Concourse CI is an open-source platform that is used to build, test, and deploy applications continuously. It uses pipelines to define and track the progress of the build, test, and deployment stages. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Concourse on your Fedora Server Latest distribution.
Before starting the installation, you need to ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
Concourse CI requires Git to be installed on the system. To install Git, enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo dnf install git
Concourse CI requires a PostgreSQL database to run. To install PostgreSQL, enter the following command:
sudo dnf install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-libs postgresql-contrib
After the installation, start PostgreSQL and enable it to start on boot:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
Next, create a new database for Concourse and a user that will have access to it:
sudo su - postgres
psql
CREATE USER concourse WITH PASSWORD 'password';
CREATE DATABASE concourse OWNER concourse;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE concourse TO concourse;
\q
exit
Fly CLI is a command-line tool that is used to interact with your Concourse CI installation. To install Fly CLI, enter the following command:
sudo curl -L https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/download/v<version>/fly-<version>-linux-amd64.tgz | sudo tar xvz -C /usr/local/bin && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/fly
Note: Replace <version> with the version of Concourse that you want to install.
Create a directory where you want to install Concourse and navigate to it:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/concourse/bin
cd /opt/concourse/bin
Next, download the Concourse binary for your architecture:
sudo curl -L https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/download/v<version>/concourse-<version>-linux-amd64.tgz | sudo tar xvz
Note: Replace <version> with the version of Concourse that you want to install.
Create a new system user to run Concourse:
sudo useradd --system concourse
Copy the Concourse binary to the /usr/local/bin directory:
sudo cp concourse /usr/local/bin/
Create a directory for storing Concourse data:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/concourse/data
sudo chown concourse:concourse /opt/concourse/data
Create the configuration file for Concourse:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/concourse
sudo vi /etc/concourse/main.yml
Enter the following configuration:
concourse:
external_url: <your-concourse-url>
basic_auth:
username: <concourse-username>
password: <concourse-password>
postgresql:
data_source: postgres://concourse:password@localhost:5432/concourse?sslmode=disable
web:
oauth:
client_id: test
client_secret: test
flow_endpt_auth: http://localhost:8080/login
enable_global_oauth: true
Note: Replace <your-concourse-url>, <concourse-username>, and <concourse-password> with your desired values.
Start Concourse:
sudo su - concourse
concourse worker
Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080. You should be able to access the Concourse web interface.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Concourse CI on your Fedora Server Latest distribution. You can now define pipelines and start building, testing, and deploying your applications.
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