Development

This section describes how to deploy a DISCOS development environment.

The development environment currently consists of a single machine:

Even though the deployment system supports multiple machines and clusters, the development setup is intentionally minimal.

Command syntax

discos-deploy <target>:<environment> [options]

In development environments, the --station option is required when deploying DISCOS software.

To deploy the development environment:

$ discos-deploy manager:development --docker

This will:

$ discos-deploy manager:development

This will create and provision a virtual machine using Vagrant.

If the target machine already exists (physical or virtual), you can deploy directly onto it:

$ discos-deploy manager:development --no-vagrant

The machine must be reachable via SSH.

The deployment system supports clusters of machines through Ansible inventories.

In the development environment, however, only the manager machine is defined.

For multi-machine deployments, refer to Production.

The deployment procedure:

The process is idempotent: running it multiple times produces the same result.

To download the DISCOS control software:

$ discos-get master --station SRT

Then build and install:

$ make
$ make install

The deployment procedure can also install DISCOS automatically:

$ discos-deploy manager:development --branch discos1.0-rc02 --station Noto

This will:

The --station argument is required in development environments, since machines are generic and not tied to a specific station.