Installing Watcher¶

Prerequisites¶

The source install instructions specifically avoid using platform specific packages, instead using the source for the code and the Python Package Index (PyPi).

It’s expected that your system already has python2.7, latest version of pip, and git available.

Your system shall also have some additional system libraries:

On Ubuntu (tested on 14.04LTS):

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev libmysqlclient-dev libffi-dev

On Fedora-based distributions e.g., Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux (tested on CentOS 7.1):

$ sudo yum install gcc python-devel openssl-devel libffi-devel mysql-devel

Installing from Source¶

Clone the Watcher repository:

$ git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/watcher.git
$ cd watcher

Install the Watcher modules:

# python setup.py install

The following commands should be available on the command-line path:

• watcher-api the Watcher Web service used to handle RESTful requests
• watcher-decision-engine the Watcher Decision Engine used to build action plans, according to optimization goals to achieve.
• watcher-applier the Watcher Applier module, used to apply action plan
• watcher-db-manage used to bootstrap Watcher data

You will find sample configuration files in etc/watcher:

• watcher.conf.sample

Install the Watcher modules dependencies:

# pip install -r requirements.txt

From here, refer to Configuring Watcher to declare Watcher as a new service into Keystone and to configure its different modules. Once configured, you should be able to run the Watcher services by issuing these commands:

$ watcher-api
$ watcher-decision-engine
$ watcher-applier

By default, this will show logging on the console from which it was started. Once started, you can use the Watcher Client to play with Watcher service.

Installing from packages: PyPI¶

Watcher package is available on PyPI repository. To install Watcher on your system:

$ sudo pip install python-watcher

The Watcher services along with its dependencies should then be automatically installed on your system.

Once installed, you still need to declare Watcher as a new service into Keystone and to configure its different modules, which you can find described in Configuring Watcher.

Installing from packages: Debian (experimental)¶

Experimental Debian packages are available on Debian repositories. The best way to use them is to install them into a Docker container.

Here is single Dockerfile snippet you can use to run your Docker container:

FROM debian:experimental
MAINTAINER David TARDIVEL <david.tardivel@b-com.com>

RUN  apt-get update
RUN  apt-get dist-upgrade -y
RUN  apt-get install -y vim  net-tools
RUN  apt-get install -yt experimental watcher-api

CMD ["/usr/bin/watcher-api"]

Build your container from this Dockerfile:

$ docker build -t watcher/api .

To run your container, execute this command:

$ docker run -d -p 9322:9322 watcher/api

Check in your logs Watcher API is started

$ docker logs <container ID>

You can run similar container with Watcher Decision Engine (package watcher-decision-engine) and with the Watcher Applier (package watcher-applier).