

Runs a command

Parameters:
  • command (list of str) – args of the command to execute, including the command itself as command[0] as [‘ls’, ‘-l’]
  • input_data (str) – If passed, will feed that data to the subprocess through stdin
  • out_pipe (int or file) – File descriptor as passed to :ref:subprocess.Popen to use as stdout
  • stdin (int or file) – File descriptor as passed to :ref:subprocess.Popen to use as stdin
  • err_pipe (int or file) – File descriptor as passed to :ref:subprocess.Popen to use as stderr
  • of str (env(dict) – str): If set, will use the given dict as env for the subprocess
  • uuid (uuid) – If set the command will be logged with the given uuid converted to string, otherwise, a uuid v4 will be generated.
  • **kwargs – Any other keyword args passed will be passed to the :ref:subprocess.Popen call
Returns:

result of the interactive execution

Return type:

lago.utils.CommandStatus

lago.utils.add_timestamp_suffix(base_string)[source]
lago.utils.argparse_to_ini(parser, root_section='lago', incl_unset=False)[source]
lago.utils.compress(input_file, block_size, fail_on_error=True)[source]
lago.utils.cp(input_file, output_file, fail_on_error=True)[source]
lago.utils.deepcopy(original_obj)[source]

Creates a deep copy of an object with no crossed referenced lists or dicts, useful when loading from yaml as anchors generate those cross-referenced dicts and lists

Parameters:original_obj (object) – Object to deep copy
Returns:deep copy of the object
Return type:object
lago.utils.filter_spec(spec, paths, wildcard='*', separator='/')[source]

Remove keys from a spec file. For example, with the following path: domains//disks//metadata all the metadata dicts from all domains disks will be removed.

Parameters:
  • spec (dict) – spec to remove keys from
  • paths (list) – list of paths to the keys that should be removed
  • wildcard (str) – wildcard character
  • separator (str) – path separator
Returns:

None

Raises:

utils.LagoUserException – If a malformed path was detected

lago.utils.func_vector(target, args_sequence)[source]
lago.utils.get_hash(file_path, checksum='sha1')[source]

Generate a hash for the given file

Parameters:
  • file_path (str) – Path to the file to generate the hash for
  • checksum (str) – hash to apply, one of the supported by hashlib, for example sha1 or sha512
Returns:

hash for that file

Return type:

str

lago.utils.get_qemu_info(path, backing_chain=False, fail_on_error=True)[source]

Get info on a given qemu disk

Parameters:
  • path (str) – Path to the required disk
  • backing_chain (boo) – if true, include also info about
  • image predecessors. (the) –
Returns:

if backing_chain == True then a list of dicts else a dict

Return type:

object

lago.utils.in_prefix(prefix_class, workdir_class)[source]
lago.utils.invoke_different_funcs_in_parallel(*funcs)[source]
lago.utils.invoke_in_parallel(func, *args_sequences)[source]
lago.utils.ipv4_to_mac(ip)[source]
lago.utils.json_dump(obj, f)[source]
lago.utils.load_virt_stream(virt_fd)[source]

Loads the given conf stream into a dict, trying different formats if needed

Parameters:virt_fd (str) – file like objcect with the virt config to load
Returns:Loaded virt config
Return type:dict
lago.utils.qemu_rebase(target, backing_file, safe=True, fail_on_error=True)[source]

changes the backing file of ‘source’ to ‘backing_file’ If backing_file is specified as “” (the empty string), then the image is rebased onto no backing file (i.e. it will exist independently of any backing file). (Taken from qemu-img man page)

Parameters:
  • target (str) – Path to the source disk
  • backing_file (str) – path to the base disk
  • safe (bool) – if false, allow unsafe rebase (check qemu-img docs for more info)
lago.utils.read_nonblocking(file_descriptor)[source]
lago.utils.rotate_dir(base_dir)[source]
lago.utils.run_command(command, input_data=None, out_pipe=-1, err_pipe=-1, env=None, **kwargs)[source]

Runs a command non-interactively

Parameters:
  • command (list of str) – args of the command to execute, including the command itself as command[0] as [‘ls’, ‘-l’]
  • input_data (str) – If passed, will feed that data to the subprocess through stdin
  • out_pipe (int or file) – File descriptor as passed to :ref:subprocess.Popen to use as stdout
  • err_pipe (int or file) – File descriptor as passed to :ref:subprocess.Popen to use as stderr
  • of str (env(dict) – str): If set, will use the given dict as env for the subprocess
  • **kwargs – Any other keyword args passed will be passed to the :ref:subprocess.Popen call
Returns:

result of the interactive execution

Return type:

lago.utils.CommandStatus

lago.utils.run_command_with_validation(cmd, fail_on_error=True, msg='An error has occurred')[source]
lago.utils.run_interactive_command(command, env=None, **kwargs)[source]

Runs a command interactively, reusing the current stdin, stdout and stderr

Parameters:
  • command (list of str) – args of the command to execute, including the command itself as command[0] as [‘ls’, ‘-l’]
  • of str (env(dict) – str): If set, will use the given dict as env for the subprocess
  • **kwargs – Any other keyword args passed will be passed to the :ref:subprocess.Popen call
Returns:

result of the interactive execution

Return type:

lago.utils.CommandStatus

lago.utils.service_is_enabled(name)[source]
lago.utils.sparse(input_file, input_format, fail_on_error=True)[source]
lago.utils.ver_cmp(ver1, ver2)[source]

Compare lago versions

Parameters:
  • ver1 (str) – version string
  • ver2 (str) – version string
Returns:

Return negative if ver1<ver2, zero if ver1==ver2, positive if ver1>ver2.

lago.utils.with_logging(func)[source]

lago.validation module

lago.validation.check_import(module_name)[source]

Search if a module exists, and it is possible to try importing it

Parameters:module_name (str) – module to import
Returns:True if the package is found
Return type:bool

lago.virt module

exception lago.virt.LagoUnknownVMTypeError(vm_type_name, vm_types)[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoUserException

class lago.virt.VirtEnv(prefix, vm_specs, net_specs)[source]

Bases: object

Env properties: * prefix * vms * net

_create_net(net_spec, compat)[source]
_create_vm(vm_spec)[source]
_get_stop_shutdown_common_args(vm_names)[source]

Get the common arguments for stop and shutdown commands :param vm_names: The names of the requested vms :type vm_names: list of str

Returns
list of plugins.vm.VMProviderPlugin:
vms objects that should be stopped

list of virt.Network: net objects that should be stopped str: log message

Raises:utils.LagoUserException – If a vm name doesn’t exist
_get_unused_nets(vms_to_stop)[source]

Return a list of nets that used only by the vms in vms_to_stop :param vms_to_stop: The names of the requested vms :type vms_to_stop: list of str

Returns
list of virt.Network: net objects that used only by
vms in vms_to_stop
Raises:utils.LagoUserException – If a vm name doesn’t exist
bootstrap()[source]
create_snapshots(**kwargs)[source]
export_vms(vms_names, standalone, dst_dir, compress, init_file_name, out_format, collect_only=False, with_threads=True)[source]
classmethod from_prefix(prefix)[source]
generate_init(dst, out_format, vms_to_include, filters=None)[source]

Generate an init file which represents this env and can be used with the images created by self.export_vms :param dst: path and name of the new init file :type dst: str :param out_format: formatter for the output (the default is yaml) :type out_format: plugins.output.OutFormatPlugin :param filters: list of paths to keys that should be removed from

the init file
Parameters:(list of (vms_to_include) – class:lago.plugins.vm.VMPlugin): list of vms to include in the init file
Returns:None
get_compat()[source]

Get compatibility level for this environment - which is the Lago version used to create this environment

get_env_spec(filters=None)[source]

Get the spec of the current env. The spec will hold the info about all the domains and networks associated with this env. :param filters: list of paths to keys that should be removed from

the init file
Returns:the spec of the current env
Return type:dict
get_net(name=None)[source]
get_nets()[source]
get_snapshots(domains=None)[source]

Get the list of snapshots for each domain :param domanins: list of the domains to get the snapshots :type domanins: list of str :param for, all will be returned if none or empty list passed:

Returns:with the domain names and the list of snapshots for each
Return type:dict of str -> list(str)
get_vm(name)[source]
get_vms(vm_names=None)[source]

Returns the vm objects associated with vm_names if vm_names is None, return all the vms in the prefix :param vm_names: The names of the requested vms :type vm_names: list of str

Returns
dict: Which contains the requested vm objects indexed by name
Raises:utils.LagoUserException – If a vm name doesn’t exist
prefixed_name(unprefixed_name, max_length=0)[source]

Returns a uuid pefixed identifier :param unprefixed_name: Name to add a prefix to :type unprefixed_name: str :param max_length: maximum length of the resultant prefixed name,

will adapt the given name and the length of the uuid ot fit it
Returns:prefixed identifier for the given unprefixed name
Return type:str
revert_snapshots(**kwargs)[source]
save(**kwargs)[source]
shutdown(vm_names, reboot=False)[source]
start(vm_names=None)[source]
stop(vm_names=None)[source]
virt_path(*args)[source]
lago.virt._gen_ssh_command_id()[source]
lago.virt._guestfs_copy_path(g, guest_path, host_path)[source]
lago.virt._path_to_xml(basename)[source]
lago.virt.log_task(task, level='info', propagate_fail=True, uuid=None)

Parameterized decorator to wrap a function in a log task

Example

>>> @log_task('mytask')
... def do_something():
...     pass

lago.vm module

class lago.vm.DefaultVM(env, spec)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.vm.VMPlugin

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 43
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
class lago.vm.SSHVMProvider(vm)[source]

Bases: lago.plugins.vm.VMProviderPlugin

bootstrap(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Does any actions needed to get the domain ready to be used, ran on prefix init. :returns: None

create_snapshot(name, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Take any actions needed to create a snapshot :param name: Name for the snapshot, will be used as key to retrieve

it later
Returns:None
defined(*args, **kwargs)[source]
revert_snapshot(name, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Take any actions needed to revert/restore a snapshot :param name: Name for the snapshot, same that was set on creation :type name: str

Returns:None
running(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Returns: (bool): True if the VM is running

start(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Start a domain :returns: None

state(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Return the current state of the domain :returns: Small description of the current domain state :rtype: str

stop(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Stop a domain :returns: None

lago.workdir module

A workdir is the base directory where lago will store all the files it needs and that are unique (not shared between workdirs).

It’s basic structure is a directory with one soft link and multiple directories, one per prefix. Where the link points to the default prefix to use.

exception lago.workdir.LagoPrefixAlreadyExistsError(prefix_name, workdir_path)[source]

Bases: lago.utils.LagoException

exception lago.workdir.MalformedWorkdir[source]

Bases: lago.workdir.WorkdirError

exception lago.workdir.PrefixAlreadyExists[source]

Bases: lago.workdir.WorkdirError

exception lago.workdir.PrefixNotFound[source]

Bases: lago.workdir.WorkdirError

class lago.workdir.Workdir(path, prefix_class=<class 'lago.prefix.Prefix'>)[source]

Bases: object

This class reperesents a base workdir, where you can store multiple prefixes

Properties:
path(str): Path to the workdir perfixes(dict of str->self.prefix_class): dict with the prefixes in the workdir, by name current(str): Name of the current prefix prefix_class(type): Class to use when creating prefixes
_set_current(new_current)[source]

Change the current default prefix, for internal usage

Parameters:new_current (str) – Name of the new current prefix, it must already exist
Returns:None
Raises:PrefixNotFound – if the given prefix name does not exist in the workdir
_update_current()[source]

Makes sure that a current is set

add_prefix(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Adds a new prefix to the workdir.

Parameters:
  • name (str) – Name of the new prefix to add
  • *args – args to pass along to the prefix constructor
  • *kwargs – kwargs to pass along to the prefix constructor
Returns:

The newly created prefix

Raises:
cleanup()[source]

Attempt to set a new current symlink if it is broken. If no other prefixes exist and the workdir is empty, try to delete the entire workdir.

Raises:MalformedWorkdir – if no prefixes were found, but the workdir is not empty.
destroy(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Destroy all the given prefixes and remove any left files if no more prefixes are left

Parameters:
  • prefix_names (list of str) – list of prefix names to destroy, if None
  • passed (default) –
get_prefix(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Retrieve a prefix, resolving the current one if needed

Parameters:name (str) – name of the prefix to retrieve, or current to get the current one
Returns:instance of the prefix with the given name
Return type:self.prefix_class
initialize(prefix_name='default', *args, **kwargs)[source]

Initializes a workdir by adding a new prefix to the workdir.

Parameters:
  • prefix_name (str) – Name of the new prefix to add
  • *args – args to pass along to the prefix constructor
  • *kwargs – kwargs to pass along to the prefix constructor
Returns:

The newly created prefix

Raises:

PrefixAlreadyExists – if the prefix name already exists in the workdir

static is_possible_workdir(path)[source]

A quick method to suggest if the path is a possible workdir. This does not guarantee that the workdir is not malformed, only that by simple heuristics it might be one. For a full check use is_workdir().

Parameters:path (str) – Path
Returns:True if path might be a work dir.
Return type:bool
classmethod is_workdir(path)[source]

Check if the given path is a workdir

Parameters:path (str) – Path to check
Returns:True if the given path is a workdir
Return type:bool
join(*args)[source]

Gets a joined path prefixed with the workdir path

Parameters:*args (str) – path sections to join
Returns:Joined path prefixed with the workdir path
Return type:str
load()[source]

Loads the prefixes that are available is the workdir

Returns:None
Raises:MalformedWorkdir – if the wordir is malformed
classmethod resolve_workdir_path(start_path='.')[source]

Look for an existing workdir in the given path, in a path/.lago dir, or in a .lago dir under any of it’s parent directories

Parameters:start_path (str) – path to start the search from, if None passed, it will use the current dir
Returns:path to the found prefix
Return type:str
Raises:LagoUserException – if no prefix was found
set_current(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Change the current default prefix

Parameters:new_current (str) – Name of the new current prefix, it must already exist
Returns:None
Raises:PrefixNotFound – if the given prefix name does not exist in the workdir
exception lago.workdir.WorkdirError[source]

Bases: exceptions.RuntimeError

Base exception for workdir errors, catch this one to catch any workdir error

lago.workdir.workdir_loaded(func)[source]

Decorator to make sure that the workdir is loaded when calling the decorated function

Releases

Release process

Versioning

For lago we use a similar approach to semantic versioning, that is:

X.Y.Z

For example:

0.1.0
1.2.123
2.0.0
2.0.1

Where:

  • Z changes for each patch (number of patches since X.Y tag)
  • Y changes from time to time, with milestones (arbitrary bump), only for backwards compatible changes
  • X changes if it’s a non-backwards compatible change or arbitrarily (we don’t like Y getting too high, or big milestone reached, …)

The source tree has tags with the X.Y versions, that’s where the packaging process gets them from.

On each X or Y change a new tag is created.

For now we have only one branch (master) and we will try to keep it that way as long as possible, if at some point we have to support old versions, then we will create a branch for each X version in the form:

vX

For example:

v0
v1

There’s a helper script to resolve the current version, based on the last tag and the compatibility breaking commits since then, to get the version for the current repo run:

$ scripts/version_manager.py . version

RPM Versioning

The rpm versions differ from the generic version in that they have the -1 suffix, where the -1 is the release for that rpm (usually will never change, only when repackaging without any code change, something that is not so easy for us but if there’s any external packagers is helpful for them)

Repository layout

Tree schema of the repository:

lago
├── stable <-- subdirs for each major version to avoid accidental
│   │          non-backwards compatible ugrade
│   │
│   ├── 0.0  <-- Contains any 0.* release for lago
│   │   ├── ChangeLog_0.0.txt
│   │   ├── rpm
│   │   │   ├── el6
│   │   │   ├── el7
│   │   │   ├── fc22
│   │   │   └── fc23
│   │   └── sources
│   ├── 1.0
│   │   ├── ChangeLog_1.0.txt
│   │   ├── rpm
│   │   │   ├── el6
│   │   │   ├── el7
│   │   │   ├── fc22
│   │   │   └── fc23
│   │   └── sources
│   └── 2.0
│       ├── ChangeLog_2.0.txt
│       ├── rpm
│       │   ├── el6
│       │   ├── el7
│       │   ├── fc22
│       │   └── fc23
│       └── sources
└── unstable <-- Multiple subdirs are needed only if branching
    ├── 0.0  <-- Contains 0.* builds that might or might not have
    │   │        been released
    │   ├── latest  <--- keeps the latest build from merged, static
    │   │                url
    │   ├── snapshot-lago_0.0_pipeline_1
    │   ├── snapshot-lago_0.0_pipeline_2
    │   │         ^ contains the rpms created on the pipeline build
    │   │           number 2 for the 0.0 version, this is needed to
    │   │           ease the automated testing of the rpms
    │   │
    │   └── ... <-- this is cleaned up from time to time to avoid
    │               using too much space
    ├── 1.0
    │   ├── latest
    │   ├── snapshot-lago_1.0_pipeline_1
    │   ├── snapshot-lago_pipeline_2
    │   └── ...
    └── 2.0
        ├── latest
        ├── snapshot-lago_2.0_pipeline_1
        ├── snapshot-lago_2.0_pipeline_2
        └── ...

Promotion of artifacts to stable, aka. releasing

The goal is to have an automated set of tests, that check in depth lago, and run them in a timely fashion, and if passed, deploy to stable. As right now that’s not yet possible, so for now the tests and deploy is done manually.

The promotion of the artifacts is done in these cases:

  • New major version bump (X+1.0, for example 1.0 -> 2.0)
  • New minor version bump (X.Y+1, for exampyre 1.1 -> 1.2)
  • If it passed certain time since the last X or Y version bumps (X.Y.Z+n, for example 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2)
  • If there are blocking/important bugfixes (X.Y.Z+n)
  • If there are important new features (X.Y+1 or X.Y.Z+n)

How to mark a major version

Whenever there’s a commit that breaks the backwards compatibility, you should add to it the pseudo-header:

Sem-Ver: api-breaking

And that will force a major version bump for any package built from it, that is done so in the moment when you submit the commit in gerrit, the packages that are build from it have the correct version.

After that, make sure that you tag that commit too, so it will be easy to look for it in the future.

The release procedure on the maintainer side

  1. Select the snapshot repo you want to release

  2. Test the rpms, for now we only have the tests from projects that use it:
  3. On non-major version bump X.Y+1 or X.Y.Z+n
  4. On Major version bump X+1.0
  5. Deploy the rpms from snapshot to dest repo and copy the ChangeLog from the tarball to ChangeLog_X.0.txt in the base of the stable/X.0/ dir

  6. Send email to devel with the announcement and the changelog since the previous tag that you kept aside, feel free to change the body to your liking:

    Subject: [day-month-year] New lago release - X.Y.Z
    
    Hi everyone! There's a new lago release with version X.Y.Z ready for you to
    upgrade!
    
    Here are the changes:
        <CHANGELOG HERE>
    
    Enjoy!
    

Changelog

Here you can find the full changelog for this version

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