From cbb919cf6fc2a38c55456cc167b512178e879ae1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Edoardo Putti <edoardo.putti@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:35:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] draft for ansible module, create a lxc container

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 lilik_container.py | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 180 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lilik_container.py

diff --git a/lilik_container.py b/lilik_container.py
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+
+
+# rewrite of the create_container playbook in Python; this happens because
+# the module for LXC container shipped with ansible is not working right now
+#import lxc
+
+# liliks infrastructure
+#container_name = "gogs"
+#logical_volume_name = "vm_gogs"
+#lvm_volume_group = "sysvg"
+#filesystem_size = "5G"
+
+# lilik preferred distro
+#distro = "debian"
+#release = "jessie"
+
+# our host
+#backing_store = "lvm"
+#filesystem_type = "ext4"
+#
+#
+#lxc_create_options = {
+#    "release": release,
+#    "name": container_name,
+#    "lvname": logical_volume_name,
+#    "vgname": lvm_volume_group,
+#    "fstype": filesystem_type,
+#    "fssize": filesystem_size,
+#}
+#
+#container = lxc.Container(container_name)
+#container.create(distro, args=lxc_create_options)
+#container.start()
+
+#---
+#- hosts: mcfly
+#  remote_user: root
+#  tasks:
+#    - name: create a lxc container
+#      lxc_container:
+#        name: gogs
+#        backing_store: lvm
+#        container_log: true
+#        fs_size: 5G
+#        fs_type: ext4
+#        lv_name: vm_gogs
+#        state: started
+#        template: debian
+#        template_options: --release jessie
+#        vg_name: sysvg
+#        container_command: apt-get update; apt-get install python
+
+import lxc
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
+
+class LilikContainer(object):
+    """
+    A generic lxc container manipulation object based on python-lxc
+    """
+    def __init__(self, module):
+        self.module = module
+        self.state = module.params['state']
+        self.name = module.params['name']
+        self.template = module.params['template']
+        self.backing_store = module.params['backing_store']
+        self.lvname = module.params['lv_name']
+        self.vgname = module.params['vg_name']
+        self.fstype = module.params['fs_type']
+        self.fssize = module.params['fssize']
+        
+
+    def create_container(self):
+        """
+        Create a lxc.Container object and returns it
+        """
+        container_options = {
+           'bdev': self.backing_store,
+           'lvname': self.lvname,
+           'vgname': self.vgname,
+           'fstype': self.fstype,
+           'fssize': self.fssize
+        }
+
+        container = lxc.Container(name = self.name)
+
+        return container.create(
+                    template = self.template,
+                    args = container_options,
+                    bdevtype=self.backing_store
+               )
+                                 
+    def destroy_container(self):
+        pass
+                                   
+
+def main():
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec = dict(
+            backing_store = dict(
+                                default='dir',
+                                choices=['dir', 'lvm', 'loop', 'btrsf', 'overlayfs', 'zfs', type='str'],
+            ),
+            container_command = dict(
+                                    required=False,
+                                    type='str',
+            ),
+            fs_size = dict(
+                        required=False,
+                        default='5G',
+                        type='str',
+            ),
+            fs_type = dict(
+                        required=False,
+                        default='ext4',
+                        type='str',
+            ),
+            lv_name = dict(
+                        required=False,
+                        type='str',
+            ),
+            name = dict(
+                    required=True,
+                    type='str',
+            ),
+            state = dict(
+                        default='started',
+                        choices=['started', 'stopped', 'restarted', 'absent', 'frozen'],
+                        type='str',
+            ),
+            template = dict(
+                        required=False,
+                        default='ubuntu',
+                        type='str',
+            ),
+            template_options = dict(required=False),
+            vg_name = dict(
+                        required=False,
+                        default='lxc',
+                        type='str',
+            ),
+        )
+    )
+
+    container = LilikContainer(module)
+
+    result = {}
+    result['name'] = container.name
+    result['state'] = container.state
+
+    if container.state == 'absent':
+
+        # test wether the container is absent or not
+        if container.name in lxc.list_containers():
+            module.fail_json(changed=False)
+
+        # the container has been removed
+        else:
+            module.exit_json(changed=True)
+
+    elif container.state in ['started', 'stopped', 'restarted', 'frozen']:
+        
+        if container.name in lxc.list_containers():
+            module.exit_json(changed=True)
+        else:
+            try:
+                new_container = container.create_container()
+                module.exit_json(changed=True)
+            except Exception:
+                module.fail_json(
+                        changed=False,
+                        msg='An excption was raised when creating the container'
+                )
+            
+
+#    container.name not in lxc.list_containers():
+#        module.fail_json(changed=False)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()