wiki:GEC21Agenda/ScalingUp/Procedure/Appendix

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Appendix: Installing software using the Ansible Configuration Management tool

Tools:

To run this exercise, you will need two pieces of software. If you haven't already, get or install these now:

  1. omni installed on your local machine (instructions), and
  2. ansible installed on your local machine (find the instructions for your package manager here).

Resources:

Instructions

2. Establish the Environment

  1. To run this exercise, you will need an account and two pieces of software. If you haven't already, get or install these now:
    1. a GENI Portal account (instructions),
    2. omni installed and configured on your local machine (instructions), and
    3. ansible installed on your local machine (find the instructions for your package manager here).

      Windows users should do the following steps

      Tip Windows users should follow the instructions for setting up a separate GENI node for running Ansible.
  2. Download the webpages and scripts needed for the HelloGENI exercise.

    Use wget to download the tarball of files onto your local machine and use tar to uncompress it:

    wget http://www.gpolab.bbn.com/experiment-support/HelloGENI/hellogeni-install.tar.gz
    tar zxvf hellogeni-install.tar.gz