How to Install Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) on Fedora CoreOS

Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) is a Drupal distribution designed to create conference websites for organizing events, managing sessions, attendees, and sponsorships. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of COD on Fedora CoreOS.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you need to have the following:

Steps to Install COD on Fedora CoreOS

Follow the steps below to install COD on your Fedora CoreOS instance:

Step 1: Login to your Fedora CoreOS Instance

Login to your Fedora CoreOS instance using an SSH terminal. To do that, open a terminal and enter the following command:

ssh username@server-ip-address

Replace username with your username and server-ip-address with your server's IP address.

Step 2: Install Required Packages

Before installing COD on Fedora CoreOS, you need to install the required packages. Run the following command to install the required packages:

sudo dnf install git podman

Step 3: Install COD

Next, clone the COD repository from Github using the git command. Run the following command to clone the repository:

git clone --branch 8.x-1.x --recurse-submodules https://github.com/usecod/cod.git cod

This command will download the latest version of COD to your system.

Step 4: Run COD

Once COD is downloaded and installed, you can run it using podman. Use the following command to run COD:

cd cod && podman-compose up -d

This command will start the containers required to run COD.

Step 5: Access COD

COD will now be running on your Fedora CoreOS instance. You can access it using a web browser. Open your web browser and enter the IP address of your Fedora CoreOS instance followed by port 8000.

http://server-ip-address:8000

This will take you to the COD installation page. Follow the instructions and complete the installation process.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install COD on Fedora CoreOS. You learned the different steps required to install and configure COD on your system. Now you can use COD to create and manage conference websites with ease.

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