The installation of CACTOS Toolkit is based on the incentive of the user to use CACTOS. As described in the above section “Typical Usage Scenarios”, one can make use only of the Monitoring, the Datacentre Management, the Simulation or install the full loop.

Install Puppet

The installation of CACTOS was Puppet-ised, in order to deliver the CACTOS Toolkit as coherent as possible. Hence the only requirement is to install the Puppet client on any virtual machine you choose to place the CACTOS components. All the components of CACTOS were described as Puppet modules. There is an official installation guide for Puppet, depending on the operating system. For Ubuntu 14.04, i.e. you can just run:

sudo -i
wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install puppet
sudo apt-get install puppet-agent # to get the last version 4.8.0

Test the installed version with puppet --version. If it returns 4.8.0, you are good to go. In any other case, try to get the 4.8.0 version from Puppet guides.

Install more required packages

• Install git package

sudo apt-get install git

A generic CACTOS Puppet module installation

Every CACTOS module has some dependencies to other technologies. An easy way to install them is to use a package manager lik librarian-puppet.

1. Make sure you have installed Puppet and run gem install librarian-puppet

2. Navigate to the folder /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/ and run librarian-puppet init. A file with the name Puppetfile will be created.

3. Modify the Puppetfile and add the git repository of the CACTOS tool you want to install. The file after modification should look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#^syntax detection

forge "https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com"

# use dependencies defined in metadata.json
# metadata

# use dependencies defined in Modulefile
# modulefile

# A module from the Puppet Forge
# mod 'puppetlabs-stdlib'

# A module from git
# mod 'puppetlabs-ntp',
#   :git => 'git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-ntp.git'

# A module from a git branch/tag
 mod 'puppetlabs-<class_name_of_module_in_init.pp>',
   :git => '<git_repo_https>'
#   :ref => '1.4.x'

# A module from Github pre-packaged tarball
# mod 'puppetlabs-apache', '0.6.0', :github_tarball => 'puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache'

All the modules are installed under the folder path /modules.

4. Create a file with the name site.pp, with the configuration defined for each tool in the installation guides and save the file.

5. Finally run:

puppet apply site.pp

Attention! A minimum requirement for installing CACTOS with Puppet, is to have the Puppet v4.8.0 on an Ubuntu 14.04.