Ubuntu

We’re going to be using Ubuntu on a cloud server for this installation.

Prerequisites

  • Port 9000 must be open and accessible from the Internet so that GitHub can communicate with the Zuul web service.

Login to your environment

Since we’ll be using a cloud image for Ubuntu, our login user will be ubuntu which will also be the staging user for installation of Zuul and Nodepool.

To get started, ssh to your machine as the ubuntu user.

ssh ubuntu@<ip_address>

Environment Setup

First, make sure the system packages are up to date, and then install some packages which will be required later. Most of Zuul’s binary dependencies are handled by the bindep program, but a few additional dependencies are needed to install bindep, and for other commands which we will use in these instructions.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip git

# install bindep, the --user setting will install bindep only in
# the user profile not global.
pip3 install --user bindep

Install Zookeeper

Nodepool uses Zookeeper to keep track of information about the resources it manages, and it’s also how Zuul makes requests to Nodepool for nodes.

sudo apt-get install -y zookeeper zookeeperd