Kepler Roll

Contents

• Introduction
  • Downloads
• Building a roll
• Adding a roll
• Adding a roll
  • Adding a roll to a new server
  • Adding a roll to a live frontend
• Where installed roll components are

Introduction

This roll installs Kepler and its prerequisite (java JRE)

Downloads

1. Download Kepler distribution v.2.5 and put resulting file Kepler-2.5-linux.tar.gz in src/kepler/ Check md5sum

   # md5sum src/kepler/Kepler-2.5-linux.tar.gz
   ae8cc949b5c587ddf10d607842543cf0  src/kepler/Kepler-2.5-linux.tar.gz

2. This step is for the information only, The jre file is already present in the roll src.

   On Oracle JRE download page

   accept license, download jre-8u121-linux-x64.rpm distro.

Building a roll

Checkout roll distribution from git repo:

# git clone https://github.com/nbcrrolls/kepler
# cd kepler

To build a roll

# make roll

The resulting ISO file kepler-6.2-0.x86_64.disk1.iso is the roll that can be added to the frontend.

Adding a roll

Adding a roll

The roll (ISO file) can be added (1) during the initial installation of the cluster (frontend) or (2) to the existing frontend.

Adding a roll to a new server

1. Add roll ISO to your existing frontend that is configured to be a central server. This procesdure is documented in the section Frontend Central Server of Rocks Users Guide.
2. During the frontend install choose the kepler roll from the list of available rolls when you see Select Your Rolls screen.

Adding a roll to a live frontend

A roll can be added to the existing frontend.

Execute all commands from top level kepler/

# rocks add roll  kepler-6.2-0.x86_64.disk1.iso
# rocks enable roll kepler
# (cd /export/rocks/install; rocks create distro)
# yum clean all
# rocks run roll kepler > add-roll.sh
# bash add-roll.sh  > add-roll.out 2>&1

Where installed roll components are

This roll will install the follwing RPMS that provide java v.8 (build 1.8.0_121)

java-1.8.0-openjdk
java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless
jre1.8.0_121

Kepler is installeed in /opt/kepler