Minoca OS automation with Sparrowdo

Introduction

Hello! Minoca is a new operating system for the world of connected devices. In this post I am going to show you how one can enable configuration management of running Minoca instances by the help of Sparrowdo.

Download the latest Minoca build

$ wget http://www.minocacorp.com/download/nightlies/latest-x86/Minoca-pc.zip
$ unzip Minoca-pc.zip

Start Minoca OS instance

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2000 -net nic,model=i82559er -net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22,hostfwd=tcp::8888-:80 -hda pc.img

Set up remote ssh access

Inside running Minoca instance:

$ opkg update 
$ opkg install openssh bash
$ /etc/init.d/sshd start
$ passwd # we will use this password when ssh-ing from the Host OS after `ssh-copy-id` gets run

Inside Host OS:

$ ssh-copy-id -p 2222 root@127.0.0.1
$ ssh -p 2222 root@127.0.0.1
$ exit

Create some Sparrowdo scenario

$ nano sparrowfile
use v6;
use Sparrowdo;
package-install ("nano", "zsh", "nginx");
user "alexey";
directory "/var/data/bar", %( owner => "alexey");
service-stop "nginx";
service-start "nginx";
http-ok %( port => 8888 );

Run Sparrowdo scenario for Minoca instance

$ sparrowdo --host=127.0.0.1 --ssh_user=root --ssh_port=2222 --no_sudo --sparrowfile=sparrowfile --bootstrap --format=production

The output:

running sparrow bootstrap for host: 127.0.0.1 ... 
bootstrap for minoca
Downloading http://www.minocacorp.com/packages/0.4/i686/main/Packages.gz.
Inflating http://www.minocacorp.com/packages/0.4/i686/main/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/main.
/usr/bin/curl
/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/cpanm
/usr/bin/sparrow
Outthentic is up to date. (0.3.9)
Sparrow is up to date. (0.2.48)
running sparrow tasks on 127.0.0.1 ... 
target OS is - minoca
push [task] install packages: nano zsh nginx OK
push [task] create user alexey OK
push [task] create directory /var/data/bar OK
push [task] stop service nginx OK
push [task] start service nginx OK
push [task] run bash: curl -fsSLk -D - --retry 3 127.0.0.1:8888 -o /dev/ ... OK
SPL file /opt/sparrow/sparrow.list is empty
get index updates from SparrowHub ... OK
set up task box file - /home/melezhik/.sparrowdo//opt/sparrow/task-box.json - OK
public@package-generic is uptodate (0.3.7)
public@user is uptodate (0.2.1)
public@directory is uptodate (0.1.4)
public@service is uptodate (0.1.13)
public@bash is uptodate (0.1.6)
running task box from /opt/sparrow/sparrow-cache/task-box.json ... 
2017-09-21 02:27:12 : [task] install packages: nano zsh nginx [path] modules/opkg/ [params] action:install package:nano
2017-09-21 02:27:12 : [task] install packages: nano zsh nginx [path] modules/opkg/ [params] action:install package:zsh
2017-09-21 02:27:12 : [task] install packages: nano zsh nginx [path] modules/opkg/ [params] action:install package:nginx
2017-09-21 02:27:13 : [task] create user alexey [path] modules/create/
2017-09-21 02:27:13 : [task] create directory /var/data/bar [path] modules/create/
2017-09-21 02:27:14 : [task] stop service nginx [path] modules/stop/ [params] os:minoca service:nginx
2017-09-21 02:27:14 : [task] start service nginx [path] modules/start/ [params] os:minoca service:nginx
2017-09-21 02:27:14 : [task] run bash: curl -fsSLk -D - --retry 3 127.0.0.1:8888 -o /dev/ ... [path] modules/bash-command/ [params] envvars: