Ralph is an open-source asset management system that allows you to keep track of your physical assets such as servers, computers, and other equipment. It provides an easy-to-use web interface for managing your assets, generating reports, and monitoring their performance. Fedora CoreOS is a minimal and secure operating system that runs containerized applications. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ralph on Fedora CoreOS latest version.
To install Docker and Docker Compose on your Fedora CoreOS system, follow the steps below:
Update your system's package index by running the command:
sudo dnf update
Install Docker by running the command:
sudo dnf install docker
Start the Docker service and enable it to start on boot with the command:
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
Install Docker Compose by running the command:
sudo dnf install docker-compose
You may need to install the pip package manager first.
sudo dnf install python3-pip
Create a new directory where we’ll store the application files:
mkdir ralph
cd ralph
Clone Ralph’s Git repository by running the command below:
git clone https://github.com/allegro/ralph.git
To install Ralph, run the following Docker Compose command:
sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose-fedoraco.re.yaml up -d
This command will download and build Ralph’s Docker images, and then start the services in the background.
Creating network "ralph_default" with the default driver
Creating ralph-nginx-1 ... done
Creating ralph-db-1 ... done
Creating ralph-vars-1 ... done
Creating ralph-web-1 ... done
Creating ralph-worker-1 ... done
To verify that Ralph is running, run the following command:
sudo docker ps
This will list all Docker containers running on the system, including Ralph's services.
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
79(...)_nginx-1 allegro/ralph:52a6d44f6e90-nginx-alpine "nginx -g 'daemon of…" About a minute ago Up About a minute 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp ralph-nginx-1
(...)_vars-1 allegro/ralph:52a6d44f6e90-varnish "docker-entrypoint.s…" About a minute ago Up About a minute 80/tcp ralph-vars-1
(...)_db-1 allegro/ralph:52a6d44f6e90-postgres:13-alpine "docker-entrypoint.s…" About a minute ago Up About a minute 5432/tcp ralph-db-1
(...)_web-1 allegro/ralph:52a6d44f6e90-web "./run.sh" About a minute ago Up About a minute 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp ralph-web-1
(...)_worker-1 allegro/ralph:52a6d44f6e90-worker "./run.sh" About a minute ago Up About a minute ralph-worker-1
By default, Ralph listens on port 8000. Open your web browser and navigate to http://<ip_address>:8000.
Replace <ip_address> with the IP address of your Fedora CoreOS machine.
You will be prompted to create a new superuser. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up your account.
After creating your account, you will be redirected to the login page. Enter your credentials, and you will be logged in to Ralph.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Ralph on Fedora CoreOS Latest version. You can now start managing your assets using this powerful asset management system.
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