shifter

Chef cookbook that installs Shifter - Linux Containers for HPC

Requirements

Requires the following cookbooks:

• 'tar', '~> 2'

This cookbook assumes a munge service is up and running and properly configured, if you are to run an image manager. See test/cookbooks/test/recipes/shifterimg_install.rb for more info.

Platforms

The following platforms are supported:

• Ubuntu (>= 14.04)
• Debian (>= 8.0)
• CentOS (>= 6)

Chef

• Chef 14.0+

TODO

• Add support for other options for udiRoot.conf config file

Usage

To have the shifter resources available to your cookbook just include cookbook 'shifter', '~> 0' in your Berksfile.

Resources

shifter_compile

Compiles shifter components from NERSC's git repo, by default.

shifter_install

Compiles shifter components, if they haven't been compiled already, and creates appropriate symlinks and config files for Shifter Runtime.

shifter_install_imagegw

Compiles shifter components, if they haven't been compiled already, and creates appropriate symlinks and config files for Shifter Image Gateway.

Attribute Name	Description
['shifter']['system']	Name of your system, e.g., edison or cori. This name must match a configured system in the imagegw. This is primarily used by shifterimg to self-identify which system it is representing.
['shifter']['imagegw_fqdn']	Space seperated URLs for your imagegw. Used by shifterimg and Slurm batch integration to communicate with the imagegw.

Authors

• Manuel Torrinha manuel.torrinha@tecnico.ulisboa.pt