Running an amazon install by following the Digital Rebar Quick Start portion of the documentation.

Used AWS Path on a VM running Ubuntu.

TODO:

• More detailed instructions on how to set up the amazon server via aws.
• Connection info is wrong. Used a different command:
  ssh -i "install-tests.pem" ubuntu@[public DNS]
  This successfully connected me to the server. Right clicking on the instance opens a bar with Connect option. This has full instructions

Install notes:

• Created AWS m4.large Ubuntu instance. Copied and saved key using gedit to my home folder. Used default security group for ports.
• Connected to server.
• Saved External IP of server and installed git using full command on the page.
• Cloned deploy repo from github and ran ./run-in-system.sh --help.
• Ran ./run-in-system.sh --deploy-admin=local --access=HOST --wl-docker-swarm --admin-ip=$IPA. This gave the following failure but continued on:

TASK [Install Prereqs [SLOW]] **************************************************
fatal: [52.37.196.237]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "The conditional check 'ansible_os_family == \"Debian\" and ansible_lsb.major_release == \"14\"' failed. The error was: cannot import name _unicode\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/home/ubuntu/digitalrebar/deploy/tasks/base.yml': line 14, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n when: ansible_os_family == \"Debian\" and ansible_lsb.major_release == \"15\"\n  - include: base-ubuntu1404.yml\n   ^ here\n"}

• Next, I reran the install with sudo: sudo ./run-in-system.sh --deploy-admin=local --access=HOST --wl-docker-swarm --admin-ip=$IPA. This failed in four places back to back, but install continued on:

TASK [Stop ntp] ****************************************************************
fatal: [52.37.196.237]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "no service or tool found for: ntp"}
...ignoring

TASK [Stop ntpd] ***************************************************************
fatal: [52.37.196.237]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "no service or tool found for: ntpd"}
...ignoring

TASK [Stop chronyd] ************************************************************
fatal: [52.37.196.237]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "no service or tool found for: chronyd"}
...ignoring

TASK [Stop dnsmasq] ************************************************************
fatal: [52.37.196.237]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["killall", "dnsmasq"], "delta": "0:00:00.004558", "end": "2016-08-02 19:19:59.027864", "failed": true, "rc": 1, "start": "2016-08-02 19:19:59.023306", "stderr": "dnsmasq: no process found", "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": [], "warnings": []}
...ignoring

• The took a very long time with TASK [HOSTMODE wait until Digital Rebar service is up [1 upto 20 minutes]]. It eventually timed out with the following message:
  fatal: [52.37.196.237]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "elapsed": 1200, "failed": true, "msg": "Timeout when waiting for False:3000"}.
  I was able to access the UX regardless. However, ..ux/#/login came up and I couldn't log in. This was solved by just reentering ../ux/ in the url bar. I was able to access the ux after that.

The colors in 5.1.11.1 Machines (in provisioner.rst) are outdated. (At least, it doesn't mention yellow, but there is yellow.)
Images on several of the pages are still broken.

The workload page on the UX portion of the documentation (/user/webux/workload.rst) is out of date. Page should be updated to match current state of the UX, and functionality discussed in training video 001c should be added.

Advanced drop down is missing from the docs as well.

Will edit this issue to add more sections that need work, if they appear.

http://digital-rebar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/webux/workload.html#o-s-instalation-wizard

doc/workloads/installation.rst points to workload_parameters, which does not exist. I cannot find the file it is supposed to reference. However, it seems like something that should exist.

examples:

• 5.1.2.1's overview image
• 5.1.3's deployments image
• 5.1.5's provider image

We need to document that the lsb-release package, if it exists for the OS on the admin node, is installed. Not sure we can do it from ansible, but we should doc it in the quick start and the install docs.

I've created a VM in google to attempt to install Rebar to it.

Currently, I've encountered an issue in that the VM must have at least 6GB of RAM to be able to deploy Rebar.

TASK [Check RAM to prevent low memory bring up issues] *************************
fatal: [10.128.0.3]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "!!! LOW RAM FAILURE - 3700 is insufficient
 RAM to run Digital Rebar.  6Gb Minimum !!!"}

A note about this should probably be added somewhere in the deployment guide.

Also, Google has a connect option that pulls up a terminal already connected to the VM in the web browser. This can be used to easily access and install to the system without having to ssh into the system.

Complete install code, after opening terminal from Google:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
mkdir digitalrebar
git clone https://github.com/rackn/digitalrebar-deploy digitalrebar/deploy
ln -s digitalrebar/ digitalrebar/deploy/compose/digitalrebar
cd digitalrebar/deploy
./run-in-system.sh --help
ip -4 addr
export IPA=[CIDR]
./run-in-system.sh --deploy-admin=local --admin-ip=$IPA

And the same issue as always appears:

TASK [FORWARDER wait until Digital Rebar service is up [1 upto 20 minutes]]

Takes forever before finally failing due to a timeout.

http://digital-rebar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/api/node.html#examples

Using Ubuntu VM, created Ubuntu running Packet Server

After setting up install, and running the install program, the following occurs:

root@t3:~/digitalrebar/deploy# ./run-in-system.sh --deploy-admin=local --access=HOST --wl-docker-swarm --admin-ip=$IPA
Overriding DEPLOY_ADMIN with local
Overriding ACCESS with HOST
Overriding ADMIN_IP with 147.75.203.123/31
cat: compose/tag: No such file or directory
WARNING: ******************************
WARNING: Changing tags can be dangerous
WARNING: ******************************
Device IP = 147.75.203.123/31
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Instead of sudo/sudo_user, use become/become_user and
make sure become_method is 'sudo' (default).
This feature will be removed in a
future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting
deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

PLAY [Install Digital Rebar by RackN 2015] *************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Check RAM to prevent low memory bring up issues] *************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Update repos] ************************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Install EPEL [SLOW]] *****************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123] => (item=[])

TASK [Install Prereqs [SLOW]] **************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123] => (item=[])

TASK [Install Provisioner Prereqs [SLOW]] **************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123] => (item=[])

TASK [Install Provisioner ruby-gems for CentOS/RedHat 6] ***********************
skipping: [147.75.203.123] => (item=[])

TASK [gem install kvm slaves] **************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Silly flush of iptables] *************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Update repos (was not working from apt:)] ********************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Install Prereqs [SLOW]] **************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123] => (item=[])

TASK [Install Provisioner Prereqs [SLOW]] **************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123] => (item=[])

TASK [Provisioner gem install kvm slaves] **************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [stop apparmor] ***********************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [remove apparmor] *********************************************************
skipping: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Add python2.7 repo] ******************************************************
changed: [147.75.203.123]

TASK [Update repos (was not working from apt:)] ********************************
changed: [147.75.203.123]
[WARNING]: Consider using 'become', 'become_method', and 'become_user' rather
than running sudo

TASK [Update python [SLOW]] ****************************************************
changed: [147.75.203.123]

**TASK [Install Prereqs [SLOW]] ******************************************************
fatal: [147.75.203.123]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "The conditional check 'ansible_os_family == "Debian" and ansible_lsb.major_release == "14"' failed. The error was: cannot import name _unicode\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/root/digitalrebar/deploy/tasks/base.yml': line 14, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n when: ansible_os_family == "Debian" and ansible_lsb.major_release == "15"\n - include: base-ubuntu1404.yml\n ^ here\n"}

NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************
[WARNING]: Could not create retry file 'digitalrebar.retry'. [Errno 2]
No such file or directory: ''

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
147.75.203.123 : ok=4 changed=3 unreachable=0 failed=1

No DHCP continer requested
=== HELPFUL COMMANDS ===
repeat Ansible run: ansible-playbook -i /tmp/run-in-hosts.8800 --extra-vars "{

"dr_access_mode": "HOST", "dr_external_ip": "147.75.203.123/31",

"dr_tag": "latest",
"dr_classifiers": [ ],
"dr_services": [ "--ntp" , "--revproxy" , "--chef" , "--dns" , "--webproxy" , "--dns-mgmt" ],
"dr_workloads": [ "ux" , "docker-swarm" ]
}" digitalrebar.yml --connection=local
Digital Rebar UI https://147.75.203.123 (for RackN UX try https://147.75.203.123/ux/ )
root@t3:~/digitalrebar/deploy#

Will attempt again, but error has already occurred in multiple instances.