Installing Replicated via AMI

Instructions for delivering a pre-built VM for a release

Documentation

Replicated Native Scheduler

Replicated Native Scheduler

Packaging An Application

Managing Customer Installations

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Replicated Native Scheduler

Packaging An Application

Managing Customer Installations

Installing Replicated

Supported Operating Systems

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Installing Replicated by Script

Installing Replicated via AMI

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Adding Nodes To A Replicated Cluster

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Native Scheduler Examples

This content is associated with a legacy version of the Replicated product. For the current Replicated product docs, click here.

At times, it can be desirable to deliver an a preconfigured, generic VM to allow customers a familiar installation path. While Replicated does not provide an official machine image, understanding which Replicated-specific files are needed - and which are not needed - is sufficient for delivering a pre-built AMI for a release

Required images

Images listed in this section can be loaded from Replicated airgap bundles and have to be present on the primary node.

Replicated images

All of the images below can be found in replicated.tar.gz package. If loading images manually, the current tag needs to be added manually as well.
quay.io/replicated/replicated:current
quay.io/replicated/replicated-ui:current
quay.io/replicated/replicated-operator:current
registry.replicated.com/library/support-bundle:v0.19.2
registry.replicated.com/library/statsd-graphite:0.3.5
registry.replicated.com/library/retraced:1.2.2
registry.replicated.com/library/cmd:1.2.4
registry.replicated.com/library/retraced-nsq:v1.0.0-compat-20180619
registry.replicated.com/library/retraced-postgres:10.3-20180619
registry.replicated.com/library/premkit:1.2.0

Application images

Application images must be tagged <PRIVATE_ADDRESS>:9874/<IMAGE_NAME>:<VERSION>. In this string:

  • PRIVATE_ADDRESS is the host IP that Replicated is configured to use as the PRIVATE_ADDRESS.
  • IMAGE_NAME depends on the original registry URL of the image.
  • VERSION is always the same as in the original image.

This image list can be obtained by running docker ps -a command on a host where the same version of the application has been installed.

Replicated files

Replicated stores configuration in several locations:

/var/lib/replicated-operator/replicated-operator.conf

This file contains Replicated Operator configuration. Typical contents look like this:

{"OperatorID":"c2b4118080d64cd070a1dd08cf19a9a8"}

Note that OperatorID has to be different on each node. This can be any string.

/etc/default/replicated

RELEASE_CHANNEL=stable
PRIVATE_ADDRESS=10.128.0.11
REPLICATED_OPTS=" -e DAEMON_TOKEN=L4ub0ElG8cVMonnHC4Id2 -e LOG_LEVEL=info -e NODENAME=host001.internal"

/etc/default/replicated-operator

RELEASE_CHANNEL=stable
DAEMON_ENDPOINT=[10.128.0.11]:9879
DAEMON_TOKEN=L4ub0ElG8cVMonnHC4Id2
DAEMON_HOST=[10.128.0.11]
PRIVATE_ADDRESS=10.128.0.11
REPLICATED_OPERATOR_OPTS=" -e PUBLIC_ADDRESS=35.202.38.158 -e TAGS=local -e LOG_LEVEL=info -e NODENAME=host001.internal"

Note that PRIVATE_ADDRESS in this file will be different on each node.

System services

Replicated containers are controlled by system service manager. This requires three configuration files.

Note that in all of these files:

  1. PRIVATE_ADDRESS, RELEASE_CHANNEL, and REPLICATED_OPTS come from the /etc/defaults files described above.
  2. User=1017 is the Replicated user created by the install script.
  3. Group=999 is the Replicated group created by the install script.

/etc/systemd/system/replicated.service

[Unit]
Description=Replicated Service
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
PermissionsStartOnly=true
TimeoutStartSec=0
KillMode=none
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/replicated
User=1017
Group=999
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm -f replicated
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/replicated /var/lib/replicated /var/lib/replicated/statsd
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R 1017:999 /var/run/replicated /var/lib/replicated
ExecStartPre=-/bin/chmod -R 755 /var/lib/replicated/tmp
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --name=replicated \
    -p 9874-9879:9874-9879/tcp \
    -u 1017:999 \
    -v /var/lib/replicated:/var/lib/replicated \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/host/var/run/docker.sock \
    -v /proc:/host/proc:ro \
    -v /etc:/host/etc:ro \
    -v /etc/os-release:/host/etc/os-release:ro \
    -v /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt:/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt \
    -v /var/run/replicated:/var/run/replicated \
    --security-opt label=type:spc_t \
    -e LOCAL_ADDRESS=${PRIVATE_ADDRESS} \
    -e RELEASE_CHANNEL=${RELEASE_CHANNEL} \
    $REPLICATED_OPTS \
    quay.io/replicated/replicated:current
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop replicated
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=7

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

:/etc/systemd/system/replicated-operator.service

[Unit]
Description=Replicated Operator Service
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
PermissionsStartOnly=true
TimeoutStartSec=0
KillMode=none
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/replicated-operator
User=1017
Group=999
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm -f replicated-operator
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/replicated-operator /var/lib/replicated-operator
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R 1017:999 /var/run/replicated-operator /var/lib/replicated-operator
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --name=replicated-operator \
    -u 1017:999 \
    -v /var/lib/replicated-operator:/var/lib/replicated-operator \
    -v /var/run/replicated-operator:/var/run/replicated-operator \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/host/var/run/docker.sock \
    -v /proc:/host/proc:ro \
    -v /etc:/host/etc:ro \
    -v /etc/os-release:/host/etc/os-release:ro \
    --security-opt label=type:spc_t \
    -e DAEMON_ENDPOINT=${DAEMON_ENDPOINT} \
    -e DAEMON_TOKEN=${DAEMON_TOKEN} \
    -e NO_PROXY=${DAEMON_HOST} \
    -e PRIVATE_ADDRESS=${PRIVATE_ADDRESS} \
    $REPLICATED_OPERATOR_OPTS \
    quay.io/replicated/replicated-operator:current
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop replicated-operator
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=7

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

/etc/systemd/system/replicated-ui.service

[Unit]
Description=Replicated Service
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
PermissionsStartOnly=true
TimeoutStartSec=0
KillMode=none
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/replicated
User=1017
Group=999
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm -f replicated-ui
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/replicated
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R 1017:999 /var/run/replicated
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --name=replicated-ui \
    -p 8800:8800/tcp \
    -u 1017:999 \
    -v /var/run/replicated:/var/run/replicated \
    --security-opt label=type:spc_t \
    $REPLICATED_UI_OPTS \
    quay.io/replicated/replicated-ui:current
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop replicated-ui
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=7

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target