Installing the Eucalyptus 4.0 cloud system

I want to talk about the experience of installing Eucalyptus 4.0. This is the latest AWS compatible cloud system from Eucalyptus. Together with a lot of changes and improvements, the company changed the approach to the demo installation. From ISO, it was decided to proceed to installation using Chef recipes. This made it possible to reduce the installation system ready for testing and expansion of the solution to one command line.


All that is needed for a full test of an AWS compatible system is a minimal CentOS 6.5 installation with 100GB of available disk space in / var.
To install, you just need to type in the command line:
bash <(curl -Ls eucalyptus.com/install)
The system will ask a few simple questions and suggest you go for coffee. After 15 minutes (depending on the speed of the Internet connection), you have a ready-made cloud system with one loaded way that can be immediately launched.
To do this, create a pair of keys:
euca-create-keypair -f test test
and start the virtual machine:
euca-run-instances `euca-describe-images | grep default | awk {'print $2'}` -k test

Eucalyptus currently offers virtual machines with the following operating systems for installation: CentOS 6.5, CentOS 7.0, Fedora 20, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 7, openSUSE 13. The list is constantly changing and is available along with instructions for installing and creating your own virtual machines on the image site .
I used the easiest way to install by calling:
bash <(curl -Ls eucalyptus.com/install-emis)
and I installed the necessary OC.
Last time, I already wrote how to configure the system to increase the number of virtual machines that can be launched without adding new hardware. Eucalyptus 3.4 settings are compatible with Eucalyptus 4.0.
If you need more computational capabilities, you can add a new node by calling:
bash <(curl -Ls eucalyptus.com/install-nc)
on another machine with CentOS 6.5 installed and at least 100GB of available disk space in / var. After that, you need to register it in the already installed system by calling:
euca_conf --register-nodes <ip >

That's all you need to complete testing AWS compatible cloud system.