Installing Eucalyptus (1.5.2) on Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)

Eucalyptus can be installed on Ubuntu Jaunty using binary DEB packages.

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.

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

For 32-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.2-ubuntu-i386.tar.gz
For 64-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.2-ubuntu-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-*
sudo -s
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 Ubuntu Jaunty installation, you will satisfy all Eucalyptus prerequsites with the following steps:

Front-end, node and client machine system clocks are syncronized (i.e., using NTP).
```
ntpdate-debian -s
apt-get install openntpd
```

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

Your node machine(s) must be configured with a bridge as the primary interface, if running in SYSTEM networking mode (default). You must first uninstall or disable Network Manager (default with Ubuntu Desktop), then follow the procedure below (example):

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

Comment out any entry for your existing interfaces (eth0/eth1 etc) and add a bridge entry with your interfaces attached. For example, to have your bridge come up with all physical ethernet devices added to it, and have DHCP assign an address to the bridge:

auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
      bridge_ports all

For a static configuration with just eth0 attached (substitute your actual network parameters):

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
      address 192.168.12.20
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      network 192.168.12.0
      broadcast 192.168.12.255
      gateway 192.168.12.1
      dns-nameservers 192.168.12.1
      dns-search foobar foobar.com
      bridge_ports eth0

And finally restart the network by either by restarting the network using '/etc/init.d/network restart' or by rebooting the machine.

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 eucalyptus-common

Install DEBs on the nodes ¶

On the compute nodes, install the node controller DEB:

aptitude install eucalyptus-nc eucalyptus-common