How to set up an OpenGeo Suite cluster in a virtual environment¶

Virtual environment¶

1. Set up five instances of Ubuntu 12.04 in VMware or other virtual environment.

The following servers will be configured by the script:

• 2 GeoServers
• 2 PostgreSQL servers (with replication)
• 1 NFS backend (only the connection from the Geoservers, no configuration on the NFS Server itself will be done)

1. Make note of the IP addresses for each of these servers as they will be needed later.

Packages¶

1. Mac OS X only: Install pip:

   sudo easy_install pip
   

2. Ansible must be installed via pip. If you have Ansible installed through your standard package manager, run apt-get remove --purge ansible first before running pip install ansible.

3. Install the python-dev package through your package manager. For example, on Ubuntu:

   apt-get install python-dev
   

4. Install boto with pip:

   pip install boto
   

Clustering script¶

1. Download and extract the clustering script archive to a directory.

   Note

   If you are an Enterprise client and do not have the script, please let us know.

2. Open the file hosted_vars/main.yml in a text editor.

3. Enter in the five IP address that correspond to the five virtual machines:

   geoserver1_ip: 10.63.25.156
   geoserver2_ip: 10.95.184.118
   nfsserver_ip: 10.69.22.254
   postgres1_ip: 10.146.172.94
   postgres2_ip: 10.171.41.240
   

4. Save and close the file.

5. Open the file hosts.hosted in a text editor.

6. Enter the same IP addresses here as well under their respective headers, with the exception of the NFS server, which is not needed in this file:

   [local]
   127.0.0.1
   
   [geoservers]
   10.63.25.156
   10.95.184.118
   
   [postgresservers]
   10.146.172.94
   10.171.41.240
   

7. Save and close the file.