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ElastiCluster_ aims to provide a user-friendly command line tool to create, manage and setup computing clusters hosted on cloud infrastructures (like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, Google Compute Engine, or a private OpenStack_ cloud). Its main goal is to get your own private cluster up and running with just a few commands; this video_ demoes ElastiCluster setting up a computational batch-queueing cluster.

Complete documentation for ElastiCluster is available on the Read The Docs <http://elasticluster.readthedocs.org/>_ website. General discussion over ElastiCluster's usage, features, and bugs takes place on the [email protected] <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elasticluster>_ mailing-list (only subscribers can post).

The ElastiCluster_ project was initially an effort of the Services and Support for Science IT_ (S3IT) unit at the University of Zurich, licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. Since 2020 it is no longer maintained nor supported by S3IT or the University of Zurich.

Features

ElastiCluster_ is in active development, and offers the following features at the moment:

• INI-style configuration file to define cluster templates
• Can start and manage multiple independent clusters at the same time
• Automated setup of:
• HPC clusters using SLURM_ or GridEngine_ (incl. support for CUDA-enabled GPUs);
• Spark_ / Hadoop_ clusters with HDFS and Hive/SQL;
• distributed storage clusters using GlusterFS_, OrangeFS_, or Ceph_;
• ...or anything that you can install with an Ansible_ playbook!
• Growing and shrinking a running cluster.

ElastiCluster_ is currently in active development: please use the GitHub issue tracker to file enhancement requests and ideas, or the mailing-list for discussion.

We appreciate pull requests for new features and enhancements. Please use the master branch as starting point.

Quickstart

The simplest way to run ElastiCluster is to use the official Docker image. If you cannot or want not to use Docker, please see alternate installation instructions on ElastiCluster's Read The Docs <http://elasticluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html>_ website.

To install ElastiCluster over Docker: (1) download the elasticluster.sh_ script script into a file elasticluster.sh, then (2) type this at your terminal prompt::

chmod +x elasticluster.sh

That's it! You can now check that ElastiCluster is ready by running::

elasticluster.sh --help

The first time it is run, the elasticluster.sh_ script will check if Docker is installed, and ask for permission to install it if Docker is not found. Follow the on-screen instructions; see section Getting Help_ if you're in trouble.

You can also rename file elasticluster.sh to elasticluster, if you so like, to be consistent with the rest of the documentation.

.. _elasticluster.sh: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster/master/elasticluster.sh

Alternatively, you can also perform both steps at the terminal prompt::

# use this if the `wget` command is installed
wget -O elasticluster.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster/master/elasticluster.sh
chmod +x elasticluster.sh

# use this if the `curl` command is installed instead
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster/master/elasticluster.sh
chmod +x elasticluster.sh

Choose either one of the two methods above, depending on whether wget or curl is installed on your system (Linux systems normally have wget; MacOSX normally uses curl).

After ElastiCluster is installed, run this command to deploy an example configuration file_::

elasticluster list-templates

The configuration file is located in .elasticluster/config; adjust it to your liking using the configuration reference__.

.. __: http://elasticluster.readthedocs.io/en/master/configure.html

More example configurations for popular cluster types can be found in the examples/__ directory.

.. __: https://github.com/elasticluster/elasticluster/tree/master/examples

Getting help

For anything concerning ElastiCluster, including trouble running the installation script, please send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>_ or post a message on the web forum <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elasticluster>_. Include the full output of the script in your email, in order to help us to identify the problem.

.. References

References should be sorted by link name (case-insensitively), to make it easy to spot a missing or duplicate reference.

.. _Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud EC2: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ .. _Ansible: https://ansible.com/ .. _CentOS: http://www.centos.org/ .. _Ceph: http://ceph.com/ .. _Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org .. _elasticluster: http://gc3-uzh-ch.github.io/elasticluster/ .. _example configuration file: https://github.com/elasticluster/elasticluster/blob/master/elasticluster/share/etc/config.template .. _enhancement requests and ideas: https://github.com/elasticluster/elasticluster/issues .. _Ganglia: http://ganglia.info .. _GC3 Hobbes cloud: http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/infrastructure/hobbes .. _github elasticluster repository: https://github.com/elasticluster/elasticluster .. _github: https://github.com/ .. _GlusterFS: http://www.gluster.org/ .. _GNU General Public License version 3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html .. _Google Compute Engine: https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine .. _Grid Computing Competence Center: http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/ .. _GridEngine: http://gridengine.info .. _Hadoop: http://hadoop.apache.org/ .. _IPython cluster: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/parallel/ .. _mailing-list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elasticluster .. _OpenStack: http://www.openstack.org/ .. _OrangeFS: http://orangefs.org/ .. _pip: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip .. _python virtualenv: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv .. _Python: http://www.python.org .. _Services and Support for Science IT: http://www.s3it.uzh.ch/ .. _Spark: http://spark.apache.org/ .. _SLURM: https://slurm.schedmd.com/ .. _TORQUE+MAUI: http://www.adaptivecomputing.com/products/open-source/torque/ .. _Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com .. _University of Zurich: http://www.uzh.ch .. _video: http://youtu.be/cR3C7XCSMmA

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