FAQ

Why nodes/transports have hardcoded keys, ips and other inputs ?

This is temporary situation, we will improve it in near future.

I want to use different SSH keys

Just update resource for example:

solar resource update ssh_transport1 '{"key": "/path/to/some/key"}'

I want to use passwords not keys

Just update resource:

solar resource update rsync1 '{"password": "vagrant", "key": null}'

Note

You need to change it for all transport resources (ssh and rsync by default).

How can I run solar worker ?

  • If you use vagrant then you can just sudo start solar-worker as vagrant user.

How can I configure solar ?

There are several places where we search for config values:

  1. .config file in CWD or in path from SOLAR_CONFIG env variable
  2. if env SOLAR_CONFIG_OVERRIDE contains valid path then it override previous values
  3. .config.override in CWD
  4. You can also set upper-cased env variable which matches one of those in config

What database can I use with solar ?

By default for simplicity we use sqlite. On our vagrant environment we use single node riak. You can also use multiple nodes riak, with some strong consistent buckets.

Where can I find solar examples ?

Example resources, composer templates and examples itself are located: https://github.com/openstack/solar-resources

Can I run solar nodes with docker ?

Yes, the docker >=1.10.0 and the vagrant-triggers plugin are required. Note that the vagrant docker provider is an experimental and supports only a single network interface per a container. There is a separate Vagrantfile_docker file. Before using the vagrant up --provider docker command, rename it to the Vagrantfile and do the following preparations at the host system as well:

$ docker pull solarproject/riak

or, depending on the configured DB backend (this also requires the packages make, autoconf, gcc-c++ or g++):

$ git clone https://github.com/kiasaki/docker-alpine-postgres.git
$ cd docker-alpine-postgres
$ make build && cd -

Those will allow the solar nodes to run required nested DB containers.

Note

The command vagrant ssh will not be working for the docker case. Instead, use any of the following commands (with a correct name/IP):

$ ssh vagrant@10.0.0.2
$ docker exec -it solar-dev bash

Note

The command vagrant destroy only cleans up containers for solar nodes and does not clean up other containers launched, like riak, postgres, kolla or the like. You should stop and remove them from the host system manually! Also make sure there are no shared artifacts left in the tmp, .vagrant and solar directoories, otherwise other vagrant providers may fail to provision nodes or Solar CLI to behave in unexpected way:

# rm -f /tmp/solar-*
# rm -rf /tmp/solar_local
# rm -rf tmp
# rm -rf .vagrant/machines
# find solar -name "*.pyc" -delete