Ranger
- Ranger is an OpenStack Resource Management tool capable of managing different types of clouds into one platform. Here are the following of what it provides:
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- Multi-region common resource management.
- Light weight, stateless and interface with external self-service portals.
- Runs on DCP.
- Resource agents will run on LCP to orchestrate and keep resources in sync from a centralized repository.
Devstack Installation
- You can include ranger repository in local.conf when running devstack.
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enable_plugin ranger git://git.openstack.org/openstack/ranger
- Make sure MYSQL_PASSWORD is included for creating and accessing the database.
Before Setting Up
Make sure ranger-agent is running before installing and running ranger since that is required for connecting with Openstack.
Generate ranger.conf file
$tox -e genconfig
A blank configuration file will be generated at etc/ranger.conf
Installation
- 1. Clone the repo and go to the tools directory.
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$ git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/ranger $ cd ranger/tools
- To make changes to the port numbers and other configurations, please go to base_config.py under the orm folder before continuing to the next steps.
- Run ./ranger_create_db.sh to create the database.
- Run ./setup_apache.sh to create conf files for each of the services to apache.
- Run stack_orm.sh to run ranger.
- If stack_orm.sh is not running properly, please do the following:
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- Go to the root of ranger.
- sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
- sudo python setup.py develop 2>&1 | tee $root_dir/tools/install.log
Running Ranger Services
- To run each of the services, type in these commands in order to run each of the services.
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- Audit: orm-audit
- Uuidgen: orm-uuidgen
- RDS (Resource Distributor Service): orm-rds
- RMS (Resource Management Service): orm-rms
- FMS (Flavor Management Service): orm-fms
- CMS (Customer Management Service): orm-cms
- IMS (Image Management Service): orm-ims
For RMS, FMS, CMS, and IMS to be running, Audit, Uuidgen, and RDS must also be running properly as well in order to use them.