Sun Grid Engine

Install and Configure Sun Grid Engine on Ubuntu 12.04 Cluster

Ubunut 12.04 LTS Vagrant box

Check that you can get Ubuntu Precise 64 from

$ vagrant init ubuntu/precise64; vagrant up --provider virtualbox

Install Ansible

Ubuntu LTS 12.04

 $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
 $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install ansible

Other Linux Distributions

to install on another Linux Distribution check out Ansible Docs

Hosts File

Here is a sample of hosts file

[servers]
master  ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.10 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant  ansible_ssh_pass=vagrant
slave1  ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.11 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant  ansible_ssh_pass=vagrant
slave2  ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.12 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant  ansible_ssh_pass=vagrant

[masters]
master  ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.10 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant  ansible_ssh_pass=vagrant

[slaves]
slave1  ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.11 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant  ansible_ssh_pass=vagrant
slave2  ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.12 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant  ansible_ssh_pass=vagrant

Configure Passwordless SSH

This section shows how to make a passwordless SSH among cluster's nodes.

 $ ssh-keygen -t rsa
 $ cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa* roles/common/files/

Setup SGE Cluster

Finally, setup your Sun Grid Engine Cluster using Ansible

$ ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml -vvvv