Freezer Agent Installation¶

Before Installation¶

• Freezer contains two component: Freezer Agent (freezer-agent) and Freeze Scheduler (freezer-scheduler).
• Install Freezer Agent from source (It is not hard).
• Chose correct version of Freezer Agent that corresponds other Freezer components and your OpenStack version.
• Freezer Scheduler stable/Liberty and stable/Kilo releases only works with Keystone API 2.0.

Requirements¶

Freezer Agent require following packages to be installed:

• python
• python-dev
• GNU Tar >= 1.26
• gzip, bzip2, xz
• OpenSSL
• python-swiftclient
• python-keystoneclient
• pymongo
• PyMySQL
• libmysqlclient-dev
• sync
• At least 128 MB of memory reserved for Freezer

Ubuntu / Debian Installation¶

Follow these instructions for Ubuntu or Debian bases Linux distros

Install required packages first:

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip git openssl gcc make automake

For python3:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev git openssl openssl-devel gcc make automake

Clone proper branch of Freezer Client with git:

git clone -b [branch] https://github.com/openstack/freezer.git

Install requirements with pip:

cd freezer/

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Install freezer from source:

sudo python setup.py install

Create ENV file:

sudo nano ~/freezer.env

# tenant user name
OS_TENANT_NAME='[tenant_name]'

# project name
OS_PROJECT_NAME='[project_name]'

# tenan user name
OS_USERNAME='[user_name]'

#tenant user password
OS_PASSWORD='[user_password]'

# API version v2.0 is very important
# freezer does not work with API version 3
OS_AUTH_URL='http://[keystone_uri]:[keystone_port]/v2.0'

# API endpoint type. this is usually 'publicURL'
OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE='publicURL'

Source the newly created ENV file:

. ~/freezer.env

Check if you have successfully authenticated by Keystone:

freezer-agent --action info

If you do not see any error messages, you have successfully installed Freezer Agent

RHEL / Centos Installation¶

Follow these instructions for RHEL or Centos bases Linux distros

Install required packages first:

sudo yum install python-devel python-pip git openssl \
openssl-devel gcc make automake

For python3:

sudo apt-get install python3-devel git openssl \
openssl-devel gcc make automake

Clone proper branch of Freezer Client with git:

git clone -b [branch] https://github.com/openstack/freezer.git

Install requirements with pip:

cd freezer/

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Install freezer from source:

sudo python setup.py install

Create ENV file:

sudo vi ~/freezer.env

# tenant user name
OS_TENANT_NAME='[tenant_name]'

# project name
OS_PROJECT_NAME='[project_name]'

# tenan user name
OS_USERNAME='[user_name]'

#tenant user password
OS_PASSWORD='[user_password]'

# API version v2.0 is very important
# freezer does not work with API version 3
OS_AUTH_URL='http://[keystone_uri]:[keystone_port]/v2.0'

# API endpoint type. this is usually 'publicURL'
OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE='publicURL'

Source the newly created ENV file:

. ~/freezer.env

Check if you have successfully authenticated by Keystone:

freezer-agent --action info

If you do not see any error messages, you have successfully installed Freezer Agent

Windows Installation¶

Only following components supported for Windows OS Platform:

• freezer-agent
• freezer-scheduler

For windows following software must be installed prior to Freezer Agent installation

• Python 2.7
• GNU Tar binaries (we recommend to follow [this guide] (https://github.com/openstack-freezer-utils/freezer-windows-binaries#windows-binaries-for-freezer) to install them)
• [OpenSSL pre-compiled for windows] (https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries) or [direct download](https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/openssl-1.0.1-i386-win32.zip)
• [Sync] (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897438.aspx)
• [Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7] (http://aka.ms/vcpython27)
• [PyWin32 for python 2.7] (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20219/)

After you have installed required packages install pip:

Do not forget to ppen “cmd” as Administrator

easy_install -U pip
pip install freezer

Freezer scheduler on windows run as a windows service and it needs to be installed as a user service:

Do not forget to ppen “cmd” as Administrator

whoami

cd C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\freezer\scheduler

python win_service.py --username {whoami} --password {pc-password} install

Unofficial Installer for Windows¶

There is a unofficial Windows installation script. The script is developed and supported by community.

Windows Installer: https://github.com/openstack-freezer-utils/freezer-windows-installer#windows-freezer-installer