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# Developer Environment

If you are developing Kolla on an existing OpenStack cloud
that supports Heat, then follow the Heat template [README][].
Otherwise, follow the instructions below to manually create
your Kolla development environment.

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[README]: https://github.com/stackforge/kolla/blob/master/devenv/README.md
## Installing Dependencies

NB: Kolla will not run on Fedora 22 or later.  Fedora 22 compresses kernel
modules with the .xz compressed format.  The guestfs system cannot read
these images because a dependent package supermin in CentOS needs to be
updated to add .xz compressed format support.

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In order to run Kolla, it is mandatory to run a version of `docker-compose`
that includes pid: host support. Support was added in version 1.3.0 and is
specified in the requirements.txt. To install this and other potential future
dependencies:

    git clone http://github.com/stackforge/kolla
    cd kolla
    sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
In order to run Kolla, it is mandatory to run a version of `docker`
that is 1.7.0-dev or later.  Docker 1.5.0 has a defect in `--pid=host`
support where the libvirt container cannot be stopped.  Docker 1.6.0 lacks
specific features needed by the master of Kolla.  Docker 1.7.0-dev introduces
mount propogation which is necessary for Neutron thin containers
and bindmounting of the /dev filesystem which is mandatory for the cinder
container.
If a version of Docker less than 1.7.0-dev is running on your system, stop it:
    sudo systemctl stop docker
    sudo killall -9 docker
If using an RPM based system, use the Docker 1.7.0-dev RPMs provided by the
Fedora project:
    sudo rpm -Uvh --nodeps https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/docker/1.7.0/6.git56481a3.fc23/x86_64/docker-1.7.0-6.git56481a3.fc23.x86_64.rpm

For Debian based systems, use the Docker installation tool provided by Docker,
Inc.:

    curl -sSL https://test.docker.com/ | sh

For Ubuntu based systems, use the Docker installation tool provided by Docker,
Inc.:

    curl -sSL https://test.docker.com/ubuntu | sh
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For Ubuntu based systems, do not use aufs when starting Docker daemon. Instead
use other storage options, e.g., btrfs. This is because cap_set_file is not
permitted on aufs when building docker images.

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Next, install the OpenStack python clients if they are not installed:

    sudo pip install -U python-openstackclient
Finally stop libvirt on the host machine.  Only one copy of libvirt may be
running at a time.

    service libvirtd stop
The basic starting environment will be created using `docker-compose`.
This environment will start up the OpenStack services listed in the
compose directory.

## Starting Kolla

To start, setup your environment variables.

    $ cd kolla
The `genenv` script will create a compose/openstack.env file
and an openrc file in your current directory. The openstack.env
file contains all of your initialized environment variables, which
you can edit for a different setup.

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A mandatory step is customizing the FLAT_INTERFACE network interface
environment variable.  The variable defaults to eth1.  In some cases, the
second interface in a system may not be eth1, but a unique name.  For
example with an Intel driver, the interface is enp1s0.  The interface name
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can be determined by executing the ifconfig tool.  The second interface must
be a real interface, not a virtual interface.  Make certain to store the
interface name in `compose/openstack.env`:
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    NEUTRON_FLAT_NETWORK_INTERFACE=enp1s0
    FLAT_INTERFACE=enp1s0
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Next, run the start command:
    $ sudo ./tools/kolla-compose start
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Finally, run the status command:

    $ sudo ./tools/kolla-compose status
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This will display information about all Kolla containers.
## Debugging Kolla
All Docker commands should be run from the directory of the Docker binary,
by default this is `/`.

The `start` command to Kolla is responsible for starting the containers
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using `docker-compose -f <service-container> up -d`.

If you want to start a container set by hand use this template:

    $ docker-compose -f glance-api-registry.yml up -d


You can determine a container's status by executing:
    $ sudo ./docker ps -a
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If any of the containers exited you can check the logs by executing:
    $ sudo ./docker logs <container-id>
    $ docker-compose logs <container-id>
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If you want to start a individual service like `glance-api` manually, use
this template.  This is a good method to test and troubleshoot an individual
container.  Note some containers require special options.  Reference the
compose yml specification for more details:
    $ sudo ./docker run --name glance-api -d \
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             --net=host \
             --env-file=compose/openstack.env \
             kollaglue/fedora-rdo-glance-api:latest