.. Copyright 2010-2011 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. ======================= Development Quickstart ======================= This page describes how to setup and use a working Python development environment that can be used in developing nova on Ubuntu, Fedora or Mac OS X. These instructions assume you're already familiar with git. Following these instructions will allow you to build the documentation and run the nova unit tests. If you want to be able to run nova (i.e., launch VM instances), you will also need to --- either manually or by letting DevStack do it for you --- install libvirt and at least one of the `supported hypervisors`_. Running nova is currently only supported on Linux, although you can run the unit tests on Mac OS X. .. _supported hypervisors: http://wiki.openstack.org/HypervisorSupportMatrix .. note:: For how to contribute to Nova, see HowToContribute_. Nova uses the Gerrit code review system, GerritWorkflow_. .. _GerritWorkflow: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow .. _HowToContribute: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html .. _`docs.openstack.org`: http://docs.openstack.org Setup ===== There are two ways to create a development environment: using DevStack, or explicitly installing and cloning just what you need. Using DevStack -------------- See `Devstack`_ Documentation. If you would like to use Vagrant, there is a `Vagrant`_ for DevStack. .. _`Devstack`: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/ .. _`Vagrant`: https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack-vagrant/blob/master/README.md .. Until the vagrant markdown documents are rendered somewhere on .openstack.org, linking to github Explicit Install/Clone ---------------------- DevStack installs a complete OpenStack environment. Alternatively, you can explicitly install and clone just what you need for Nova development. The first step of this process is to install the system (not Python) packages that are required. Following are instructions on how to do this on Linux and on the Mac. Linux Systems ````````````` .. note:: This section is tested for Nova on Ubuntu (14.04-64) and Fedora-based (RHEL 6.1) distributions. Feel free to add notes and change according to your experiences or operating system. Install the prerequisite packages. On Ubuntu:: sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev python-pip git-core libxml2-dev libxslt-dev pkg-config libffi-dev libpq-dev libmysqlclient-dev graphviz libsqlite3-dev python-tox On Fedora-based distributions (e.g., Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux):: sudo yum install python-devel openssl-devel python-pip git gcc libxslt-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel libffi-devel libvirt-devel graphviz sqlite-devel sudo pip-python install tox On openSUSE-based distributions (SLES 12, openSUSE 13.1, Factory or Tumbleweed):: sudo zypper in gcc git libffi-devel libmysqlclient-devel libvirt-devel libxslt-devel postgresql-devel python-devel python-pip python-tox python-virtualenv Mac OS X Systems ```````````````` Install virtualenv:: sudo easy_install virtualenv Check the version of OpenSSL you have installed:: openssl version The stock version of OpenSSL that ships with Mac OS X 10.6 (OpenSSL 0.9.8l) or Mac OS X 10.7 (OpenSSL 0.9.8r) or Mac OS X 10.10.3 (OpenSSL 0.9.8zc) works fine with nova. OpenSSL versions from brew like OpenSSL 1.0.1k work fine as well. Getting the code ```````````````` Once you have the prerequisite system packages installed, the next step is to clone the code. Grab the code from git:: git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/nova cd nova Building the Documentation ========================== Install the prerequisite packages: graphviz To do a full documentation build, issue the following command while the nova directory is current. .. code-block:: bash tox -edocs That will create a Python virtual environment, install the needed Python prerequisites in that environment, and build all the documentation in that environment. Running unit tests ================== See `Running Python Unit Tests`_. .. _`Running Python Unit Tests`: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/python.html#running-python-unit-tests Using a remote debugger ======================= Some modern IDE such as pycharm (commercial) or Eclipse (open source) support remote debugging. In order to run nova with remote debugging, start the nova process with the following parameters --remote_debug-host --remote_debug-port Before you start your nova process, start the remote debugger using the instructions for that debugger. For pycharm - http://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2010/12/python-remote-debug-with-pycharm/ For Eclipse - http://pydev.org/manual_adv_remote_debugger.html More detailed instructions are located here - http://novaremotedebug.blogspot.com Using fake computes for tests ============================= The number of instances supported by fake computes is not limited by physical constraints. It allows you to perform stress tests on a deployment with few resources (typically a laptop). But you must avoid using scheduler filters limiting the number of instances per compute (like RamFilter, DiskFilter, AggregateCoreFilter), otherwise they will limit the number of instances per compute. Fake computes can also be used in multi hypervisor-type deployments in order to take advantage of fake and "real" computes during tests: * create many fake instances for stress tests * create some "real" instances for functional tests Fake computes can be used for testing Nova itself but also applications on top of it.