[ckan-discuss] Help to set up CKAN on CentOS

Fri Oct 4 11:04:33 BST 2013

Hi Iain,

Great to hear that you are starting to explore CKAN.

There are further community resources regarding installation on CentOS
on the GitHub wiki that might be useful:

https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/_pages

You might want to consider an automated deployment package to help you
run all the commands and manage tasks like the passwords you mention.

The CKAN team uses Ansible [1] internally, but other users from the
community have used Chef [2] and Puppet [3]. Search the mailing list
for examples of those.

Best,

Adrià

[1] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/
[2] http://www.opscode.com/chef/
[3] http://puppetlabs.com/

On 2 October 2013 03:52, Iain Elder <iainelder at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a newcomer to CKAN. Since learning about your project at FOSS4G 2013,
> I'm keen to set up a CKAN server in my own organization to simplify our data
> management work.
>
> I just successfully installed CKAN 2.1 from source on a Linode VPS running
> CentOS 6.2. Feels good!
>
> You can read all the commands I used to setup my CKAN server on Bitbucket:
> https://bitbucket.org/isme/linode/raw/6ccc6d145b20ee500e0f09c361a1b07824d8c8cc/install_ckan.txt
>
> The goal of the script is to install CKAN and all its dependencies on a
> fresh CentOS 6.2 distribution. I run each section by pasting it into a
> terminal.
>
> Most of the commands have been sourced from the official documentation:
> http://docs.ckan.org/lv/latest/install-from-source.html
> http://docs.ckan.org/lv/latest/getting-started.html
>
> I filled in the gaps from other sources on the web. Some URLs are in the
> script.
>
> The script isn't ready for production yet. I'm new to Linux work, so it's
> safe to assume I don't know what I'm doing.
>
> Is there anything obviously missing from my setup process? Anything you
> would recommend I do differently?
>
> I would like to completely automate the script, but I'm not sure how to
> handle the interactive sections where I type in a password for a new user.
>
> Thanks for your time, and thanks for developing this promising tool!
>
> Iain Elder
> iainelder at hotmail.co.uk
> 07714160586
>
>
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