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Install and configure

Install and configure¶

This section describes how to install and configure the Backup service, code-named freezer-api, on the controller node.

This section assumes that you already have a working OpenStack environment with at least the following components installed: .. Keystone

Note that installation and configuration vary by distribution.

  • Install and configure database
  • Install and configure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
    • Prerequisites
    • Install and configure components
    • Start elasticsearch
    • Using freezer-manage
    • create the mappings
    • run simple instance
    • examples running using uwsgi
    • example running freezer-api with apache2
    • Install and configure freezer-scheduler/agent
    • Configure the scheduler
    • Finalize installation
  • Install and configure for Ubuntu
    • Prerequisites
    • Install and configure components
    • Start elasticsearch
    • Using freezer-manage
    • create the mappings
    • run simple instance
    • examples running using uwsgi
    • example running freezer-api with apache2
    • Install and configure freezer-scheduler/agent
    • Configure the scheduler
    • Finalize installation
$ git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/freezer-api.git
$ cd freezer-api
$ python3 -m pip install -e .
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