Stacki Tools

This repository contains code that runs outside of a Stacki frontend, that is, a Stacki frontend is not required to run any code in this repo. This repo contains:

• stacki-tools/src/fab

Used to create the stacki-fab RPM which contains /opt/stack/bin/frontend_install.py. This program is used to transform a server that is running vanilla CentOS (or Red Hat) into a working Stacki frontend. See below for details.

• stacki-tools/src/gen-site-attrs

Used to create the stacki-gen-site-attrs RPM which contains /opt/stack/bin/stacki_attrs.py. This program takes user input and creates /tmp/site.attrs that can be used with Packer to automate the installation of a Vagrant/VirtualBox based frontend. See below for details.

• stacki-tools/src/bob

Used to create the stacki-bob RPM which contains a set of scripts capable of producing automated builds of Stacki pallets, including Stacki itself. See the bob sub-folder's README for details.

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stacki-tools/src/fab

This creates the RPM named stacki-fab-4.x-all.x86_64.rpm. Install this RPM on a vanilla CentOS or Red Hat server, then execute /opt/stack/bin/frontend-install.py to transform the server into a Stacki frontend. See Frontend Installation - Existing for details.

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stacki-tools/src/gen-site-attrs

/opt/stack/gen-site-attrs/bin/stacki_attrs.py is a python script to generate a Stacki site.attrs file for use in provisioning a Stacki Frontend.

stacki_attrs.py allows you to specify all of the possible variables that normally go into a site.attrs file, which you can then roll into an install ISO or (better) serve from an HTTP server (or whatever python's urllib can handle) from a newer version of StackiOS.

stacki_attrs.py has built in defaults for each option. Simply run /opt/stack/gen-site-attrs/bin/stacki_attrs.py list to see what those are. Aside from the defaults, stacki_attrs.py does some sanity checking on your input (checks IP address and timezone validity, etc). Options can be specified with the shortest distinct name e.g. --g and --gateway are synonomous, but --net is invalid because it could be --network or --netmask. Running stacki_attrs.py list will display any specified options as an overlay on top of the defaults.

Misc

Security

You specify your password in plaintext, and then write it out to disk in a variety of encrypted formats. You should really just change the password once the system is up and running. stack set password is your friend here.

Networking

stacki_attrs.py will attempt to calculate your various networking attributes based on IP and netmask (if provided), but will also defer to and options specified on the command-line, even if it thinks they're wrong.

Timezones

For a list of valid timezones, run something like: python -c "import pytz; from pprint import pprint; pprint(pytz.all_timezones)" | less. It currently defaults to the West Coast US timezone.