tuskar/INSTALL.rst

Installation Guide

Tuskar source code should be pulled directly from git:

git clone https://github.com/stackforge/tuskar.git

Dependencies

Setting up a local environment for development can be done with tox:

# install prerequisites
* Ubuntu/Debian:
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev swig libssl-dev python-pip libmysqlclient-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
* Fedora/RHEL:
$ sudo yum install python-devel swig openssl-devel python-pip mysql-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel
# Note that as of Fedora 19, you need to use the community
  upstream for mysql, called mariadb-devel

$ sudo pip install virtualenv setuptools-git flake8 tox

$ cd <your_src_dir>/tuskar
# create virtualenv
$ tox -e py27

Note: if pip install fails due to an outdated setuptools, you can try to update it first:

$ sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools

Configuration

Copy the sample configuration file:

$ cp etc/tuskar/tuskar.conf.sample etc/tuskar/tuskar.conf

Edit the config file and uncomment the heat_keystone section at the bottom:

[heat_keystone]

username = heat
password = heat
tenant_name = admin
auth_url = http://localhost:35357/v2.0
insecure = True

Note: replace these values with credentials for our undercloud OpenStack. If you're using Devstack, the username and password are printed out when stack.sh finishes its job.

We need to initialise the database schema:

# activate the virtualenv
$ source .tox/py27/bin/activate

# if you delete tuskar.sqlite this will force creation of tables again - e.g.
# if you added a new resource table definitions etc in an existing migration
# file
$ tuskar-dbsync --config-file etc/tuskar/tuskar.conf

You can verify this was successful (in addition to seeing no error output) with:

$ sqlite3 tuskar.sqlite .schema

Then, launch the app and try curl to see if it works:

$ tuskar-api --config-file etc/tuskar/tuskar.conf
$ curl -v -X GET -H 'Accept: application/json' http://0.0.0.0:6385/v1/resource_classes/ | python -mjson.tool

Assuming this is your first time running with a new database, you should simply get '[]' back from curl above. Currently the api supports only json return type, so we request that in the example call.

Next, you can run a script to populate the DB with some sample data:

$ python tools/sample_data.py

This will create 2 Resource Classes and three Racks. You need to have the Tuskar API server running. You can see more examples of using the API at our cURL Commands page.

Running Tuskar API

Whenever you want to run the API again, just switch to the virtualenv and run tuskar-api command:

$ source .tox/py27/bin/activate
$ tuskar-api --config-file etc/tuskar/tuskar.conf

Contributing

For additional developer information, take a look at CONTRIBUTING.rst and the Tuskar website.