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fabric8 is an open source microservices platform based on Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins
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fabric8 v2 installation support #3888

Closed ramesh-mohan-reddy closed 9 years ago

ramesh-mohan-reddy commented 9 years ago

Hi

We are trying to install fabric8 v2, and we found that jube and openshift are 2 ways to get started with fabric8 v2 as per http://fabric8.io/guide/getStarted.html We would like to if openshift is mandatory to have fabric8 v2 running or docker/kubernetes installation would do to consider fabric8 v2?

Any article that mentions step by step instructions to install fabric8 v2 without openshift? Also, it would be helpful to know that if we want to call fabric8 v2 so, what are components that we need to have installed? And what relationship that fabric8 v2 has with docker/ kubernetes?

Thanks in advance Ramesh

jstrachan commented 9 years ago

Hi @ramesh-mohan-reddy

Sorry things are so confusing on our website right now! We're working hard at the moment migrating to the latest greatest kubernetes / openshift releases; and to create a single json file for different deployment options of fabric8:

when that release is out; hopefully in a week or so - then given a kubernetes installation; whether thats done by hand using Kubernetes itself or its RHEL Atomic or OpenShift V3 or Google cloud; then it'll be a single command line command to install and run it all.

e.g. using the 'osc' command line tool in OpenShift it would be something like

osc process -f thefabric8file.json | osc create -f -

and thats it!

In general fabric8 v2 now sits on top of the kubernetes model and REST API. So you need some kubernetes installation of some kind; either

There's also Jube which is a pure Java version of kubernetes. Its much simpler than kubernetes and intended really for running Java stuff only really; it can't run docker containers or do any of the nice docker container stuff (isolation, CPU/IO/Memory limiting etc) or the kubernetes networking stuff (IP address per pod and service etc) but is there really for folks who can't run Linux and want to provision java processes in a kubernetes-like way.

If you possibly can run docker and linux then we highly recommend the real kubernetes to Jube; its way more powerful and can run any docker container etc. Jube is more for folks who are on legacy operating systems or can't yet use Docker

ramesh-mohan-reddy commented 9 years ago

Thanks James for a detailed explanation No worries, I understand how best we have been trying to contribute to community.

Now, I understand that fabric8 v2 needs kubernetes and docker running, so I would like to know where I can get fabric8 v2 as an installable?

jstrachan commented 9 years ago

everything in fabric8 v2 is available as a docker container, kubernetes json and jube image zips.

Here's now to install it currently: http://fabric8.io/guide/openShiftDocker.html

we should have a one liner you can run on top of any kubernetes / openshift environment next week when we get 2.1.0 out...

jstrachan commented 9 years ago

I've added some better install instructions which we'll merge into the website once 2.1.0 is out... https://github.com/jstrachan/fabric8/blob/docs-2.1.x/docs/fabric8OnOpenShift.md

jstrachan commented 9 years ago

FWIW 2.1.1 is out with the updated installation instructions: http://fabric8.io/guide/getStarted.html

in particular http://fabric8.io/guide/fabric8OnOpenShift.html

jstrachan commented 9 years ago

I think we can close this one now - let us know if not; we can always reopen again