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Quick Start Guide

This is a quickstart guide for users and new contributors to try and get familiar with SODA Foundation Release and its projects. It will help to install and try out the SODA Releases using the binaries with minimum configurations or settings.

*Note: *At present, this document also provides the installation steps to try out older OpenSDS releases. Soon, the support for old opensds releases shall be removed.**

To have more magement control on the installaton cofigurations, or to try out various configurations refer a detailed installation guide here

Quick Installation and experience of SODA releases

Install SODA v1.0.0 Faroe Release Jun 2020

Quick installation from SODA Faroe Release:

Prerequisite
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04
- root user rights is REQUIRED
- Make sure the following packages are installed or use the steps to install them.
- Install Basic Dependency:
  - apt-get update && apt-get install -y git make curl wget libltdl7 libseccomp2 libffi-dev gawk
- Install Docker
  - For Ubuntu 16.04:
  - wget https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/dists/xenial/pool/stable/amd64/docker-ce_18.06.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu_amd64.deb
  - For Ubuntu 18.04:
  - wget https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/dists/bionic/pool/stable/amd64/docker-ce_18.06.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu_amd64.deb
- dpkg -i docker-ce_18.06.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu_amd64.deb
- Install docker-compose:
  - curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.23.1/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  - chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
- Required golang version: 1.13.x
  - Run following command go version and check the version
  - If the required version is not installed on the system, install golang,1.13.9 using:
    - wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.13.9.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  - tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.13.9.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  - echo export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin >> /etc/profile
  - echo export GOPATH=$HOME/gopath >> /etc/profile
  - source /etc/profile
Get and Install Release Binaries
- wget https://github.com/sodafoundation/installer/releases/download/v1.0.0/installer-v1.0.0.tar.gz OR Download the installer binaries from
  https://github.com/sodafoundation/installer/releases/tag/v1.0.0
- tar xvzf installer-v1.0.0.tar.gz
- cd installer-v1.0.0/ansible/
- chmod +x ./install_ansible.sh && ./install_ansible.sh
- ansible –version # Ansible version 2.4.x is required
- The HOST_IP need to be set to the real_host_ip of your host (ex: 192.168.1.10 or 127.0.0.1 for localhost)
  - export HOST_IP =
  - vim group_vars/common.yml # Modify host_ip address if needed
Run the installer
- ansible-playbook site.yml -i local.hosts
- Note: If you want to clean up and test again, run
  - ansible-playbook clean.yml -i local.hosts -vvv
- and then run:
  - ansible-playbook site.yml -i local.hosts
How to do a quick test - Open Your Browser and use the http://< actual host ip>:8088 to access the SODA Dashboard (This IP should be the IP Address of the host if you have updated the config file) Ex: http://127.0.0.1:8088
- Use admin/opensds@123 credentials to login
- You will login to the UI Dashboard and you can verify the features through various menu options

Install SODA v0.20.0 Elba Release Apr 2020

Elba Release (First Release of SODA) : Refer the “How to use the Release” section of Elba Release Notes

ATTN: We are currently not supporting the older versions before Elba. However, if you have specific reasons to use older versions, please contact at #general slack channel of soda foundation slack