Hi guys,
I'm an OpenNebula developer and I had a chat today with Roger and he told me
about this project. As far as I've seen, it looks like a perfect match for
many
things we want to do in our project.
One of these thing is to provide our users with a virtual router that
autoconfigures itself matching the OpenNebula configuration and does things
like: dns server, dhcp server, etc...
So, my question here is, I'd like to call some acf funcionalities from
inside a
pogram (namely reconfigure dnsmasq and restart the service), so far I've
seen
the only way to do this programmatically is to log-in with curl for
instance,
get the cookie, and pass it along to the following requests.
Is there any alternative? should I do this in a different way? would you
consider applying a patch developed by me that enables http basic
authentication
in /etc/acf/acf.conf so I can simply do the equivalent of curl -X POST -u
<username>:<pass> https://... without the need of handling cookies?
cheers,
Jaime
--
Jaime Melis
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis@opennebula.org
Hello,
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jaime Melis <jmelis@opennebula.org> wrote:
> Hi guys,>> I'm an OpenNebula developer and I had a chat today with Roger and he told me> about this project. As far as I've seen, it looks like a perfect match for> many> things we want to do in our project.>> One of these thing is to provide our users with a virtual router that> autoconfigures itself matching the OpenNebula configuration and does things> like: dns server, dhcp server, etc...>> So, my question here is, I'd like to call some acf funcionalities from> inside a> pogram (namely reconfigure dnsmasq and restart the service), so far I've> seen> the only way to do this programmatically is to log-in with curl for> instance,> get the cookie, and pass it along to the following requests.>> Is there any alternative? should I do this in a different way? would you> consider applying a patch developed by me that enables http basic> authentication> in /etc/acf/acf.conf so I can simply do the equivalent of curl -X POST -u> <username>:<pass> https://... without the need of handling cookies?
I believe this is one of the problems that ACF2 looks to solve. But I
don't personally work on ACF/ACF2, so I can't tell you for certain.
Other than that, I think a patch would be fine as a short-term
solution. We (myself and my employer) are certainly interested in
using ACF for instance orchestration, too, in our internal builds of
Alpine.
William
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If you are trying to remotely access ACF, yes, you must manage the cookie right now. (There are command-line or programmable options if you are on the device) If you would like to submit a patch to allow http basic authentication, I would be okay with applying it. Thanks for your interest in ACF. If you need assistance in creating the patch, please let me know.
Ted
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From: Jaime Melis <jmelis@opennebula.org>
To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 7:36 PM
Subject: [alpine-devel] using acf as a rest API
Hi guys,
I'm an OpenNebula developer and I had a chat today with Roger and he told me
about this project. As far as I've seen, it looks like a perfect match for many
things we want to do in our project.
One of these thing is to provide our users with a virtual router that
autoconfigures itself matching the OpenNebula configuration and does things
like: dns server, dhcp server, etc...
So, my question here is, I'd like to call some acf funcionalities from inside a
pogram (namely reconfigure dnsmasq and restart the service), so far I've seen
the only way to do this programmatically is to log-in with curl for instance,
get the cookie, and pass it along to the following requests.
Is there any alternative? should I do this in a different way? would you
consider applying a patch developed by me that enables http basic authentication
in /etc/acf/acf.conf so I can simply do the equivalent of curl -X POST -u
<username>:<pass> https://... without the need of handling cookies?
cheers,
Jaime
--
Jaime Melis
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis@opennebula.org