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Installing and Configuring Cloudify Manager

A Cloudify Manager is a compute host that runs the Cloudify Management service. For version 4.3 and higher, you can install a single RPM file that installs Cloudify Manager with all of its dependencies. The Cloudify Manager RPM file is self-contained and does not require an internet connection during installation.

The installation process installs all of the components that Cloudify depends on. You can run the install command again after the initial installation to reinstall and reconfigure the components. The configure command lets you reconfigure the components without reinstallation. When you install or configure the Cloudify Manager, you can specify the private IP address, public IP address and administrator password as command options, or specify these and other configuration settings in the config.yaml file.

You can install the Cloudify CLI on a separate host to manage your Cloudify Manager remotely.

Installing Cloudify Manager

The Cloudify Manager is installed from an RPM file. The installation can be customized with command-line flags and the config.yaml file. The Cloudify Manager installation FAQ includes more information about troubleshooting and advanced scenarios.

Best Practices

We recommend that you do not skip validations or sanity checks, and that you review the security recommendations.

To install Cloudify Manager:

  1. Download the Cloudify Manager RPM file.
  2. Copy the RPM file to your target host.

  3. From the terminal of your target host, run:

    sudo yum install <RPM file path>

    For example: sudo yum install /home/centos/cloudify-manager-install-4.3.1ga.x86_64.rpm

  4. Configure the Cloudify Manager networks in the config.yaml file.

  5. Review the configuration settings in the config.yaml file and make any necessary changes.

  6. To install Cloudify Manager, run:

    cfy_manager install [--private-ip <PRIVATE_IP>] [--public-ip <PUBLIC_IP>] [--admin-password <password>] [-v]

Other Installation Actions

Validating the Installation

When the installation process is complete, you can use cfy status to make sure that all of the Cloudify services are running. Cloudify Premium customers can access the Cloudify Console at:

An example output: 

$ cfy status

...

Retrieving manager services status... [ip=127.0.0.1]

Services:
   +--------------------------------+---------+
   |            service             |  status |
   +--------------------------------+---------+
   | InfluxDB                       | running |
   | Celery Management              | running |
   | Logstash                       | running |
   | RabbitMQ                       | running |
   | AMQP InfluxDB                  | running |
   | PostgreSQL                     | running |
   | Manager Rest-Service           | running |
   | Cloudify Stage                 | running |
   | Webserver                      | running |
   | Riemann                        | running |
   | Webserver                      | running |
   +--------------------------------+---------+

   ...

Configuring the Manager Settings

After you install Cloudify Manager, you can change the settings used by the installation without reinstalling the Cloudify components. The configure command accepts the same CLI inputs as the install command, and it reads the same config.yaml file for additional settings.

To change the Cloudify Manager installation settings:

  1. Edit the config.yaml file.
  2. To configure Cloudify Manager, run: cfy_manager install [--private-ip <PRIVATE_IP>] [--public-ip <PUBLIC_IP>] [--admin-password <password>] [-v]

Additional Cloudify Manager Settings

In addition to the command line options, the /etc/cloudify/config.yaml (View in GitHub) contains more advanced configuration settings, including:

The /etc/cloudify/config.yaml file can be validated at any time using the cfy_manager validate command. This performs the same checks that cfy_manager install does.

Multi-Network Management

Cloudify Manager uses Cloudify Agents to execute tasks and collect information about the resources that it manages. Before you install your Cloudify Manager, you must specify the Cloudify Manager IP addresses or DNS names that your agents will use to communicate with it.

The Cloudify Manager networks are configured in the agent:networks section of the /etc/cloudify/config.yaml file, for example:

agent:
  networks:
    default: <privately_routable_ip>
    external: <externally_routable_ip>
  broker_port: 5671
  min_workers: 2
  max_workers: 5

You must specify the name of the Cloudify Manager network for each agent that deployed in your blueprint with this syntax:

  host:
    type: cloudify.nodes.Compute
    properties:
      agent_config:
        network: external
        install_method: remote
        user: { get_input: username }
        key: { get_secret: agent_key_private }
        port: 22
      ip: { get_input: host_ip }

Security Recommendations

For security considerations, we recommend that you:

Emptying the Cloudify Manager Database

Data Loss

Emptying the Cloudify Manager database erases Cloudify data and is irreversible.

During both installation and configuration of Cloudify Manager, you can use the --clean-db option to empty all of the data from the Cloudify Manager database. The initial installation does not require the --clean-db flag.

Uninstalling Cloudify Manager

Data Loss

Uninstalling the Cloudify Manager erases all Cloudify data and is irreversible.

Next Steps

After Cloudify Manager is installed, you can configure your Cloudify Manager for your environment, including: