Objective

Learn how to set up a machine on Rackspace.

Steps

Create an account on Rackspace
Create a machine
1. Specify which image to use and which flavor
2. Save the provided password
Connect to the Machine using the saved password
Download the pre-requisites, the installer & run the Installer pre script on Rackspace Machine

Step 1: Create an account on Rackspace

Begin by Creating a Rackspace account → Click Here.
- Follow the steps of Rackspace wizard

Step 2: Create a machine

Click on Servers → Create Resources → Cloud servers
Specify the machine image type, OS and version: Linux - Ubuntu - 16.04 LTS(Xenial Xerus)
Specify the flavor: 7.5 GB Compute v1
Click Create Server
Save the password to use it for establishing the connection
Wait till the server gets ready
Use the ssh to log into your server

Create the machine

Running machine

Step 3: Connect to the Machine on your Local Machine

Connect to the Machine

# connect to the machine using the IP address and the saved password
> ssh root@machine-Ip-address

Step 4: Download the pre-requisites, the installer & run the Installer pre script on Rackspace Machine

Once you SSH to the machine, you can download and run the installer pre installation script to get all the dependencies so that cloud deployment works.

Prepare the machine

Download & Run SOAJS Installer pre scripts

# download update apt-get, npm and zip
> sudo su
> apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
> apt-get install npm
> apt-get install zip

# download the latest version of nodejs
> curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash && apt-get install -y nodejs

Configure the firewall rules

> ufw default deny
> ufw allow ssh/tcp
> ufw allow 30080/tcp
> ufw allow 2376/tcp
> ufw allow 2377/tcp
> ufw allow 32017/tcp
> ufw --force enable

Download Docker Certificates

Zip and Download the generated docker certificates from the above step to your local machine.

zip certificates

> cd ~
> zip -r certs.zip certs/*
> mv ~/certs.zip /home/ubuntu/

From here on, use the installer from your local machine to deploy SOAJS on the remote machine you created.

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