Since Walmarts “OneOps” platform has been open sourced and placed on github for the world to use I have added yet another project onto my TODO list.<\/p>\n
From a quick read OneOps is designed to deploy VMs from a single management infrastrcture onto any cloud platform; Azure, Rackspace, Amazon or even a local OpenStack system… basically being able to redeploy to whatever is cheapest at the time.<\/p>\n
It is unlikely to be usable by me unless I install it on bare metal as the minimum hardware requirements seem to be 16Gb of memory… but for testing the installation and configuration steps I have fired up a 4Gb VM to work out how to get the software installed, when I have that tested\/documented I will use bare metal.<\/p>\n
The first step for me was obviously to install the documentation. That is very briefly covered in the readme at the main documentation project at https:\/\/github.com\/oneops\/oneops.github.io<\/a>. Did I mention very briefly.<\/p>\n Fortunately the Fedora documentation at https:\/\/developer.fedoraproject.org\/tech\/languages\/ruby\/gems-installation.html<\/a> covered most of the steps needed to install ruby\/gems.<\/p>\n The steps here are how to install the documentation, based on a merging of the references above. The commands need to be run as root of course.<\/p>\n And then… you should be able to view the documentation using a local browser at http:\/\/127.0.0.1:4000\/<\/p>\n And there is my first obvious problem<\/b>. Netstat does indeed show a service listening on 127.0.0.1 port 4000… the key problem being it is listening only on 127.0.0.1 not on 0.0.0.0… the VM is a “server” with no desktop environment and it has no web browsers and because it is bound to localhost using a browser from another machine cannot read the doco !.<\/p>\n I installed my favourite text browser lynx onto the VM and confirmed the doco is being served correctly, but of course it is hard to follow the doc in a text browser.<\/p>\n Lots of grep on 127.0.0.1 and localhost failed to find where it was set.<\/p>\n So Day 2 to Day N will be trying to find where that is set so the documentation is network available via a gui browser rather than only available to localhost. If I cannot find that by the weekend I will install apache and “proxy” to the port, but I am trying to minimise software installs to just what is required.<\/p>\n So watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since Walmarts “OneOps” platform has been open sourced and placed on github for the world to use I have added yet another project onto my TODO list. From a quick read OneOps is designed to deploy VMs from a single … Continue reading \r\ndnf install ruby-devel\r\ndnf group install \"C Development Tools and Libraries\"\r\ndnf install redhat-rpm-config patch git\r\ngem install jekyll\r\ngem install redcarpet\r\nuseradd oneops\r\nsu - oneops\r\ngit clone https:\/\/github.com\/oneops\/oneops.github.io.git\r\ncd oneops.githup.io\r\njekyll serve --no-watch\r\n<\/pre>\n