Private Cloud Installation - without root access

[gnanasekaran]

Is it possible to do private cloud installation without root access?

or is it atleast possible to scope out what components need root access and what do not need root?

UPDATE: So looks like its possible to install without root access, and has been verified by @Paul Mibus on 15.04 - See Marc's answer

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Not sure this is completely supported (please check with PM), but this is the approach to install as a non root user:

[bwa]$ mkdir ~/opt      # use a folder in the home dir - it is writeable

[bwa] cd ./apigee-edge-4.15.04.00

[bwa]$ ./apigee-install.sh -j /opt/jdk1.7 -r ~/opt/ -d ~/opt/

Now check pre-requisites:

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-openldap-check-prerequisites.sh

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-postgres-check-prerequisites.sh

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-qpid-check-prerequisites.sh

Ask your sysadmin to install everything the three scripts complain about (Note: for postgresql the admins need to add the postgres yum repo: "yum install http://yum.postgresql.org/9.3/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-centos93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm")

Then start the installation as normal user, e.g. an all-in-one (aio) profile:

[bwa] $ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-setup.sh -f config-aio -p aio

Then create org, user, roles, envs and your are done

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Not sure this is completely supported (please check with PM), but this is the approach to install as a non root user:

[bwa]$ mkdir ~/opt      # use a folder in the home dir - it is writeable

[bwa] cd ./apigee-edge-4.15.04.00

[bwa]$ ./apigee-install.sh -j /opt/jdk1.7 -r ~/opt/ -d ~/opt/

Now check pre-requisites:

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-openldap-check-prerequisites.sh

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-postgres-check-prerequisites.sh

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-qpid-check-prerequisites.sh

Ask your sysadmin to install everything the three scripts complain about (Note: for postgresql the admins need to add the postgres yum repo: "yum install http://yum.postgresql.org/9.3/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-centos93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm")

Then start the installation as normal user, e.g. an all-in-one (aio) profile:

[bwa] $ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-setup.sh -f config-aio -p aio

Then create org, user, roles, envs and your are done

[Former Community Member]

@arghya das @Paul Mibus

[gnanasekaran]

Thanks Bernhard, i tried this, i think there are problems with openldap, postgres and qpid - will check the logs and confirm the exact issues - i don know if its because of yum install

[#6]

That's why I wrote "ask your sysadmin". The installation of postgresql, openldap and the pre-requisites of qpid need root access. So in a real customer scenario you need to do the check scripts, note the result and ask the sysadmins to install these things.

Afterwards you can continue as a non root.

I tried it yesterday as described and the installation in my home dir worked and I could deploy a proxy ...

[gnanasekaran]

Thanks Bernhard, I think these were mainly user errors [my errors!], Now I am able to almost install it , few more errors - i am assuming they are also user related. Let me try again and confirm. Thanks Again!, very helpful!

[adas]

Some of our components do need root access, at least from a script perspective for installation, start/stop etc. It may be a good idea to raise a feature request to the OPDK team to allow private cloud installation without root access.

[gnanasekaran]

Thanks Argho, can we get a list of those components that need sudo privileges?

For eg, even all-start.sh wont run without sudo

[birute]

This might be a good Idea post - you can post it here https://community.apigee.com/content/idea/post.html

[mschreuder · Accepted solution]

The topic of non-root OPDK installation has been quite a hot one. If you go to JIRA and search for the text string "non root" you will see a bunch of results from many projects...here's a summary of some that might be most relevant:

OPDK-918: Non-root installation not possible in OPDK 15.01 (check out final comment that after some changes it was restored in 15.04).

Here are a couple that reflect some of the issues that need to be addressed for non-root installation: AUTOPT-138 and AUTOPT-177.

There's also a specific request for next-gen OPDK from Pranav: MAG-243: Non-root/non-sudo install.

[gnanasekaran]

Thanks @mschreuder, Very helpful!

[birute]

Here is an article with an answer summarizing this discussion: https://community.apigee.com/articles/6256/private-cloud-installation-without-internet-access.html

[sgilson]

Birute, that is a link to an install without internet access, not root access.