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Installation

Vagrant Install

A Vagrant install is an easy way to get everything running in a local virtual machine. This includes an install of MongoDB, Girder, Romanesco, Apache, and the Flow application. To get started, install Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Ansible. It's then a matter of cloning this repository and running vagrant up:

git clone https://github.com/Kitware/flow.git
cd flow
vagrant up

When that completes (it will take some time - get a coffee), visit http://localhost:8080/ to visit the interface.

To see the Girder interface, visit http://localhost:8080/girder.

To create new analyses and save data, login to Flow or Girder with username girder and password girder.

To log in to your virtual machine, run:

vagrant ssh

From that environment, you can restart Romanesco:

sudo stop romanesco
sudo start romanesco

To view the Romanesco log for analysis debugging:

sudo cat /var/log/upstart/romanesco.log

To restart Girder:

sudo stop girder
sudo start girder

To enter a local MongoDB shell:

mongo

The default Vagrant install will also install several R libraries needed for Arbor analyses, which takes a significant amount of time. To turn off this step, edit devops/ansible/playbook.yml and set the arbor variable to false.

Ansible Installation

Note

Using Ansible with Flow requires Ansible (version >= 1.9.3 and < 2.0).

The Vagrant installation is actually just an instrumentation of using Flow's packaged Ansible playbooks on a virtual machine.

The Ansible playbooks can be used on any machine supporting Ansible's requirements.

Start by creating an inventory file for Ansible, this is a list of hosts (to which you have SSH access) that our roles will be installed on. Ansible has excellent documentation on their Inventory - but these are the roles you will want to setup for Flow

[all]
user@some-host

[mongo]
user@some-host

[girder]
user@some-host

[rabbitmq]
user@some-host

Save this to a location you can reference, and then run the following to provision Flow

ansible-playbook -i path/to/inventory/file devops/ansible/site.yml

This may take a while, but at the end you should have a working version of Flow at http://localhost:8080/.