Compass

A Deoployment Automation System. See Wiki page at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Compass.

Porject homepage: http://www.syscompass.org/

How to use in production environments: http://www.syscompass.org/install.html

Try compass out: http://www.syscompass.org/user.html

Quick Guide

How to install Compass?

1. Run git clone -b dev/exeperimental git://git.openstack.org/stackforge/compass-core.git
2. Run cd compass to the Compass project directory.
3. Run ./install/install.sh to setup compass environment. Please note that before you execute install.sh, you may setup your environment variables in install/install.conf, explanations and examples of those variables can be found in install.conf.
4. Run ./bin/refresh.sh to initialize database.
5. Run service compass-celeryd start to start compass celery daemon service.
6. Run service compass-progress-updated start to start compass progress update daemon service.

How to play Compass?

1. Make sure your host is one of: mac/ubuntu trusty/ubuntu precise.
2. Make sure your OS and CPU architecture are both 64-bit.
3. Make sure you have virtualbox installed.
4. Make sure you have virtualbox extension pack installed to support pxe.
5. Run git clone -b dev/experimental git://git.openstack.org/stackforge/compass-core.git
6. Go to directory compass-core/vagrant
7. Run ./launch.sh Note: all the vboxnet interfaces and compass related vms should be removed prior to another launch.

FAQ

• Why doesn't celery start? What should I do if I get celery died but pid file exists message after running service compassd status?

1. Simply remove celery pid file (/var/run/celery.pid).
2. Try running export C_FORCE_ROOT=1
3. Restart Compass celery daemon.

• How to check if the compass services run properly?

1. Run service compass-celeryd status and compass-progress-updated status to check compass services status.
2. Run service httpd status to check web service status.

• How to troubleshoot if compassd can not start the services?

  1. Try to remove /var/run/celeryd.pid to release the celeryd lock
  2. Try to remove /var/run/progress_update.pid to release the progress_update lock.

• How to use compass to install distributed systems?

Access http://<server_ip>. http://www.syscompass.org/install.html has some UI instructions.

• How to run unittest?

  1. . ~/.virtualenvs/compass-core/bin/activate to activate compass python venv
  2. go to compass-core directory
  3. make sure you have dependency packages installed, if you used compass install scripts to install compass, they are already installed
  4. run tox -epy26 or tox -pey27 depending on your python version.

• Where to find the log file?

  1. /var/log/compass/compass.log is the compass web log.
  2. /var/log/compass/celery.log is the celery log, celery logs contain most important debugging information.
  3. The redirected celeryd stdout/stderr is at /tmp/celeryd.log.
  4. The redirected progress_update.py stdout/stderr is at /tmp/progress_update.log
  5. The web server (httpd) log files are under /var/log/httpd/.

• Where to find the compass config file?

  1. the compass setting file is at /etc/compass/setting.
  2. the default global config file for installing distributed system is at /etc/compass/setting
  3. the default celery config file is at /etc/compass/celeryconfig
  4. adapters, templates and flavor configs are at /etc/compass/ as well.

• Where are the utility scripts for compass? They are at /opt/compass/bin/