Compass-Web
Compass-Web is a web-based UI consuming the Restful API service provided by Compass to pragmatically deploy an OpenStack system on to a set of raw physical resources. It is used for demo purpose. It can be used as a base to develop a UI for more sophisticated use cases.
Compass-Web is based on JavaScriptMVC framework. It has five modules: Servers, Security, Networking, Host Configuration and Deployment.
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Servers Module. Discover available servers with switch information and add a subset of the servers to a cluster.
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Security Module. Specify credentials for the OpenStack system.
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Networking Module. Specify network addresses needed to facilitate the OpenStack cluster you want to use for your OpenStack servers.
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Host Configuration Module Configure host names of the servers in the cluster.
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Deployment Module Deploy OpenStack onto the servers with the realtime progressbars.
Framework
JavaScriptMVC v3.2.4 JavaScriptMVC is a MIT licensed, client-side, JavaScript framework that builds maintainable, error-free, lightweight applications as quick as possible.
Third-party Libraries
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jQueryUI jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. It is included for widgets such as accordion, tabs, dialog and progressbar.
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d3 D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. It is included for the graph-based progress bars in Deployment module to have a collapsible tree layout for switches and servers.
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DataTables DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library to add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table. It is included to have advanced interaction controls to HTML table in Servers and Deployment modules.