# Complete User Guide for the Orchestration Service

Orchestration is a service that you can use to create and manage cloud resources such as databases, load balancers, and servers, and the software installed on servers.

## Table of Contents

- Concepts
- Prerequisites
- Client
- Orchestration service
- Templates
- Validate template
  - Validate a template from a file
  - Validate Template from URL
- Stacks
- Preview stack
  - Preview a stack from a template file
  - Preview a stack from a template URL
- Create stack
  - Create a stack from a template file
  - Create a stack from a template URL
- List stacks
- Get stack
- Get stack template
- Update stack
  - Update a stack from a template file
  - Update Stack from Template URL
- Delete stack
- Abandon Stack
- Adopt stack
- Stack resources
- List stack resources
- Get stack resource
- Get stack resource metadata
- Stack resource events
- List stack events
- List stack resource events
- Get stack resource event
- Resource types
- List resource types
- Get resource type
- Get resource type template
- Build info
- Get build info

## Concepts

To use the Orchestration service effectively, you should understand the following key concepts:

- Template: A JSON or YAML document that describes how a set of resources should be assembled to produce a working deployment. The template specifies the resources to use, the attributes of these resources that are parameterized and the information that is sent to the user when a template is instantiated.
- Resource: Some component of your architecture (a cloud server, a group of scaled cloud servers, a load balancer, some configuration management system, and so on) that is defined in a template.
- Stack: A running instance of a template. When a stack is created, the resources specified in the template are created.

## Prerequisites

### Client

To use the Orchestration service, you must first instantiate a `OpenStack` or `Rackspace` client object.

- If you are working with an OpenStack cloud, instantiate an `OpenCloud\OpenStack` client as follows:

      use OpenCloud\OpenStack;

      $client = new OpenStack('<OPENSTACK CLOUD IDENTITY ENDPOINT URL>', array(
          'username' => '<YOUR OPENSTACK CLOUD ACCOUNT USERNAME>',
          'password' => '<YOUR OPENSTACK CLOUD ACCOUNT PASSWORD>'
      ));

- If you are working with the Rackspace cloud, instantiate a `OpenCloud\Rackspace` client as follows:

      use OpenCloud\Rackspace;

      $client = new Rackspace(Rackspace::US_IDENTITY_ENDPOINT, array(
          'username' => '<YOUR RACKSPACE CLOUD ACCOUNT USERNAME>',
          'apiKey'   => '<YOUR RACKSPACE CLOUD ACCOUNT API KEY>'
      ));

### Orchestration service

All Orchestration operations are done via an orchestration service object. To instantiate this object, call the `orchestrationService` method on the `$client` object. This method takes two arguments:

Position | Description | Data type | Required? | Default value | Example value
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | Name of the service, as it appears in the service catalog | String | No | `null`; automatically determined when possible | `cloudOrchestration`

2

Cloud region

String

Yes

`DFW`

    $region = '<CLOUD REGION NAME>';
    $orchestrationService = $client->orchestrationService(null, $region);

Any stacks and resources created with this `$orchestrationService` instance will be stored in the cloud region specified by `$region`.

## Templates

An Orchestration template is a JSON or YAML document that describes how a set of resources should be assembled to produce a working deployment (known as a stack). The template specifies the resources to use, the attributes of these resources that are parameterized and the information that is sent to the user when a template is instantiated.

### Validate template

Before you use a template to create a stack, you might want to validate it.

#### Validate a template from a file

If your template is stored on your local computer as a JSON or YAML file, you can validate it as shown in the following example:

    use OpenCloud\Common\Exceptions\InvalidTemplateError;

    try {
        $orchestrationService->validateTemplate(array(
            'template' => file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/lamp.yaml')
        ));
    } catch (InvalidTemplateError $e) {
        // Use $e->getMessage() for explanation of why template is invalid
    }

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#### Validate Template from URL

If your template is stored as a JSON or YAML file in a remote location accessible via HTTP or HTTPS, you can validate it as shown in the following example:

    use OpenCloud\Common\Exceptions\InvalidTemplateError;

    try {
        $orchestrationService->validateTemplate(array(
            'templateUrl' => 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp.yaml'
        ));
    } catch (InvalidTemplateError $e) {
        // Use $e->getMessage() for explanation of why template is invalid
    }

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## Stacks

A stack is a running instance of a template. When a stack is created, the resources specified in the template are created.

### Preview stack

Before you create a stack from a template, you might want to see what that stack will look like. This is called previewing the stack.

This operation takes one parameter, an associative array, with the following keys:

Name | Description | Data type | Required? | Default value | Example value
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---

`name`

Name of the stack

String. Must start with an alphabetic character, and must contain only alphanumeric, `_`, `-` or `.` characters

Yes

`simple-lamp-setup`

`template` | Template contents | String. JSON or YAML | No, if `templateUrl` is specified | `null` | `heat_template_version: 2013-05-23\ndescription: LAMP server\n`
`templateUrl` | URL of the template file | String. HTTP or HTTPS URL | No, if `template` is specified | `null` | `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp.yaml`
`parameters` | Arguments to the template, based on the template’s parameters. For example, see the parameters in this template section | Associative array | No | `null` | `array('flavor_id' => 'general1-1')`

#### Preview a stack from a template file

If your template is stored on your local computer as a JSON or YAML file, you can use it to preview a stack as shown in the following example:

    $stack = $orchestrationService->previewStack(array(
        'name'         => 'simple-lamp-setup',
        'template'     => file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/lamp.yml'),
        'parameters'   => array(
            'server_hostname' => 'web01',
            'image'           => 'Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (PVHVM)'
        )
    ));
    /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/

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#### Preview a stack from a template URL

If your template is stored as a JSON or YAML file in a remote location accessible via HTTP or HTTPS, you can use it to preview a stack as shown in the following example:

    $stack = $orchestrationService->previewStack(array(
        'name'         => 'simple-lamp-setup',
        'templateUrl'  => 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp.yaml',
        'parameters'   => array(
            'server_hostname' => 'web01',
            'image'           => 'Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (PVHVM)'
        )
    ));
    /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/

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### Create stack

You can create a stack from a template.

This operation takes one parameter, an associative array, with the following keys:

Name | Description | Data type | Required? | Default value | Example value
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---

`name`

Name of the stack

String. Must start with an alphabetic character, and must contain only alphanumeric, `_`, `-` or `.` characters.

Yes

`simple-lamp-setup`

`template` | Template contents | String. JSON or YAML | No, if `templateUrl` is specified | `null` | `heat_template_version: 2013-05-23\ndescription: LAMP server\n`
`templateUrl` | URL of template file | String. HTTP or HTTPS URL | No, if `template` is specified | `null` | `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp.yaml`
`parameters` | Arguments to the template, based on the template’s parameters | Associative array | No | `null` | `array('server_hostname' => 'web01')`

`timeoutMins`

Duration, in minutes, after which stack creation should time out

Integer

Yes

5

#### Create a stack from a template file

If your template is stored on your local computer as a JSON or YAML file, you can use it to create a stack as shown in the following example:

    $stack = $orchestrationService->createStack(array(
        'name'         => 'simple-lamp-setup',
        'templateUrl'  => 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp.yaml',
        'parameters'   => array(
            'server_hostname' => 'web01',
            'image'           => 'Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (PVHVM)'
        ),
        'timeoutMins'  => 5
    ));
    /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/

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#### Create a stack from a template URL

If your template is stored as a JSON or YAML file in a remote location accessible via HTTP or HTTPS, you can use it to create a stack as shown in the following example:

    $stack = $orchestrationService->stack();
    $stack->create(array(
        'name'          => 'simple-lamp-setup',
        'templateUrl'   => 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp.yaml',
        'parameters'    => array(
            'server_hostname' => 'web01',
            'image'           => 'Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (PVHVM)'
        ),
        'timeoutMins'   => 5
    ));

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### List stacks

You can list all the stacks that you have created as shown in the following example:

    $stacks = $orchestrationService->listStacks();
    foreach ($stacks as $stack) {
        /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/
    }

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### Get stack

You can retrieve a specific stack using its name, as shown in the following example:

    $stack = $orchestrationService->getStack('simple-lamp-setup');
    /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/

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### Get stack template

You can retrieve the template used to create a stack. Note that a JSON string is returned, regardless of whether a JSON or YAML template was used to create the stack.

    $stackTemplate = $stack->getTemplate();
    /** @var $stackTemplate string **/

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### Update stack

You can update a running stack.

This operation takes one parameter, an associative array, with the following keys:

Name | Description | Data type | Required? | Default value | Example value
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
`template` | Template contents | String. JSON or YAML | No, if `templateUrl` is specified | `null` | `heat_template_version: 2013-05-23\ndescription: LAMP server\n`
`templateUrl` | URL of template file | String. HTTP or HTTPS URL | No, if `template` is specified | `null` | `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp-updated.yaml`
`parameters` | Arguments to the template, based on the template’s parameters | Associative array | No | `null` | `array('flavor_id' => 'general1-1')`

`timeoutMins`

Duration, in minutes, after which stack update should time out

Integer

Yes

5

#### Update a stack from a template file

If your template is stored on your local computer as a JSON or YAML file, you can use it to update a stack as shown in the following example:

    $stack->update(array(
        'template'      => file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/lamp-updated.yml'),
        'parameters'    => array(
            'server_hostname' => 'web01',
            'image'           => 'Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (PVHVM)'
        ),
        'timeoutMins'   => 5
    ));
    /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/

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#### Update Stack from Template URL

If your template is stored as a JSON or YAML file in a remote location accessible via HTTP or HTTPS, you can use it to update a stack as shown in the following example:

    $stack->update(array(
        'templateUrl'   => 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/lamp/master/lamp-updated.yaml',
        'parameters'    => array(
            'server_hostname' => 'web01',
            'image'           => 'Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (PVHVM)'
        ),
        'timeoutMins'   => 5
    ));
    /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/

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### Delete stack

If you no longer need a stack and all its resources, you can delete the stack and the resources as shown in the following example:

    $stack->delete();

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### Abandon Stack

If you want to delete a stack but preserve all its resources, you can abandon the stack as shown in the following example:

    $abandonStackData = $stack->abandon();
    /** @var $abandonStackData string **/

    file_put_contents(__DIR__ . '/sample_adopt_stack_data.json', $abandonStackData);

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Note that this operation returns data about the abandoned stack as a string. You can use this data to recreate the stack by using the adopt stack operation.

### Adopt stack

If you have data from an abandoned stack, you can re-create the stack as shown in the following example:

    $stack = $orchestrationService->adoptStack(array(
        'name'           => 'simple-lamp-setup',
        'template'       => file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/lamp.yml'),
        'adoptStackData' => $abandonStackData,
        'timeoutMins'    => 5
    ));
    /** @var $stack OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Stack **/

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## Stack resources

A stack is made up of zero or more resources such as databases, load balancers, and servers, and the software installed on servers.

### List stack resources

You can list all the resources for a stack as shown in the following example:

    $resources = $stack->listResources();
    foreach ($resources as $resource) {
        /** @var $resource OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Resource **/
    }

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### Get stack resource

You can retrieve a specific resource in a stack bt using that resource’s name, as shown in the following example:

    $resource = $stack->getResource('load-balancer');
    /** @var $resource OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Resource **/

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### Get stack resource metadata

You can retrieve the metadata for a specific resource in a stack as shown in the following example:

    $resourceMetadata = $resource->getMetadata();
    /** @var $resourceMetadata \stdClass **/

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## Stack resource events

Operations on resources within a stack (such as the creation of a resource) produce events.

### List stack events

You can list all of the events for all of the resources in a stack as shown in the following example:

    $stackEvents = $stack->listEvents();
    foreach ($stackEvents as $stackEvent) {
        /** @var $stackEvent OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Event **/
    }

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### List stack resource events

You can list all of the events for a specific resource in a stack as shown in the following example:

    $resourceEvents = $resource->listEvents();
    foreach ($resourceEvents as $resourceEvent) {
        /** @var $resourceEvent OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Event **/
    }

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### Get stack resource event

You can retrieve a specific event for a specific resource in a stack, by using the resource event’s ID, as shown in the following example:

    $resourceEvent = $resource->getEvent('c1342a0a-59e6-4413-9af5-07c9cae7d729');
    /** @var $resourceEvent OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\Event **/

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## Resource types

When you define a template, you must use resource types supported by your cloud.

### List resource types

You can list all supported resource types as shown in the following example:

    $resourceTypes = $orchestrationService->listResourceTypes();
    foreach ($resourceTypes as $resourceType) {
        /** @var $resourceType OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\ResourceType **/
    }

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### Get resource type

You can retrieve a specific resource type’s schema as shown in the following example:

    $resourceType = $orchestrationService->getResourceType('OS::Nova::Server');
    /** @var $resourceType OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\ResourceType **/

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### Get resource type template

You can retrieve a specific resource type’s representation as it would appear in a template, as shown in the following example:

    $resourceTypeTemplate = $resourceType->getTemplate();
    /** @var $resourceTypeTemplate string **/

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## Build info

### Get build info

You can retrieve information about the current Orchestration service build as shown in the following example:

    $buildInfo = $orchestrationService->getBuildInfo();
    /** @var $resourceType OpenCloud\Orchestration\Resource\BuildInfo **/

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