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Automating the installation and configuration of the StorageGRID host service

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You can automate the installation of the StorageGRID host service using standard orchestration frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Fabric, or SaltStack.

The StorageGRID host service is packaged in a DEB and is driven by configuration files that can be prepared ahead of time (or programmatically) to enable automated installation. If you already use a standard orchestration framework to install and configure Ubuntu or Debian, adding StorageGRID to your playbooks or recipes should be straightforward.

You can automate these tasks:

  1. Installing Linux

  2. Configuring Linux

  3. Configuring host network interfaces to meet StorageGRID requirements

  4. Configuring host storage to meet StorageGRID requirements

  5. Installing Docker

  6. Installing the StorageGRID host service

  7. Creating StorageGRID node configuration files in /etc/storagegrid/nodes

  8. Validating StorageGRID node configuration files

  9. Starting the StorageGRID host service

Example Ansible role and playbook

Example Ansible role and playbook are supplied with the installation archive in the /extras folder. The Ansible playbook shows how the storagegrid role prepares the hosts and installs StorageGRID onto the target servers. You can customize the role or playbook as necessary.