XOS development environment

This configuration can be used to do basic end-to-end development of XOS. It launches XOS in three Docker containers (development GUI, Synchronizer, database) and configures XOS to talk to an OpenStack backend.

How to run it

The configuration can be either run on CloudLab (controlling an OpenStack backend set up by a CloudLab profile) or used with a basic DevStack configuration.

CloudLab

To get started on CloudLab:

Create an experiment using the OpenStack profile. Choose Kilo and disable security groups.
Wait until you get an email from CloudLab with title "OpenStack Instance Finished Setting Up".
Login to the ctl node of your experiment and run:

ctl:~$ git clone https://github.com/open-cloud/xos.git
ctl:~$ cd xos/xos/configurations/devel/
ctl:~/xos/xos/configurations/devel$ make cloudlab

DevStack

The following instructions can be used to install DevStack and XOS together on a single node. This setup has been run successfully in a VirtualBox VM with 2 CPUs and 4096 GB RAM.

First, if you happen to be installing DevStack on a CloudLab node, you can configure about 1TB of unallocated disk space for DevStack as follows:

~$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/stack
~$ sudo /usr/testbed/bin/mkextrafs /opt/stack

To install DevStack and XOS:

~$ git clone https://github.com/open-cloud/xos.git
~$ git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/devstack
~$ cd devstack
~/devstack$ cp ../xos/xos/configurations/common/devstack/local.conf .
~/devstack$ ./stack.sh
~/devstack$ cd ../xos/xos/configurations/devel/
~/xos/xos/configurations/devel$ make devstack

What you get

XOS will be set up with a single Deployment and Site. It should be in a state where you can create slices and associate instances with them.

Note that there are some issues with the networking setup in this configuration: VMs do not have a working DNS configuration in /etc/resolv.conf. If you fix this manually then everything should work.