Building Source on CentOS

Building stacki on a vanilla CentOS machine.

Requirements

1. Git
2. The following yum groups are required
   • Additional Development
   • Compatibility libraries
   • Development tools
   • Server Platform Development
   • Web Server

Building

Checkout the git repository

Checkout the Stacki repository from github.com. It is about 1.6 GB in size. To build the repo, youll need another 12 GB of usable space.

# mkdir /export/src
# cd /export/src
# git clone git@github.com:StackIQ/stacki.git

Bootstrap

1. Run Bootstrap

   # cd /export/src/stacki
   # make bootstrap
   

2. Remove the src/order-stacki.mk file

   # rm src/order-stacki.mk
   

3. Source /etc/profile.d/stack-build.sh file

   # source /etc/profile.d/stack-build.sh
   

4. Make RPMS for all packages

   # make -C src rpm 
   

   Note: This step will take a very long time. Some packages may fail to build. This is OK, since we're still in the bootstrap stage.

5. The above command will create a build directory and place all the built RPMS in it. The next step is to create a yum-compatible repository.

   # createrepo build-stacki-master/RPMS
   

6. Write /etc/yum.repos.d/buildstacki.repo file with the following content.

   [buildstacki]
   name=Build Stacki
   baseurl=file:///export/src/stacki/build-stacki-master/RPMS/
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=0
   

7. Refresh yum information

   # yum clean all
   # yum makecache all
   

8. Install the stack-wizard package. This will allow us to create a site.attrs file that may then be used to create the frontend installation file

   # yum install -y stack-wizard foundation-redhat foundation-py-ipaddress
   

9. Create /tmp/site.attrs file by running the wizard

   # boss_config_snack.py --no-net-reconfig
   

   Note: For information on how to configure your stacki installation, refer to Installation Wizard

10. Create the installation script

    # stack list node xml server basedir=. attrs=/tmp/site.attrs | \
      stack list host profile chapter=bash profile=shell > /tmp/frontend.sh
    

11. Run /tmp/frontend.sh

    # sh -x /tmp/frontend.sh 2>&1 | tee /tmp/frontend-install.log
    

12. At this point, the frontend should have the Stacki database running, and the frontend should be added to the database. Reboot the machine

    # reboot
    

Add OS pallets

1. Download the CentOS DVDs. Note:

   1. For CentOS 7, download the CentOS-7 everything ISO
   2. For CentOS 6, download the CentOS-6 Bin DVD1 and DVD2 ISO files

2. Add the ISO to the machine

   # stack add pallet CentOS-*.iso
   # stack enable pallet CentOS
   

Rebuild the Stacki Pallet

# cd /export/src/stacki
# make roll