[Swift-devel] Re: Getting VMs from FG for use with swift
John Bresnahan
bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jun 7 23:27:35 CDT 2011
Are we at a point where we can have cloudinit.d called from swift and have the hostnames parsed from
the json output file? That might make a good demo.
On 06/07/2011 03:01 PM, David Kelly wrote:
> Yep, I am using the VMs I get from cloudinitd with Swift. The only problem I sometimes notice is
> that cloudinitd can be pretty slow to finish.. somewhere between the point where it prints the
> information about the hosts (hostname, instance id, etc) but before it prints the success message
> and exits. I was thinking maybe it's related to the hotel filesystem problems from last week, but
> I'm not sure. Other times cloudinitd finishes quickly without any major delays.
>
> Once it gets past initializing the VMs it runs great. I've been testing with a script called
> hostsn.swift which basically just calls 'hostname' several times and sends the output to a file.
> It's useful for verifying that all the VMs are processing work. When you get a chance to test it
> out, the hostsn script is in the swift examples directory. You can call it with something like this:
>
> swift -sites.file sites.xml -tc.file tc.data -config cf hostsn.swift -n=100
>
> N is the number of 'hostname' processes to launch.. the files will be created in a directory called
> outdir.
>
> Feel free to send me an email when you get a chance to look at it and we can talk more about it.
>
> David
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:59 PM, John Bresnahan <bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov>>
> wrote:
>
> great! I will take a look at that when I can (I am on travel right now).
>
> Getting back to using cloudinit.d for swift... we you able to use the VMs you got from
> FutureGrid with swift? I was hoping we could start encorperating that into swift, or at least
> acquire a set of VMs and use those as you currently use static machines in some demos.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Kelly" <davidkelly999 at gmail.com <mailto:davidkelly999 at gmail.com>>
> To: "John Bresnahan" <bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov>>
> Cc: "Mike Wilde" <wilde at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov>>, "swift-devel"
> <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu <mailto:swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 2:39:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Getting VMs from FG for use with swift
>
> Hello John,
>
> I have attached a quickstart guide I wrote on how to get Swift working with futuregrid by using
> the new Swift coaster service scripts. This will require the latest development version of
> Swift. Instructions on how to download/install are in the document.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions, if anything is unclear, or if you run into any
> problems. Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:18 PM, John Bresnahan < bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov
> <mailto:bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov> > wrote:
>
>
> The GPFS server on the FG cluster hotel died yesterday so I cannot get you your credentials.
> I'll get back to you when it is up again. Once it is back the process for getting the needed
> access keys is described here:
>
> https://portal.futuregrid.org/tutorials/nimbus
>
>
>
>
> On 05/23/2011 05:24 AM, David Kelly wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> I now have a futuregrid account and am added to a project. I am now trying to get our scripts
> working together.
>
> I ran into a few problems at first when trying to run the futuregrid scripts. On the first system I
> tried I was getting a traceback. It is possible that the system I was using has older versions of
> some of the needed libraries. Then I tried it on a more system that is more frequently updated - my
> laptop running Ubuntu 10.10. It needed a newer version of the Python crypto tools installed, so I
> installed that (and the python development libraries) and that part seems fine now.
>
> I am now up to the point of the install script where it is trying to register keys, but it is
> failing. My guess is that I need to change FUTUREGRID_IAAS_ACCESS_KEY and FUTUREGRID_IAAS_SECRET_KEY
> in env.sh. I'm not sure what these should be exactly. Are these the contents of my ssh keys, an ssh
> key and a passphrase, or some other type of security? I've tried a few combinations of different
> things but haven't had much luck yet.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
> Traceback from earlier:
> Installing setuptools.......................done.
> Complete output from command /autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-...ython
> /autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-...stall pip:
> Searching for pip
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
> Reading http://pip.openplans.org
> Reading http://www.pip-installer.org
> Best match: pip 1.0.1
> Downloading
> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.0.1.tar.gz#md5=28dcc70225e5bf925532abc5b087a94b
> Processing pip-1.0.1.tar.gz
> Running pip-1.0.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-GHsjHX/pip-1.0.1/egg-dist-tmp-rXjQ7L
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module>
> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c11', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1712, in main
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1700, in with_ei_usage
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1716, in <lambda>
> File "/soft/python-2.6.1-r1/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
> dist.run_commands()
> File "/soft/python-2.6.1-r1/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
> self.run_command(cmd)
> File "/soft/python-2.6.1-r1/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
> cmd_obj.run()
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 211, in run
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 446, in easy_install
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 476, in install_item
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 655, in install_eggs
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 930, in build_and_install
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 919, in run_setup
> File
> "/autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-boot/ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py",
> line 52, in run_setup
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__getstate__'
> ----------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "bin/virtualenv.py", line 1647, in <module>
> main()
> File "bin/virtualenv.py", line 558, in main
> prompt=options.prompt)
> File "bin/virtualenv.py", line 656, in create_environment
> install_pip(py_executable)
> File "bin/virtualenv.py", line 415, in install_pip
> filter_stdout=_filter_setup)
> File "bin/virtualenv.py", line 624, in call_subprocess
> % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
> OSError: Command /autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-...ython /autonfs/home/davidk/swift-vm-...stall pip
> failed with error code 1
> Failed to created the needed python virtual environment
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:20 PM, John Bresnahan < bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov
> <mailto:bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov> <mailto: bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:bresnaha at mcs.anl.gov> >>
>
>
>
> wrote:
>
> Our phone call today left me motiviated to show you guys how easy it is to get virtual machines
> for use with swift on FutureGrid.
>
> I made some small scripts around the Nimbus tool cloudinitd. The scripts just make installing
> the software and running it trivial. With a single command you can get N VMs from the
> FutureGrid Nimbus clouds (N can be on the order of hundreds). When the tool is done it outputs
> a line separated list of hostnames. All of these hostnames have root access available via your
> ~/.ssh/id_rsa keys.
>
> If/when you have FutureGrid credentials, untar the attachment and give it a try. There are a
> few minor configurations needed:
>
>
> 1) edit the file env.sh and set your FutureGrid security credentials:
>
> % cat env.sh
> export FUTUREGRID_IAAS_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> export FUTUREGRID_IAAS_SECRET_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
> export FUTUREGRID_HOTEL_NODES=2
> export FUTUREGRID_SIERRA_NODES=2
>
> You can also change the value '2' to be whatever number of VMs you want.
>
>
> 2) install it on your system. (this single command downloads and installs everything you need
> under the cwd):
>
> % ./install.sh
>
> 3) boot the VMs
> % ./bin/bootit.sh.
> You will see much status output, but the last several lines will be the hostnames acquired from
> the cloud.
>
> Let me know when you guys are ready to check this out!
>
>
>
>
>
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