Sahara UI Installation Guide

Sahara UI is a plugin for OpenStack Dashboard. There are two ways to install it. One is to plug it into existing Dashboard installation and another is to setup another Dashboard and plug Sahara UI there. The first approach advantage is that you will have Sahara UI in the very same Dashboard with which you work with OpenStack. The disadvantage is that you have to tweak your Dashboard configuration in order to enable the plugin. The second approach does not have this disadvantage.

Further steps describe installation for the first approach. For the second approach see Sahara UI Dev Environment Setup

1. Prerequisites

1. OpenStack IceHouse installed.
2. Sahara installed, configured and running, see Sahara Installation Guide.

2. Sahara Dashboard Installation

1. Go to the machine where Dashboard resides and install Sahara UI there:

   For RDO:

$ sudo yum install python-django-sahara

Otherwise:

$ sudo pip install sahara-dashboard

This will install the latest stable release of Sahara UI. If you want to install the development version of Sahara UI do the following instead:

$ sudo pip install http://tarballs.openstack.org/sahara-dashboard/sahara-dashboard-master.tar.gz

Note that dev version might be broken at any time and also it might lose backward compatibility with Icehouse release at some point.

2. Configure OpenStack Dashboard. In settings.py add sahara to

HORIZON_CONFIG = {
    'dashboards': ('nova', 'syspanel', 'settings', ..., 'sahara'),

and also add saharadashboard to

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'saharadashboard',
    ....

Note: settings.py file is located in /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/ by default.

3. Now let’s switch to another file - local_settings.py. If you are using Neutron instead of Nova-Network add the following parameter there:

SAHARA_USE_NEUTRON = True

If you are using Nova-Network with auto_assign_floating_ip=False add the following parameter:

AUTO_ASSIGNMENT_ENABLED = False

Note: For RDO, the local_settings.py file is named local_settings and its absolute path is /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings, otherwise the file’s absolute path is /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py.

4. You also need to tell Sahara UI where it can find Sahara service. There are two ways to do that. First is to define Sahara endpoint in Keystone. The endpoint type must be data_processing:

keystone service-create --name sahara --type data_processing \
    --description "Sahara Data Processing"

keystone endpoint-create --service sahara --region RegionOne \
    --publicurl "http://10.0.0.2:8386/v1.1/\$(tenant_id)s" \
    --adminurl "http://10.0.0.2:8386/v1.1/\$(tenant_id)s" \
    --internalurl "http://10.0.0.2:8386/v1.1/\$(tenant_id)s"

While executing the commands above, don’t forget to change IP addresses and ports to the ones actual for your setup.

This approach might not work for you if your Keystone already has Sahara endpoint registered. This could be in DevStack and Fuel environments as both are capable to install Sahara and Sahara UI on their own. In that case use the second approach described below.

The second way to tell Sahara UI where Sahara service is deployed is to specify SAHARA_URL parameter in local_settings.py. For example:

SAHARA_URL = 'http://localhost:8386/v1.1'

5. The installation is complete. You need to restart the apache web server for the changes to take effect.

   For Ubuntu:

$ sudo service apache2 restart

For Centos:

$ sudo service httpd reload

Now if you log into Horizon you should see the Sahara menu available there.