Installing and Configuring a Cloudify Manager

A Cloudify Manager is a compute host running Cloudify components.

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

Deploying Cloudify Manager RPM

Cloudify Manager RPM file includes all Cloudify Manager components and their dependencies. The RPM is self-contained, the installation preocess does not require Internet connection.

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>

4. Customize Cloudify Manager’s settings.

5. Cloudify License can applied before installation or after installation

6. Install on a single All-In-One host or install Cloudify cluster

7. Cloudify Manager is ready for use at http(s)://<manager_public_address>

Cloudify Manager Configuration

Once RPM is deployed, file /etc/cloudify/config.yaml (View in GitHub) contain all installation options, including:

Setting | Description

You can validate the configurations are valid using cfy_manager validate command.

Adding Environment Variables

In certain cases, it may be required to add environment variables to the processes that run Cloudify Manager. For example, certain organizations impose restrictions on the installation-default temporary files directory (usually /tmp), requiring the adjustment of the TEMP / TMP / TMPDIR environment variables accordingly.

This can be achieved by providing additional settings in config.yaml:

• The extra_env key under the restservice category contains a dictionary of environment variables to be added to Cloudify’s REST Service.

• The extra_env key under the mgmtworker category is read as dictionary of environment variables to be added to Cloudify’s Management Workers Service.

For example, to override the TEMP environment variable with /var/tmp:

mgmtworker:
  extra_env:
    TEMP: /var/tmp

restservice:
  extra_env:
    TEMP: /var/tmp

Multi-Network Management

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

Multi-network management can be configured before installing a new Manager and after.

Option 1: Configure multi-network management before installing a new Manager:

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

networks:
    default: <privately_routable_ip>
    external: <externally_routable_ip>

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 }

Option 2: Add new networks to a running Manager:

• In order to add networks to a running Manager use the cfy_manager add-networks command.
• New networks should be supplied as a JSON string. It is possible to add multiple new networks using one command (as shown in the example below).
• Please note that you can only add networks with unique names, otherwise an error will be raised.

• If using a Cloudify Manager cluster, the command will add the network only for the node it is run on. The command needs to be run separately on each node in the cluster, for the newly-installed agents to be able to contact all nodes in the cluster.

  cfy_manager add-networks --networks '{"<network-name>": "<ip>", "<network-name>":"<ip>"}'

All In One Installation

To install Cloudify Manager, run:

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

Additional Resources

• Upload plugins to add functionality to Cloudify Manager
• Manage tenants and users.
• Build the secrets store for your tenants. The secrets store lets you store data variables that you do not want to expose in plain text in Cloudify, such as login credentials for a platform.

First Deployment

Check out your new Cloudify Manager by installing the Local Hello-World Example Deployment.
This example demonstrates how you can use Cloudify to easily install a local HTTP server with a hello-world page on it.

Uninstalling Cloudify Manager

• To uninstall the Cloudify Manager, run: sudo cfy_manager remove -f

• To remove all of the files that the installation process extracted, run: sudo yum remove cloudify-manager-install