MetaReserve-GENI

MetaReserve plugin for GENI resources.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.2 AND Python 2.7
• MetaReserve >= 0.1.0

Additionally, for python2.7, the following packages are needed:

• lxml
• six
• geni-lib==0.9.9.2
• xmltodict

Installing

0. Run pip3 install . --user in the root directory of the project.
1. Download your credentials from cloudlab --> profile upper-right corner --> Download Credentials
2. ssh-keygen -p -f [file] -P [old password] -N to decrypt private key, on a copy of your downloaded credentials.
3. Copy the certificate from your original credentials to the decrypted credentials
4. Generate your own ssh key-pair
5. build-context --type cloudlab --cert cloudlab.pem --pubkey [key] --project [project], this will create ~/.bssw/geni/

Usage

With this package, a new command geni-reserve will be available. It can doe 3 things:

• list slices & allocated resources for a given slice.
• allocate resources on a cluster site. Users can specify the hostname, hardware type and image to boot per node. Configurations can be saved an reused.
• deallocate resources. Use geni-reserve -h for more information.