Cloud installation

In order to install Virtual Folder in VM or in cloud environment you may use prepared images:

1. https://appdb.egi.eu/store/vappliance/d6.1.virtualfoldervm - The standard OVA (open virtual appliance) image can be used to deploy West-Life VM into e.g. OpenNebula cloud environment. This image is already contextualized for binary bootstrap.

2. https://appdb.egi.eu/store/vappliance/west.life.vm - RAW image can be used to deploy West-Life VM into OpenStack cloud environment. This image is not contextualized - call binary contextualization at /cvmfs/west-life.egi.eu/software/virtualfolder/latest/bootstrap/bootstrapcloud.sh

3. Any generic image of based on RHEL 7, (e.g. CernVM 4, Centos 7,...) and use one of the following script for contextualization

• for binary installation: /cvmfs/west-life.egi.eu/software/virtualfolder/latest/bootstrap/bootstrapcloud.sh

• for source code installation:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  mkdir -p /opt/virtualfolder-src
  cd /opt/virtualfolder-src
  git clone https://github.com/h2020-westlife-eu/west-life-wp6.git
  export WP6SRC=/opt/virtualfolder-src/west-life-wp6/wp6-virtualfolder
  export PORTAL_DEPLOYMENT=0  # 1 =enable VRE - multiuser environment
  export SSO_DEPLOYMENT=0 # 1 =enable SSO -multiuser environment
  chown -R vagrant:vagrant $WP6SRC
  $WP6SRC/bootstrap/bootstrap.sh

Downloading VM image

You may download the latest West-life VM in the OVA compatible format from

https://appdb.egi.eu/store/vappliance/d6.1.virtualfoldervm

Alternatively you may use the RAW image for deployment into OpenStack at https://appdb.egi.eu/store/vappliance/west.life.vm

Use the downloaded image to deploy it to prefered provider. You may deploy the image in EGI resources - follow EGI documentation.

Contextualization

OVA image for OpenNebula contains by default contextualization, RAW image for OpenStack contains reference to cloud-init file which needs to be provided in order to boot Virtual Folder and related software during first boot. By default the image contextualization is set to use direct connection to CernVM-FS repositories. If you have local squid proxy server, it is very recommended to configure it in contextualization script.

[ucernvm-begin]
cvmfs_http_proxy=http://<host>:<port>
[ucernvm-end]

[cernvm]
proxy = http://<host>:<port>;DIRECT

Further information about contextualization of CernVM can be found at https://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/contextualisation