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Configuring the OpenWhisk server

This guide contains instructions on manually setting up Openwhisk and CouchDB on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server.

The guide is based on the OpenWhisk Ansible README, which at the time of writing is missing some key steps and gotchas - hence this new guide.

1. Dependencies

sudo apt-get update

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On Linux

Installing mkisofs

apt-get install mkisofs

Editing ISO image

mkdir /tmp/custom_iso

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set -e

set -u

# hat-tips:
# - http://codeghar.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/automated-customized-debian-installation-using-preseed/
# - the gist

# required packages (apt-get install)
# xorriso

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#!/bin/sh
#https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
#set -e

if [ "$1" = "" ];then
        echo "Call this script with part1, part2 or clean as argument"
        exit 0
fi
IMAGE_NAME="LIVE_TEST"
ISO="kubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso"

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#!/bin/bash

# Vorhandensein der Programme prüfen
MKISOFS=( $(which genisoimage mkisofs) )

if ! [ -x "$MKISOFS" ]; then echo "genisoimage aka mkisofs is missing"; exit 1; fi
if ! [ -x "$(which gcc)" ]; then echo "gcc is missing"; exit 1; fi
if ! [ -x "$(which nasm)" ]; then echo "nasm is missing"; exit 1; fi
if ! [ -x "$(which cpio)" ]; then echo "cpio is missing"; exit 1; fi
if ! [ -x "$(which tar)" ]; then echo "tar is missing"; exit 1; fi

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# This script create a Centos Minimal Unattended ISO

# This method is based on excellent article http://pyxlmap.net/technology/software/linux/custom-centos-iso
# 
# This script has be tested with CentOS 7.2 (on the orign server) to install CentOS 7.2 (on the target server)
# TODO:
# * test package update to reduce the update task on the target system. The following command downloads all updates :
#   (cd $CENTOS_CUSTOM_PATH/Packages ; yumdownloader $(for i in *; { echo ${i%%-[0-9]*}; } ) )

# Some global settings :

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#!/bin/bash

# add-preseed-and-firmware-to-debian: Add non-free firmware and preseed to Debian install media
#
# Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Hedi Nasr <[email protected]>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

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# Bridge for VMs (default on Fedora is virbr0)
BRIDGE=virbr0

# Cloud init files
USER_DATA=user-data
META_DATA=meta-data
CI_ISO=$1-cidata.iso

# cloud-init config: set hostname, remove cloud-init package,
# and add ssh-key 

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build:
	genisoimage \
		-U -r -v -T -J -joliet-long \
		-V 'CentOS 7 x86_64' \
		-volset 'CentOS 7 x86_64' \
		-A 'CentOS 7 x86_64' \
		-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
		-c isolinux/boot.cat \
		-no-emul-boot \
		-boot-load-size 4 \

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#!/bin/sh
# Ubuntu 12.04
# sudo apt-get -y install p7zip-full genisoimage

wget http://www.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/release/Core-current.iso
wget http://www.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/release/distribution_files/core64.gz
wget http://www.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/release/distribution_files/vmlinuz64

# extract files
7z x Core-current.iso -ocore-current