This is the main repository containing all build and installation scripts, configuration and customization of operating system and all applications present in SpotterVM virtual machine.

Virtual machine specifications

• Memory: 4 GB
• CPU: 1 processor, 2 cores
• Hard Disk: SCSI, 300 MB
• CD/DVD: IDE
• Network Adapter: Bridged

In case you're setting up a VMWare virtual machine, select OS type Other Linux 3.x kernel 64-bit and after the VM is created, manually edit the *.vmx file using a text editor and add mem.hotadd = "FALSE". Failing to do so will result in system unable to boot. Other hypervisors don't need this adjustment.

Virtual Machine creation

Download Alpine Virtual 3.9.0 x86_64 from https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ and boot from it. At the login prompt, use the root user without password to log in.

# Set up interfaces (leave the default choices)
setup-interfaces
ifup eth0

# Download and launch the setup script  
wget dl.dasm.cz/_vm.sh
sh _vm.sh

The script will perform installation and configuration of Alpine linux, LXC and the whole VMMgr platform. Virtual machine is protected by LUKS-on-LVM disk encryption. The encryption password, which is simultaneously also a password for VMMgr web administration interface, will be asked for at the beginning of the script execution. Root access is disabled.

After the script finishes and shuts down the virtual machine, remove CD/DVD drive from the virtual machine settings and extend the HDD to 80 GB. This is to minimize the overall size of the OVA (Open Virtual Appliance) file to which the VM will be exported.

Application Build environment creation

First time setup

Follow the VM creation steps as above, but comment the line disabling the root login in _vm.sh file before its execution. After the script finishes and HDD size is adjusted, add serial port in the virtual machine settings and set it to use Unix socket or named pipe (eg. \\.\pipe\alpine). Then start the VM and connect to the serial port using screen, PuTTY or any other terminal client.

# Install git and OpenSSH client
apk --no-cache add git openssh-client

# Create SSH key
ssh-keygen -t ecdsa

Assign the newly generated key to your GitLab account

# Clone the repository
git clone --recurse-submodules ssh://git@gitlab.dasm.cz:2222/Spotter-Cluster/Spotter-Cluster.git

# Install the build toolchain
Spotter-Cluster/_build/install-toolchain.sh

After the script finishes, it is possible to connect via SSH (provided you have personal key in authorized_keys) as the toolchain sets up also openssh-server. The serial connection will work only until disconnected. If it should work indefinitely, run

sed -i 's/ttyS0::once/ttyS0::respawn/' /etc/inittab
kill -1 1

Building the packages

There are 3 distinct packaging systems.

1. Just a plain tar for basic OS setup used by _vm.sh installation script.
2. Abuild for the native Alpine linux packages (APK) used for LXC, ACME client and VMMgr packaging.
3. lxc-build/lxc-pack for LXC images building and packaging.

Full build of all components is automated via build-all.sh script. Before the script can be run, signing keys need to be put in place

# Supply Abuild signing key
vi /srv/build/repokey.rsa

# Or generate a new pair
echo '/srv/build/repokey.rsa' | abuild-keygen

# Build all packages
Spotter-Cluster/_build/build-all.sh

The full build process takes considerable amount of time, so it is advised to have a persistent build VM.

Host assignment

Application	Container	UID/GID	Internal Port	Host
ActiveMQ	activemq	61616	61616 (ActiveMQ)	-
CKAN	ckan	8003	8080 (HTTP)	ckan
CKAN Datapusher	ckan-datapusher	8004	8080 (HTTP)	-
Crisis Cleanup	crisiscleanup	8005	8080 (HTTP)	cc
CTS	cts	8006	8080 (HTTP)	cts
EcoGIS	ecogis	8020	8080 (HTTP)	ecogis
FrontlineSMS	frontlinesms	8018	8080 (HTTP)	sms
GNU Health	gnuhealth	8008	8080 (HTTP)	gh
KanBoard	kanboard	8009	8080 (HTTP)	kb
MariaDB	mariadb	3306	3306 (MySQL)	-
Mifos X	mifosx	8012	8080 (HTTP)	mifosx
Motech	motech	8013	8080 (HTTP)	motech
ODK Aggregate	opendatakit	8015	8080 (HTTP)	odk
ODK Build	opendatakit-build	8017	8080 (HTTP)	odkbuild
Odoo	odoo	8019	8080 (HTPP)	odoo
OpenMapKit	openmapkit	8007	8080 (HTTP)	omk
Pan.do/ra	pandora	8002	8080 (HTTP)	pandora
Postgres	postgres	5432	5432 (Postgres)	-
RabbitMQ	rabbitmq	5672	5672 (AMQP)	-
Redis	redis	6379	6379 (Redis)	-
Sahana	sahana	8001	8080 (HTTP)	sahana
SAMBRO	sambro	8001	8080 (HTTP)	sambro
SeedDMS	seeddms	8010	8080 (HTTP)	dms
Sigmah	sigmah	8011	8080 (HTTP)	sigmah
Solr	solr	8983	8983 (HTTP)	-
Ushahidi	ushahidi	8014	8080 (HTTP)	ush