rackspace

Provision a Deis Controller on Rackspace

1. Install knife-rackspace with gem install knife-rackspace or just bundle install from the root directory of your deis repository:

$ cd $HOME/projects/deis
$ gem install knife-rackspace
Fetching: knife-rackspace-0.8.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed knife-rackspace-0.8.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for knife-rackspace-0.8.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for knife-rackspace-0.8.1...

2. Export your Rackspace credentials as environment variables and edit knife.rb to read them:

$ cat <<'EOF' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
export RACKSPACE_USERNAME=<your_rackspace_username>
export RACKSPACE_API_KEY=<your_rackspace_api_key>
EOF
$ source $HOME/.bash_profile
$ cat <<'EOF' >> $HOME/.chef/knife.rb
knife[:rackspace_api_username] = "#{ENV['RACKSPACE_USERNAME']}"
knife[:rackspace_api_key] = "#{ENV['RACKSPACE_API_KEY']}"
EOF
$ knife rackspace server list
Instance ID  Name  Public IP  Private IP  Flavor  Image  State

3. Prepare an new image.
   • This will be used as the image to create a new controller as well as new nodes in a formation.

$ ./contrib/rackspace/prepare-rackspace-image.sh
+ dpkg -l 'linux-*'
+ xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
++ uname -r
++ sed 's/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/'
...
+ rm -f /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
+ find /var/log -type f
+ xargs rm
+ sync

4. Run the provisioning script to create a new Deis controller:
   • Change <region> to be one of:
     • dfw
     • ord
     • iad
     • lon
     • syd
     • hkg

$ ./contrib/rackspace/provision-rackspace-controller.sh <region>
Provisioning a deis controller on Rackspace...
Creating new SSH key: deis-controller
+ ssh-keygen -f /home/myuser/.ssh/deis-controller -t rsa -N '' -C deis-controller
+ set +x
Saved to /home/myuser/.ssh/deis-controller
Created data_bag[deis-users]
Created data_bag[deis-formations]
Created data_bag[deis-apps]
Provisioning deis-controller with knife rackspace...
+ knife rackspace server create -y --server-create-timeout 1200 --server-name deis-controller --image 4b7c635d-89e1-44be-a15f-2877b5a660d1 --rackspace-region <region> --flavor 4 --identity-file /home/myuser/.ssh/deis-controller --bootstrap-version 11.4.4 --node-name deis-controller --run-list 'recipe[deis::controller]'
Instance ID: de17ca36-f186-4cdd-8969-4be58e7108ea
Name: deis-controller
Flavor: 2GB Standard Instance
...