jamesloyd/vagrant-openafs

A Vagrant demo for OpenAFS

OpenAFS demo using Vagrant

This is a vagrant config for trying out OpenAFS. This was used in a presentation at SouthEast Linux Fest 2013.

Boxen

Both boxes have three virtual hard drives. The 2nd and third drives are formatted at creation time and mounted as /vicepa and /vicepb

• dbserver - First box. A self-contained box running OpenAFS DB server and file server.

• file server - an additional file server to see how how to move volumes around.

How to use

Using rvm is recommended.

Install the librarian-puppet module

git clone git://github.com/edgester/vagrant-openafs.git
cd vagrant-openafs/puppet
librarian-puppet install
cd ..
vagrant up dbserver
vagrant ssh dbserver

Once in the VM, setup kerberos and set the stash password and "admin" password:

sudo -i
/vagrant/scripts/setup-kerberos

Set up OpenAFS the cell, type in the admin password from the previous step when prompted

/vagrant/scripts/setup-openafs-dbserver
service openafs-client restart

You now have a working OpenAFS cell in a single VM.

To add a second file server, run the following:

# while in the dbserver VM as root
cp  /etc/openafs/server/* /vagrant/tmp
exit # sudo
exit # the VM
vagrant up fileserver
vagrant ssh fileserver
sudo -i
cp /vagrant/tmp/* /etc/openafs/server/
/vagrant/scripts/setup-openafs-fileserver
service openafs-fileserver restart

Enjoy using your new OpenAFS VM!

Gotchas

• The puppet modules take the realmname, cellname and DB servers as parameters. The IP's and hostnames for DB servers should be in the same positino in the array.

• The files in /vagrant/scripts have hard-coded cell and realm names. Edit the files if you want to use a name other than example.org

• The setup uses a pre-compile DKMS kernel module. To upgrade the kernel, install the kernel headers and build-essential packages.

More info

• OpenAFS web site
• OpenAFS Docs
• OpenAFS Mailing list