Installing Eucalyptus (1.5.2) on Debian squeeze/sid

Eucalyptus can be installed on Debian squeeze or sid using binary DEB packages. Squeeze has not been released yet, so things can change quickly and without warning.

Download DEBs

Eucalyptus binary installation is broken up into several packages: the cloud controller (-cloud package), the cluster controller (-cc package), and the node controller (-nc package). To simplify installation, everything is bundled into a single "tarball" for convenience, wherein we include copies of third-party packages that Eucalyptus depends on (Rampart, Axis2C, and Java libraries).

Download the appropriate tarball from http://open.eucalyptus.com/downloads

  • For 32-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.2-squeeze-i386.tar.gz
  • For 64-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.2-squeeze-amd64.tar.gz

Untar the bundle in a temporary location and add the directory to your sources.list 

tar zxvf eucalyptus-1.5.2-*.tar.gz
cd eucalyptus-1.5.2-*
su
echo deb file://${PWD} ./ >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update

NOTE: After installation feel free to remove the entry from sources.list

Prerequisites

If you start with a standard Debian Squeeze installation, you will satisfy all Eucalyptus prerequsites with the following steps:

  1. Front-end, node and client machine system clocks are syncronized (i.e., using NTP).
  2. Firewall rules must permit the Eucalyptus components to communicate with one another, and clients to communicate with Eucalyptus.
    • NOTE: on the front-end, ports 8443, 8773, 8774 must be open. On the node, port 8775 must be open
  3. Ensure that locales are properly configured (use dpkg-reconfigure locales)

Node Controllers: eucalyptus-nc

  1. Node has a fully installed and configured installation of Xen.
    • RECOMMENDED: verify your Xen installation by manually bringing up a VM and testing that it has network connectivity using bridged networking.
    • EXAMPLE: /etc/xend/xend-config.sxp 
      (xend-http-server yes)
(xend-unix-server yes)
(xend-unix-path /var/lib/xend/xend-socket)
(xend-address localhost)
(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)
(dom0-min-mem 196)
(dom0-cpus 0)
(vncpasswd '')

Install DEBs on the front end

On front end, where cloud controller and cluster controller will run, install the -cloud and -cc DEBs: 

aptitude install eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-cloud

Install DEBs on the nodes

On the compute nodes, install the node controller DEB: 

aptitude install eucalyptus-nc