So you think you're ready to start touching some code? We'll see about that...

Access OpenStack (aka Nebula)

The next few steps will involve familiarizing yourself with Nebula, our on-site OpenStack implementation.

Retrieve Your Nebula Password

Specify your AD username, then execute the following command to retrieve your Nebula password:

export AD_USERNAME=
sudo ssh ${AD_USERNAME}@public-linux.ncsa.illinois.edu cat /afs/ncsa/projects/openstack/etc/users/${AD_USERNAME}/password

Create an SSH Keypair

Log into Nebula and expand the Compute dropdown.

Select Access & Security, navigate to the Key Pairs tab, and click the Create Key Pair button.

Walk through the wizard to generate an SSH key pair.

Your browser should automatically download a private key (for example, key.pem).

Allocate a development VM

Choose a project at the top-middle of the page (we tend to use NDS-hackathon, but your choice will depend on which project you can access).

Choose Instances from the left side navbar.

Create a new Instance using the image entitled CoreOSAlpha.

Be sure to select a flavor (aka "machine size").

If you are unsure which to use, you likely should be using "large" or "medium".

Networking Gotchas

• DO NOT FORGET to associate an SSH key for this machine, or else you will never be able to get into it
• Remember to associate a Floating IP with this VM, so you can access it from outside of Nebula via 141.142.xxx.xxx
• Be sure to add Permissions to this VM:
  • remote SSH
  • remote HTTP
  • default

Create Necessary Accounts

Create an NCSA OpenSource Account

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These projects build up the Docker images deployed by NDSLabs.

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These specs are then fed by the NDSLabs NDS Labs API Server into the etcd instance that is run by Kubernetes.

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Check out the documentation for that project here: NDS Labs

Extra Credit

Useful Tutorials / Discussions:

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