Corteza is an open-source platform for building and running a variety of business applications. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process step-by-step on a Fedora server.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following:
The first step is to update your Fedora server to ensure that you have all the necessary packages and dependencies. To do this, run the following command:
sudo dnf update
Next, you need to install several dependencies required by Corteza. Run the following command to install them:
sudo dnf install git curl wget unzip htop
Corteza runs on top of Docker, so you need to install Docker on your Fedora server. Run the following commands to download and install Docker:
sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/docker-ce.repo
sudo dnf install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
Then, start and enable Docker to run at startup:
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
Verify that Docker is working by running:
sudo docker run hello-world
Now you're ready to download and install Corteza. Run the following command to clone the Corteza repository from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/cortezaproject/corteza-server.git
Change to the cloned directory:
cd corteza-server
Then, build and start the Corteza containers:
sudo make init
You can now access Corteza in your web browser by entering http://localhost:8099.
If you want to enable HTTPS access for Corteza, you need to create a self-signed SSL certificate. Run the following commands to create a new SSL directory and generate a self-signed certificate:
sudo mkdir /ssl
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /ssl/corteza.key -out /ssl/corteza.crt
Then, update the corteza.env file with the SSL certificate path by running:
echo "COMPOSE_FILE_LOCATION=$(pwd)/docker-compose.yml" >> corteza.env
echo "C_CR_CERT=/ssl/corteza.crt" >> corteza.env
echo "C_CR_KEY=/ssl/corteza.key" >> corteza.env
After making the above changes, rebuild and restart the Corteza containers:
sudo make rebuild
sudo make start
You can now access Corteza through HTTPS by browsing to https://localhost:443.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Corteza on a Fedora server. Corteza is now ready to use, and you can start building and running your business applications.
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