Tutorial request: Fedora 14 + Postgres 8.x + JBoss.5.x / 6.x appliance for Amazon EC2

[goldmann]

From one of our community members:

Hello,

is there any step-by-step (quick start) tutorial how to create Fedora 14 + Postgres 8.x + JBoss.5.x / 6.x appliance for Amazon EC2 ?

For my projects I need to have e.g. one or more Amazon Fedora Linux EC2 instances which contain Postgres DB server + JBoss 5.x/6.x farm. So, clustering must be supported.

Fedora 14 package URLs: (for the OS)

- base url: http://fedora.inode.at/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/

- mirror url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f14&arch=x86_64

list of packages from Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/a*?_csrf_token=e45c1629abf4b8f34a8ec409c21d508bfa22efb2

Postgres URLs for appliance : ?

JBoss 5.x / 6.x URLs for appliance : ?

It would be nice to have one appliance to have ALL-in-one; maybe some working appliance definition file samples

Best Regards,

Krešimir

[kresimir_popovic]

Hello,

I have no experience with the BoxGrinder, but I have read http://community.jboss.org/wiki/BoxGrinderDocumentation.

I need a guidance/review regarding BoxGrinder because I want to make a developer step-by-step manual how to create Fedora 14 + Postgres + JBoss appliance.

As I undestand *.appl files describe packages which linux distribution (Fedora or RHEL) needs to contain.

In my case:

Fedora 14 Linux

    - Postgres DB server

    - httpd apache

    - JBoss 5.x / 6.x

1. Fedora 14 appliance

name: Fedora 14 appliance
summary: Fedora 14 appliance (core)
version: 1
release: 0
os:
  name: fedora
  version: 14
  password:root
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 512
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 2
packages:
  includes:
    - jython
    - jwhois
    - ftp
    - ftplib
    - mc
    - bash
    - kernel
    - grub
    - e2fsprogs
    - passwd
    - policycoreutils
    - chkconfig
    - rootfiles
    - yum
    - vim-minimal
    - acpid
    - lokkit
    - dhclient
    - iputils
    - generic-logos
    - openssh-server

appliances:
    - Postgres appliance (back-end)
    - JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)
    - Apache appliance (front-end)

repos:
- name: "fedora-14"
    baseurl: "http://fedora.inode.at/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/"

  - name: "fedora-14-updates"
    mirrorlist: "http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f14&arch=x86_64"

2. Postgres appliance (back-end)
name: Postgres appliance (back-end)
summary: Postgres appliance (back-end)
version: 1
release: 0
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 512
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 1
packages:
  includes:
  - postgresql
  - postgresql_autodoc
  - postgresql-dbi-link
  - postgresql-ip4r
  - postgresql-jdbc
  - postgresql-odbc
  - postgresql-odbcng
  - postgresql-pgpool
  - postgresql-pgpoolAdmin
  - postgresql-pgpool-ha
  - postgresql-pgpool-II
  - postgresql-plparrot
  - postgresql-plruby
  - postgresql-table_log
  - check_postgres

3. JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)

name: JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)
summary: JBoss 6.x JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)
version: 1
release: 0
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 512
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 1
packages:
  includes:
   - jboss-as6
   - jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
   - java-1.6.0-openjdk
   - javamail
   - javatar
   - jython

repos: ???

4. Apache appliance (front-end)

name: Apache appliance (front-end)
summary: Apache appliance (front-end)
version: 1
release: 0
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 256
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 1
packages:
  includes:
   - httpd
   - httperf
   - httping
   - http_ping
   - httptunnel
   - httpunit

@Marek: Can you give some comments on *.appl list ? I don't JBoss "repos" location. Some pointers would be apritieted.

Best Regards,

Krešimir

[goldmann]

Krešimir Popović wrote:

Hello,

I have no experience with the BoxGrinder, but I have read http://community.jboss.org/wiki/BoxGrinderDocumentation.

I need a guidance/review regarding BoxGrinder because I want to make a developer step-by-step manual how to create Fedora 14 + Postgres + JBoss appliance.

As I undestand *.appl files describe packages which linux distribution (Fedora or RHEL) needs to contain.

In my case:

Fedora 14 Linux

    - Postgres DB server

    - httpd apache

    - JBoss 5.x / 6.x

Yes, in appliance definition files you specify what software should be included in your appliance based on specified operating system.

1. Fedora 14 appliance

name: Fedora 14 appliance
summary: Fedora 14 appliance (core)
version: 1
release: 0
os:
  name: fedora
  version: 14
  password:root
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 512
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 2
packages:
  includes:
    - jython
    - jwhois
    - ftp
    - ftplib
    - mc
    - bash
    - kernel
    - grub
    - e2fsprogs
    - passwd
    - policycoreutils
    - chkconfig
    - rootfiles
    - yum
    - vim-minimal
    - acpid
    - lokkit
    - dhclient
    - iputils
    - generic-logos
    - openssh-server

appliances:
    - Postgres appliance (back-end)
    - JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)
    - Apache appliance (front-end)

repos:
- name: "fedora-14"
    baseurl: "http://fedora.inode.at/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/"

  - name: "fedora-14-updates"
    mirrorlist: "http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f14&arch=x86_64"

Name must not contain spaces and should be written with lower case letters. Appliance definition name should be equal to name: jeos.appl => name: jeos.

Instead specifying many packages, you can use groups – for minimal install use @core group and then add additional packages:

packages:
  includes:
    - @core
    - jython
    - ...

You can use yum groupinfo core command for full package list for core group.

Appliances listed in appliances section needs to match the name of other appliances (see comment above).

Repos for Fedora are not required, packages will be pulled from right Fedora repos. Don't use arch names in .appl files - use #ARCH# or #BASE_ARCH# parameters.

2. Postgres appliance (back-end)
name: Postgres appliance (back-end)
summary: Postgres appliance (back-end)
version: 1
release: 0
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 512
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 1
packages:
  includes:
  - postgresql
  - postgresql_autodoc
  - postgresql-dbi-link
  - postgresql-ip4r
  - postgresql-jdbc
  - postgresql-odbc
  - postgresql-odbcng
  - postgresql-pgpool
  - postgresql-pgpoolAdmin
  - postgresql-pgpool-ha
  - postgresql-pgpool-II
  - postgresql-plparrot
  - postgresql-plruby
  - postgresql-table_log
  - check_postgres

Name - see comment above.

Other things looks OK for me.

3. JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)

name: JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)
summary: JBoss 6.x JBoss 6.x appliance (back-end)
version: 1
release: 0
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 512
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 1
packages:
  includes:
   - jboss-as6
   - jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
   - java-1.6.0-openjdk
   - javamail
   - javatar
   - jython

Wrong name.

So, JBoss AS is not shipped as RPM as you may know. We (SteamCannon guys) provide a RPM for JBoss AS, which may not be right for you. The packages are hosted here: http://repo.steamcannon.org/packages/fedora/. We haven't build F14 versions, but these RPMs are noarch, so it shouldn't matter.

4. Apache appliance (front-end)

name: Apache appliance (front-end)
summary: Apache appliance (front-end)
version: 1
release: 0
hardware:
  cpus: 2
  memory: 256
  partitions:
    /:
      size: 1
packages:
  includes:
   - httpd
   - httperf
   - httping
   - http_ping
   - httptunnel
   - httpunit

Name wrong. Other looks ok.

Please take a look at SteamCannon appliances so you'll have some ideas how to modify your appliances. We provide also spec files for all RPM's we use.

--Marek