Resources

Resources provide the basis for the configuration of PoolParty.

There are built-in resources that PoolParty gives you for free to use in your clouds.rb or your plugins. These include:

	class_package
	conditional
	cron
	custom_service
	directory
	exec
	file
	gem_package
	host
	mount
	package
	remote_file
	sshkey
	symlink
	variable
	deploydirectory
	git
	line
	rsyncmirror
	svn
        plugin

These can all be called from within your plugins or your clouds.rb by preceding them with either has_ or does_not_have_ to indicate whether your cloud should have or not have their resources.

For instance

	has_package(:name => "apache2")

indicates that we want the package apache2 installed on our cloud.

Resources are easy to create.

Say you have a resource that you want to create, you can make one by subclassing PoolParty::Resources::Resource like so

	module PoolParty
	 module Resources
	  class MyCoolResource < Resource
	   default_options({})
	  end
	 end
	end

Then you can call your resource like so in your clouds.rb file:

	has_my_cool_resource(:name => "funky funky")

You can also create virtual resources, the preferred method of creating your own resource. To create a virtual resource, such as a virtualhost for the apache2 plugin, or a database for the mysql plugin, simply call:

	virtual_resource(:virtual_resource_name) do
	end

These can then be called from plugins or clouds.rb the same way with

	has_virtual_resource_name(:name => "cool virtual resource")