Uploading a Blueprint

Before you can deploy a blueprint, you must upload the blueprint to the Cloudify Manager. You can upload a blueprint using the CLI. Premium users can also upload using the Cloudiy Web Interface.

Either use a blueprint that you have written or download an example blueprint to upload.

Uploading a Blueprint using the Cloudify Web Interface

If you are a Premium version user, you can upload a pre-packaged blueprint archive using the Cloudify Web Interfacein tar, tar.gz, tar.bz, or zip formats.

1. On the Blueprints widget, click Upload.
   
2. In the Upload blueprint dialog, either enter the URL of the blueprint archive, or select the file from the filesystem.
3. Enter a unique name for the blueprint.   For example, you can upload one instance of the blueprint as blueprint-template and another instance as a blueprint-with-input.
4. (Optional) Select the YAML filename of the blueprint. This field refers to the .yaml file that contains the application topology. If left blank, the default blueprint.yaml file is used. If there is no .yaml blueprint file, an error is shown here.
5. Click Upload to upload the upload the blueprint package.

Uploading a Blueprint using the Command Line

From the Cloudify command-line interface, you can upload your blueprint to Cloudify Manager. You must specify the path to a blueprint file.

The syntax of the upload command is:

  
$ cfy blueprints upload -b BLUEPRINT_ID -p BLUEPRINT_FILE_LOCATION
  

For example, to upload the cloudify-nodecellar-example from GitHub:

1. Download the cloudify-nodecellar-example as a ZIP file.
2. Copy the ZIP file to your Cloudify Manager.
3. Extract the ZIP file to a directory.
4. In the CLI of your Cloudify Manager, change directory to the cloudify-nodecellar-example directory.
5. Enter the command for your IaaS:

 
  cfy blueprints upload -b nodecellar -p openstack-blueprint.yaml
    

 
  cfy blueprints upload -b nodecellar -p softlayer-blueprint.yaml
    

 
  cfy blueprints upload -b nodecellar -p aws-ec2-blueprint.yaml
    

 
  cfy blueprints upload -b nodecellar -p vcloud-blueprint.yaml
    

The -b flag assigns a unique name to the blueprint on Cloudify Manager. You can navigate to the Cloudify Manager URL and see the nodecellar blueprint in your list of local blueprints.

Click the blueprint to view its topology. A topology consists of elements called nodes. The nodecellar example, includes these nodes:

• Two VM’s (one for MongoDB and one for Node.js)
• A Node.js server
• A MongoDB database
• A Node.js application called nodecellar (A sample Node.js application)

What’s Next

You can now deploy your blueprint.