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Revision 1 (Tom Clegg, 08/07/2020 03:29 PM) → Revision 2/5 (Tom Clegg, 08/07/2020 08:20 PM)

h1. All-in-one package 

 (draft / work in progress, see #16306 and "arvados-server boot (google doc)":https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvABO9WOg5svK2LIETaEgg9jZQp6Lydb47HrG3NMsFM/edit) 

 "arvados-server-easy" is a debian/rpm package that can be used to create a single-node production cluster from scratch with minimal effort: 

 <pre> 
 apt-get install arvados-server-easy 
 arvados-server init -cluster-id x1234 
 systemctl start arvados 
 </pre> 

 This page is mostly about how we build/maintain the package, rather than how to use it. 

 h2. Building 

 source:cmd/arvados-dev (similar to arvados-client/server) has: 
 * a "buildpackage" subcommand that creates a deb/rpm package from source (i.e., a checkout of the arvados source tree, possibly with local modifications). It takes care of installing dependencies, fpm, etc. 
 * "docker-build-install", a bash script (could move to Go) that builds a package for a given OS version by injecting the buildpackage command into a docker container with that OS version, installs the resulting package into a new base OS image, and saves the resulting image for testing purposes. (currently, debian:10 is implemented) 
 * "docker-boot", a bash script (could move to Go) that brings up a cluster using the testing image (the one with arvados-server-easy already installed), optionally injecting local changes to enable a quicker dev cycle. For example, "docker-boot.sh cmd/arvados-server" builds a new arvados-server binary on the host, then starts a container using the test image but with the new arvados-server binary bind-mounted over the packaged one. 

 Package publishing outline (pseudocode): 
 <pre> 
 ./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-build-install.sh -os debian:10 -force-buildimage -force-installimage 
 </pre> 

 Development cycle, when working on Go programs and other things that docker-boot.sh knows how to rebuild+overlay: cycle: 
 <pre> 
 ./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-build-install.sh -os debian:10 # (just once, takes 10+ minutes minutes) 
 ./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-boot.sh 
 # (edit some Go code locally) 
 ./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-boot.sh cmd/arvados-server       # takes 15+ seconds to start 15 seconds, mostly starting postgresql, create creating db, etc., and boot etc 
 # (edit some Go code locally) 
 ./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-boot.sh cmd/arvados-server nginx.conf 
 # ... 
 </pre> 

 Development cycle when working on packaging stuff itself: 
 * Rebuild the package-building image from base OS image, then use it to build a new package (this is slow because it downloads/installs OS package dependencies, compiles Ruby, etc.): <pre>./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-build-install.sh -os debian:10 -force-buildimage</pre> 
 * Build a new package, then install it onto a base OS image (this checks whether the package still installs & boots correctly after you change the OS dependencies in source:lib/install, or after the base OS itself has changed): <pre>./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-build-install.sh -os debian:10 -force-installimage</pre> 
 * Build a new package, and reinstall it on the existing cached installimage (this builds and tests an actual package, but skips re-downloading/re-installing all of its OS dependencies): <pre>./cmd/arvados-dev/docker-build-install.sh -os debian:10</pre>