Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Get the Code
  • Install Vagrant
    • Install VirtualBox and Vagrant
      • MacOS
      • Linux (Ubuntu)
• Using mini-mon
  • Starting mini-mon
  • Mini-mon access information
    • Internal Endpoints
  • Updating
  • Improving Provisioning Speed
  • Ansible Development
  • Running behind a Web Proxy
• Alternate Vagrant Configurations

Installs a mini monitoring environment based on Vagrant. Intended for development of the monitoring infrastructure.

Installation

Get the Code

git clone https://github.com/stackforge/monasca-vagrant

Install Vagrant

Install VirtualBox and Vagrant

Note: Vagrant version 1.5.0 or higher is required.

MacOS

The following steps assume you have Homebrew installed. Otherwise, install VirtualBox and Vagrant and Ansible as suggested on their websites.

brew tap phinze/cask
brew install brew-cask
brew cask install virtualbox 
brew cask install vagrant
brew install ansible
ansible-galaxy install -r ansible_roles -p ./roles

Linux (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install virtualbox
#Download and install latest vagrant from http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
sudo pip install ansible
ansible-galaxy install -r ansible_roles -p ./roles

Using mini-mon

Starting mini-mon

• After installing to start just run vagrant up. The first run will download required vagrant boxes.
• Run vagrant help for more info on standard vagrant commands.

Smoke test

A smoke test exists in the test directory. From within the mini-mon vm this directory is exposed to /vagrant/tests and so /vagrant/tests/smoke.py can be run when in a mini-mon terminal.

Alternatively a very simple playbook is available for running the test, ansible-playbook ./smoke.yml

Mini-mon access information

• Your host OS home dir is synced to /vagrant_home on the VM.
• The root dir of the monasca-vagrant repo on your host OS is synced to /vagrant on the VM.
• The main VM will have an IP of 192.168.10.4 that can be access from other services running on the host.
• An additional VM running DevStack will be created at 192.168.10.5
• Run vagrant ssh <host> to log in, where <host> is either mini-mon or devstack

Internal Endpoints

• You can access UI by navigating to http://192.168.10.5 and logging in as mini-mon with password
• Influxdb is available at http://192.168.10.4:8083 with root/root as user/password
• The Monasca-api is available at http://192.168.10.4:8080
• The keystone credentials used are mini-mon/password in the mini-mon project. The keystone services in 192.168.10.5 on standard ports.

Updating

When someone updates the config, this process should allow you to bring up an updated VM, though not every step is needed at all times.

• git pull
• ansible-galaxy install -r ansible_roles -p ./roles -f
• vagrant box update Only needed rarely
• vagrant destroy <vm> Where <vm> is the name of the VM being updated, for example 'mini-mon'
• vagrant up

Improving Provisioning Speed

The slowest part of the provisioning process is the downloading of packages. The Vagrant plugin vagrant-cachier available at https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-cachier should help by caching repeated dependencies. To use with Vagrant simply install the plugin.

sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier

Ansible Development

To edit the Ansible roles I suggest downloading the full git source of the role and putting it in your ansible path. Then though you can rerun vagrant provision to test your changes, often it is easier to run ansible directly. For this to work smoothly add these vagrant specific settings to your local ansible configuration (~/.ansible.cfg):

[defaults]
hostfile = .vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory
private_key_file = ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
remote_user = vagrant

Running behind a Web Proxy

If you are behind a proxy you can install the vagrant-proxyconf pluging to have Vagrant honor standard proxy-related environment variables and set the VM to use them also.

vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf

Alternate Vagrant Configurations

To run any of these alternate configs, simply run the Vagrant commands from within the subdir.

• ds-build subdir - This is used for building a new devstack server image. It does not typically need to be run.

Previously in the split directory an alternative setup was available with each service split into different vms and using Vertica rather than influxdb. This was removed simply because it was not being actively maintained as changes occurred. It is still possible to split up the services and to use Vertica, these are done in test environments and production deployments, however is beyond the scope of this development environment. Additionaly other alternative setups including running mini-mon in HP Public Cloud and scripts for putting it on baremetal are also no longer supported.