Developer guide on CloudBolt Documentation

Shared management

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When adopting CMP, operations may keep working directly in vCenter or a cloud console while users order through CMP.

Two management models

CloudBolt exclusive

Operations teams have little or no access to change the services CMP provisions: every change goes through CMP. Only the changes a blueprint offers are possible; any configuration a team needs must be available as a resource action or a plugin on the blueprint’s Build tab. This suits production and tightly change-managed environments.

Extensibility

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This page is a map of the extension points, ordered by effort: import content someone has already written, assemble blueprints, attach actions, and then extend the interface.

Content Library

The Content Library is CloudBolt’s catalog of ready-made content you can download into your instance, including blueprints, actions, rules, recurring jobs, and UI extensions. Much of it is a complete solution you can use as-is, and the rest serves as a worked example. Start here before building anything from scratch.

Shell Plus

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Shell Plus is a Django management command, so it loads CMP’s models and settings before handing you an IPython prompt. Run a line of code and see the result immediately. Use it to find out what an object holds and work out the queries a plugin will make.

Shell Plus has read-write access to the CMP database and, through it, your cloud infrastructure. Talk to CloudBolt Support before using it in production.

Shared modules

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A shared module is a Python file that CMP stores on the appliance and makes available to all plugins, and to other shared modules. Shared modules live at Admin > Shared Modules, and only CloudBolt admins can manage them. Typical candidates are generated parameter options reused across blueprints and a class that handles connecting to an external API.

Create a shared module

Go to Admin > Shared Modules.
Select Add > Create New. The same menu offers Create from Repository, which pulls the module from a source code repository, and Upload Shared Module for an exported one.

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Provide a Label and Module Name. The module name becomes the Python file name and the name you import, so use a valid Python identifier such as generated_options.
Select Upload a script file now, or Fetch from URL and provide a file or URL, or select Enter code later.
Select Save.

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