How to automate an advance zone deployment

[KuasarCloud]

Hi,
I created a all-in-one ACS deploy using Ansible and would like also to automate an advanced zone deployment and I was thinking in options

• Using CloudMonkey but at some point I need to register a access/secret key which is manual,
• Another alternative I found on the code tools/marvin a way to automate it but not so sure if it going to work without any credentials
• Deploy one manually and backup the database and restore the sql

is there another option currently?

BR

[weizhouapache]

Using CloudMonkey but at some point I need to register a access/secret key which is manual,

if you use the default credential (admin/password), you can set it in .cmk/config file.
in this case, api key/secret key is not required.

Another alternative I found on the code tools/marvin a way to automate it but not so sure if it going to work without any credentials

yes, it should work on the management server itself.
it is used in the simulutor ci. you can refer to

cloudstack/.github/workflows/ci.yml

Lines 285 to 294 in 8a2c0f3

	- name: Start CloudStack Management Server with Simulator
	run: |
	export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx4096m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=800m -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom -javaagent:jacoco/lib/jacocoagent.jar=address=*,port=36320,output=tcpserver --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports=java.base/sun.security.x509=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/jdk.internal.reflect=ALL-UNNAMED"
	echo -e "\nStarting simulator"
	set +e
	mvn -Dsimulator -Dorg.eclipse.jetty.annotations.maxWait=120 -pl :cloud-client-ui jetty:run 2>&1 > /tmp/jetty-log || true &
	while ! nc -vzw 5 localhost 8096 2>&1 > /dev/null; do grep Exception /tmp/jetty-log; sleep 10; done
	set -e
	echo -e "\nStarting Advanced Zone DataCenter deployment"
	python3 tools/marvin/marvin/deployDataCenter.py -i setup/dev/advdualzone.cfg 2>&1 || true

Deploy one manually and backup the database and restore the sql

this is also ok for testing , especially if you want to test the cloudstack upgrade.

[KuasarCloud]

Thanks Wei, I will take a look!