Installation¶

Before Installation¶

• You will be required to install Freezer Agent before installing Freezer API or Freezer Web UI
• Install Freezer Agent from source. Do not use pip!
• Use this guide to install Freezer Agent to OpenStack Controller node (Where you have installed Horizon and Keystone)
• Use corresponding release to your OpenStack version. For example; If your OpenStack version is Liberty, user stable/Liberty branch.

Requirements¶

• python
• python-dev
• git
• Development Tools (gcc)
• libffi
• GNU Tar >= 1.26
• gzip, bzip2, xz
• OpenSSL
• OpenSSL Development
• python-swiftclient
• python-keystoneclient
• libmysqlclient-dev
• sync

You can check up to date required packages from “requirements.txt”

Ubuntu / Debian Installation¶

Follow these instructions if your OpenStack controller nodes are installed on Ubuntu or Debian based Linux distros

Install required packages first:

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip git openssl 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