Manual Install¶
This guide is intended to quickly march you through the steps of installing and running stackd.io and its dependencies. We’re not intending to be complete or provide you with everything needed for a production-ready install, we may make some assumptions you don’t agree with, and there may be things we missed. If you feel anything is out of the ordinary, a bit confusing, or just plain missing, please contact us.
1. A database¶
stackd.io needs a relational database to store internal information. Since it’s built on Django, it inherently supports many different database servers. Mysql will do fine, but if you’d prefer something else, it is beyond the scope of this guide to install it. For more information on Django’s database support, see: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/databases/
The OS-specific prep of your choice (below) will walk you through installing mysql.
2. OS-specific preparation¶
Warning
You must follow the steps in one of the following prep guides for the OS you’re installing stackd.io in.
Follow one of the individual guides below to prepare your particular environment for stackd.io. Once you finish, come back here and continue on.
3. Create a virtualenv¶
Let’s create a virtualenv to install stackd.io into:
mkvirtualenv stackdio
The virtualenv should automatically activate when you create it. If you
exit your current shell and come back later to work on stackdio and find
things not working as expected you probably need to activate the
virtualenv again. To do this, virtualenvwrapper gives you the workon
command:
workon stackdio
4. Install bower¶
In your terminal, run the following command to install bower:
Note
You must have previously installed npm/node from the OS specific preparation
sudo npm install -g bower
5. Install stackd.io¶
Note
Double-check that your virtualenv is activated or else this will probably complain that you don’t have permissions to install (because it’s trying to install into the global python site-packages directory which we don’t want!)
There’s two options for installing here. We recommend pulling the latest version from pypi with pip, like this:
workon stackdio # Activate the virtualenv
pip install stackdio-server[production,mysql]
6. Configuration¶
After the install, you’ll have a stackdio
command available to
interact with much of the platform. First off, we need to configure
stackd.io a bit. The stackdio init
command will prompt you for
several pieces of information. If you followed all steps above verbatim,
then all defaults may be accepted, but if you deviated from the path you
will need to provide the following information:
- an existing user on the system that will run everything (it will
default to the
stackdio
user) - an existing location where stackd.io can store its data (the default
is
$HOME/.stackdio/storage
and will be created for you if permissions allow) - a database DSN that points to a running database you have access to
(if you’re using the MySQL install from above, the default
mysql://stackdio:password@localhost:3306/stackdio
is appropriate)
stackdio init
Now, let’s populate are database with a schema:
stackdio manage.py migrate
7. stackd.io users¶
LDAP¶
stackd.io can easily integrate with an LDAP server. See our LDAP Guide for more information on configuring stackd.io to work with LDAP. If you choose to go the LDAP route, you can skip this entire section because users who successfully authenticate and are members of the right groups via LDAP will automatically be created in stackd.io.
Non-LDAP admin user¶
Admin users in stackd.io have less restriction to various pieces of the platform. For example, only admin users are allowed to create and modify cloud providers and profiles that other users can use to spin up their stacks.
Note
You will need at least one admin user to configure some key areas of the system.
stackdio manage.py createsuperuser
# and follow prompts...
Non-LDAP regular users¶
When not using LDAP, the easiest way to create new non-admin users is to use the built-in Django admin interface. First we need the server to be up and running so keep following the steps below and we’ll come back to adding users later.
8. Web server configuration¶
For this guide, we’ll use the stackdio
command to generate the
necessary configuration for Nginx to serve our static content as well as
proxying the Python app through gunicorn.
To configure Nginx for CentOS:
# CENTOS
# add execute permissions to the user's home directory for static content to serve correctly
chmod +x ~/
stackdio config nginx | sudo tee /etc/nginx/conf.d/stackdio.conf > /dev/null
# rename the default server configuration
sudo mv /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf.bak
To configure Nginx for Ubuntu:
# UBUNTU ONLY
stackdio config nginx | sudo tee /etc/nginx/sites-available/stackdio > /dev/null
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/stackdio /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
# remove the default configuration symlink
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
After this, generate the static content we’ll need to serve:
stackdio manage.py collectstatic --noinput
and finally, start Nginx:
sudo service nginx restart
9. RabbitMQ, celery, and salt¶
Start the rabbitmq server:
sudo service rabbitmq-server start
For celery and salt-master, we’ll be using supervisord. The required packages should already be installed, so we’ll just need to configure supervisor and start the services.
# generate supervisord configuration that controls gunicorn, celery, and salt-master and store it in the .stackdio directory.
stackdio config supervisord > ~/.stackdio/supervisord.conf
# launch supervisord and start the services
supervisord -c ~/.stackdio/supervisord.conf
supervisorctl -c ~/.stackdio/supervisord.conf start all
10. Try it out!¶
At this point, you should have everything configured and running, so
fire up a web browser and point it to your hostname and you should see
the stackd.io login page. If you’re using LDAP, try logging in with a
user that is a member of the stackdio-admin
and stackdio-user
groups, or login with the admin user you created earlier.
11. Creating additional users¶
Note
If you’re using LDAP, you can skip this step.
The superuser we created earlier will give us admin access to stackd.io, however, you probably want at least one non-superuser. Point your browser to http://hostname:8000/__private/admin and use the username and password for the super user you created earlier. You should be presented with the Django admin interface. To create additional users, follow the steps below.
- click Users
- click Add user in the top right of the page
- set the username and password of the user and click save
- optionally provide first name, last name, and email address of the user and click save
The newly created users will now have access to stackd.io. Test this by logging out and signing in with one of the non-admin users.