Wanted to play around with Docker and found an interesting Operating System that hosts docker containers.

This is what I had to do to get it up and running on my Mac OS X with VMware Fusion.

 

 

Lets start by downloading CoreOS. Lightweight Cluster Server.

I downloaded the stable branch, you could also try alpha or beta.

# curl -LO http://stable.release.core-os.net/amd64-usr/current/coreos_production_vmware_insecure.zip

 

 

Unzip a couple of virtuals.

# unzip coreos_production_vmware_insecure.zip -d coreos1

# unzip coreos_production_vmware_insecure.zip -d coreos2 

 

 

Start VMware Fusion and open vmx file on coreos1 and then coreos2. I liked to add more memory, say 2G memory and 20G of disk space.

 

 

Start virtual server.

On the Mac open a terminal and cd into coreos1. Of course you will see I am using a private network for this test and also you should be setting up your own ssh keys.

 

$ cd coreos1

$ ssh -i insecure_ssh_key [email protected] hit enter. You should be logged into coreos1.

 

Now we need to setup a Cloud-Config. Now there is different ways to do this. I choose to setup the virtuals by editing each one, as I wanted to set a static ip address, start some services and connect to get the token for the cluster I want to setup.

 

OK, lets get the token for this new cluster. In a web browser go to http://discovery.etcd.io/new and copy and paste the result into a document, for later use.

 

Setup the Network

# cd /etc/systemd/network

 

# vi static.network

[Match]
Name=<interface Name>

[Network]
Address=192.168.1.100/24
Gateway=192.168.1.1
DNS=8.8.8.8

 

Restart network

# systemctl restart systemd-networkd

 

 

Now we will setup the Cloud-Config

# mkdir /var/lib/coreos-install

 

# vi /var/lib/coreos-install/user_data

#cloud-config

hostname: coreos1

coreos:

  etcd:

    discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/<token>

    addr: 192.168.1.100:4001

    peer-addr: 192.168.1.100:7001

  update:

      reboot-strategy: etcd-lock

  units:

    - name: etcd.service

      command: start

    - name: fleet.service

      command: start

# coreos-cloudinit --from-file /var/lib/coreos-install/user_data

# cd /etc/systemd/system/

# mkdir etcd.service.d

# mv /run/systemd/system/etcd.service.d/20-cloudinit.conf /etc/systemd/system/etcd.service.d/20-cloudinit.conf

Restart virtual.

# reboot

 

 

Now lets work on the second server.

$ cd coreos2

$ ssh -i insecure_ssh_key [email protected] hit enter. You should be logged into coreos2.

 

Now we need to setup a Cloud-Config. Now there is different ways to do this. I choose to setup the virtuals by editing each one, as I wanted to set a static ip address, start some services and connect to get the token for the cluster I want to setup.

 

OK, lets use the token we retrieved before.

 

Setup the Network

# cd /etc/systemd/network

 

# vi static.network

[Match]
Name=<interface Name>

[Network]
Address=192.168.1.101/24
Gateway=192.168.1.1
DNS=8.8.8.8

 

Restart network

# systemctl restart systemd-networkd

 

 

Now we will setup the Cloud-Config

# mkdir /var/lib/coreos-install

 

# vi /var/lib/coreos-install/user_data

#cloud-config

hostname: coreos2

coreos:

  etcd:

    discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/<token>

    addr: 192.168.1.101:4001

    peer-addr: 192.168.1.101:7001

  update:

      reboot-strategy: etcd-lock

  units:

    - name: etcd.service

      command: start

    - name: fleet.service

      command: start

 

# coreos-cloudinit --from-file /var/lib/coreos-install/user_data

# cd /etc/systemd/system/

# mkdir etcd.service.d

# mv /run/systemd/system/etcd.service.d/20-cloudinit.conf /etc/systemd/system/etcd.service.d/20-cloudinit.conf

 

Restart virtual.

# reboot

 

Now we can check and see if the two servers are connected in a cluster.

# fleetctl list-machines

You should receive something like this.

# systemctl status -l fleet

# systemctl start fleet

# systemctl status -l fleet

# systemctl list-machines

 

References:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-coreos-cluster-on-digitalocean 

https://coreos.com/docs/quickstart/

https://coreos.com/docs/cluster-management/setup/cloudinit-cloud-config/

https://coreos.com/docs/launching-containers/building/getting-started-with-docker/

http://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerizing/

https://docs.docker.com/installation/centos/

 

Ansible and Docker

http://www.ansible.com/home

http://www.ansible.com/docker

 

Docker Filesystem Persistence With Flocker

http://www.centurylinklabs.com/docker-filesystem-persistence-with-flocker/

 

Persistence Storage for MySQL Database.

http://www.alexecollins.com/content/docker-persistence/

http://txt.fliglio.com/2013/11/creating-a-mysql-docker-container/

 

CLI reference.

http://docs.docker.com/reference/commandline/cli/

 

Other reference stuff.

https://docs.docker.com/articles/basics/#check-your-docker-install

https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/100

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-troubleshoot-common-issues-with-your-coreos-servers

https://github.com/coreos/coreos-cloudinit/blob/master/Documentation/config-drive.md

http://seanmcgary.com/posts/deploying-docker-containers-on-coreos-using-fleet