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Start the Elasticsearch boxes

• In your terminal

cd <boink repo>/machines
vagrant up

• In your favorite browser, navigate to http://vimes.boink.io:9200/_plugin/marvel.
• You should see a cluster named elasticsearch with three nodes and a status of green.

Build the elasticsearch boxes

Building the EliasGoldberg/centos6 boxes was kind of a process. It is detailed below.

Setup VirtualBox

• Download latest VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
• Run the installer.

Setup a new VM

• Download the Centos6 minimal ISO from http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/.
• Open VirtualBox and click the New button at the upper left.
  • name: centos6
  • memory size: 2048
  • file size: 20 GB
  • settings -> general -> advanced -> shared clipboard: bidirectional
  • settings -> general -> advanced -> drag'nDrop: Bidirectional
• Start the VM. When asked, browse to the minimal Centos6 ISO.

Setup Vagrant

• Download Vagrant from http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html.
• In your terminal

vagrant plugin install landrush

Install Centos6

• Choose the following options:
  • language: english
  • root password: vagrant

Setup Centos6 Networking

• Login to the VM as root
• In the VM bash shell

useradd vagrant
passwd vagrant
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# change ONBOOT to yes
service network start
yum update # this also tests if we have internet access.
shutdown -r now
yum update kernel # this also tests if we have internet access after the reboot.

Install Guest Additions

• Download guest additions from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.28/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.28.iso. (Double check the VirtualBox version.)
• In the VM bash shell

yum install -y gcc make kernel-revel bzip2 perl
yum install -y kernel-devel-2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64

• Go to Devices -> CD/DVD Devices -> Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file.
• Pick VBox_Guest_Additions.
• In the VM bash shell

cd /mnt
mkdir cdrom && mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd cdrom && ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
shutodwn -r now

Install Java

• Download 64-bit JRE from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html.
• Go to settings, Shared Folders, Hit the plus icon.
• Browse to the directory containing the jre and choose auto mount and make permanent.
• In the VM bash shell

usermod -a -G vboxsf vagrant

• Shutdown the VM and restart the VirtualBox app.
• In the VM bash shell

cp /media/sf_share/jre-8u45-linux-x64.rpm ~
chmod a+x jre-8u45-linux-x64.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh jre-8u45-linux-x64.rpm

Setup Vagrant tools

• In the VM bash shell

yum install -y openssh-clients man git vim wget curl ntp nano
chkconfig ntpd on && chkconfig sshd on
sed -i -e 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/selinux/config
sed -i 's/^\(Defaults.*requiretty\)/#\1/' /etc/sudoers
echo 'vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
mkdir /home/vagrant/.ssh && chmod 700 /home/vagrant/.ssh
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub -O /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant
shutdown -h now

Build the Vagrant package

• In your host terminal

cd ~
mkdir centos6
vagrant package --output $HOME/centos6.box --base centos6

• Login to https://atlas.hashicorp.com/
• Goto https://atlas.hashicorp.com/EliasGoldberg/boxes/centos6. (Use your name instead of EliasGoldberg.)
• Click +New Version on left of screen and follow wizard.

Setting up ElasticSearch

At a high level, this is what you need to do to install elasticsearch:

• Open up the ElasticSearch ports using iptables.
• Set up the ElasticSearch yum repo.
• Use yum to install ElasticSearch.
• Add clustering settings to the elasticsearch.yml file.
• Configure ElasticSearch to start automatically.
• Start ElasticSearch

You can find the exact shell commands to setup ElasticSearch at the bottom of machines/Vagrantfile.