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Pre-requisites Operating System: Support any standard Linux distribution (Ubuntu LTS 14.04) Database: MongoDB Web Server: Trinidad Dev Tools: JRuby development enviroment with necessary gems Others: git, make, openjdk7, etc., Setting up Update your linux to get all the latest distributions apt-get install updates 1. Install pre-requisites apt-get install -y git make mongodb openjdk-7-jre-headless g++ isc-dhcp-server ipxe tftp tftpd curl 2. Install ruby environment with your preferred Ruby environment manager like rvm or rbenv (I prefer using rvm) and setup jruby as your default environment \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby=jruby source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm rvm use jruby --default 3. Setup Hanlon working directory (My preferred location ~/wspace/hanlon) and clone hanon git repository cd mkdir wspace git clone https://github.com/csc/Hanlon.git hanlon 4. Install / update ruby gems cd hanlon bundle install gem install bundler trinidad 5. Run trinida...

The CSC Open Source Program launched today with the first production ready version of Hanlon, a node provisioning solution. It is a major rewrite of the Razor project, which was originally written by Tom McSweeney and Nick Weaver two years ago, with an improved architecture and design. For people not familiar with Razor, Razor is an automated, policy driven OS provisioning and node control solution for both bare metal and virtual machines provisioning. A detailed overview can be found in Nick's blog . Tom McSweeney and Nick Weaver , who originally built Razor during their EMC days, launched it as open source through Puppet Labs , which grabbed a lot of attention from the community. A detailed history of Razor and the events that lead to the birth of Hanlon can be found in Tom McSweeney's Hanlon announcement blog . Coming back to Hanlon, Hanlon is released as two open source projects : Hanlon (the web server component to manage Hanlon nodes) and the Hanlon-Microke...