Agile testbed/Cloud/Installation notes
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This page contains notes on the installation of the agile testbed cloud.
Base install
- Install CentOS 5 bare-bones
- Setup LDAP authentication (see this guide)
- add ldap to /etc/nsswitch.conf's passwd, shadow and group entries
- configure /etc/ldap.conf according to this
- make sure the DutchGrid CA certificate is in /etc/openldap/cacerts/16da7552.0 (from rpm or here)
- add an appropriate pam_ldap.so before each pam_unix line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth
- create homedirs for your users as /user/<username> with correct owner
- Enable Xen (see also Xen on CentOS 5)
- yum install xen kernel-xen
- make grub boot Xen kernel by default (change default in /boot/grub/menu.lst), add nosmp to kernel cmdline and reboot
Master
- Install and configure OpenNebula
- Setup dynamic DNS
- install and configure bind
- create OpenNebula hooks with ddns-update script
- Setup image repository
OpenNebula documentation Building Clouds presentation
Slaves
- Enable passwordless ssh login from master for oneadmin user
